Utah is the first U.S. state this year to ban most minors from receiving body-altering transgender surgeries or puberty blockers.
Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed the legislation on Jan. 28, after the measure, SB16, received final approval by the state Senate a day earlier on a 20–8 vote; two Republican state senators joined with the chamber’s six Democrats in voting against the bill. The House voted 58–14 earlier in the week to pass the proposal.
