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Maine Bill Would Take Children From Parents Who Refuse ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

The new bill would also allow for someone to take a transgender-identifying child away from a parent and bring them to Maine for surgery and hormones.
Maine Bill Would Take Children From Parents Who Refuse ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
The Maine state capitol building in Augusta, Maine, in this file photo. Josh Lintz/FormulaNone
Jackson Elliott
1/22/2024|Updated: 1/22/2024
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A new Maine bill is proposing to carve out a new category of child abuse in its state law books—it would be illegal for a parent to deny their child gender-reassignment procedures, including puberty-blocking hormones and surgery.

Under the bill, H.P. 1114, courts can receive temporary emergency jurisdiction of any child in Maine if the child is abandoned, threatened, abused, or “because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care.”
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