The bill prohibits transgender surgery for those under 18 and bars hormone treatments for minors who have not yet been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, defended the bill last week on Meet the Press, saying he wants more research into these treatments.
“We take power away from (parents) on a lot of things involving our young people. If there is potential long-term harm for our kids, we need to find that,” Cox said, according to NBC. “And what Utah did was just push pause until we get better data.”
