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Tennessee Senate Passes Bill Making "Recruiting" For Trans Youth Care A Felony
(www.erininthemorning.com)
AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, provide that an adult who recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure that is for the purpose of enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured commits a Class C felony.
This amendment does not apply to: (i) a parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor; (ii) an adult who has permission from the unemancipated minor's parent or legal guardian; or (iii) the provision of a medical diagnosis described in the law relevant to medical procedures for minors. Additionally, it is not a defense to prosecution under this amendment that the unemancipated minor consented to the actions.
While it's still a bill to generate trans panic, and fuck them 100% for that, I still feel it's important to be angry at the right things.
This bill only targets people who would do something like this to a child without a legal guardian's permission.
I don't really believe that it's happening enough to make a fucking law about it, if at all. But fuck them still.