On Monday, Nevada’s Republican Governor Joe Lombardo signed a bill that forces insurance companies to pay for minors to get sex changes as long as the procedure is “recommended by a psychologist, psychiatrist or other mental health professional” as well as a physician.
“I implore people to read the bill in its entirety,” he told a reporter on Tuesday. “And you will see it’s not as draconian or detrimental or immoral as people are portraying it to be.”
According to Nevada Current , Lombardo also signed a bill that requires the state’s Department of Corrections to develop regulations around the housing of transgender inmates as well as providing medical and mental health care for them.
In a statement, Democratic state Senator Melanie Scheible said, “At a time when states across the country are passing draconian laws to restrict trans and nonbinary people’s right to exist, Nevada is doing the opposite.”Lombardo stopped […]
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