New legislation will protect minors from irreversible procedures to change their gender identity

The Tennessee General Assembly is at the forefront of a fight to protect minors from irreversible elective procedures to identify as a gender different from their biological sex. New legislation filed proposes the strongest protections in the nation to prohibit physicians from removing healthy body parts on minors or medical interventions that alter a child’s hormonal balance.

These practices are experimental and have serious long term physical and mental health consequences for children. I am...