On Monday, The Carolina Journal reported that the North Carolina House of Representatives pass HB 808.

The summary of the bill states:

BILL ANALYSIS: The bill would prohibit healthcare practitioners from providing or referring out surgical gender transition procedures to minors.

“Surgical gender transition procedure” would be defined to mean any surgical service that (i) alters or removes physical or anatomical characteristics typical for an individual’s biological sex or (ii) instills or creates physiological or anatomical characteristics that resemble a sex different from an individual’s biological sex if those services are provided to effectuate a gender transition.

“Gender transition” would be defined as the process in which a person goes from identifying with and living as a gender that corresponds to his or her biological sex to identifying with and living as a gender different from his or her biological sex.

Unfortunately there does not seem to be anything in this bill that prevents non-surgical gender transition treatment.

It really is time to get off of this bandwagon. Transition is a trend that is doing serious damage to our children, our families, and our social fabric. Gender dysphoria is a mental illness and should be treated as such. A teenager going through the ravages of puberty will not be any happier going through puberty as the opposite sex. If a person over the age of eighteen (actually, since you can’t drink or smoke until you are 21, shouldn’t you have to wait until 21 to mutilate your body?) wants to undergo a sex change, okay, but they should understand the long-term ramifications before they do. We have all heard the stories of the thirty-year olds who transitioned when they were 18 and now regret it. Those stories need to be shared more often in order to let teenagers know that transitioning is serious and generally is forever.