New regulations in Nebraska require trans youth seeking gender-affirming care to wait seven days to start puberty blocking medications or hormone treatments
FILE - Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen arrives to give the State of the State address at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln on Jan. 25, 2023. Nebraska is requiring transgender youth starting gender-affirming care to wait a week to begin puberty blockers or hormone treatments under new state health department regulations. The state Department of Health and Human Services announced that Pillen had signed off on the emergency regulations today, Sunday, Oct. 1.
“The law went into effect today, which is when the emergency regulations were put in place,” department spokesperson Jeff Powell said in an email Sunday to The Associated Press. “Nothing was slow-walked.”remain in effect while the department takes public comments on a permanent set of rules. The agency said it plans to release a proposed final version by the end of October and then have a public hearing on Nov. 28 in Lincoln, the state capital.
During the signing ceremony for the new Nebraska law, Pillen suggested that children and their parents who seek gender-affirming treatment are being “duped,” adding, “that is absolutely Lucifer at its finest.” The state's chief medical officer, Dr. Timothy Tesmer, is a Pillen appointee.
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