COWBOY STATE DAILY – The Wyoming legislature on Thursday passed a bill banning minors from receiving transgender treatments in the state. With the governor’s signature, Sen. Anthony Bouchard’s “Chloe’s Law” legislation will take effect July 1.
The Senate voted to pass Senate File 99, formerly called “Chloe’s Law,” 28-2 vote on concurrence Thursday afternoon.
Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, was the only Republican to oppose the bill. Sen. Mike Gierau, D-Jackson, voted for it while Sen. Chris Rothfuss, D-Laramie, opposed it.
A member of the Legislature since 2017, Bouchard hadn’t before passed a bill he was the lead sponsor on, and he said it feels good to get this one through.
“I tend to not introduce ‘run-of-the-mill’ legislation,” Bouchard said. “A bill of this magnitude is what my constituents expect from me. It’s great to deliver for them.”
The bill, now titled Children Gender Change Prohibition, prohibits medical professionals from providing gender-change treatments and surgeries to minors in Wyoming in most situations.
The bill also allows for various medical boards to revoke licenses for nurses and pharmacists who break it.
“This bill stops medical providers from mutilating children and prohibits the use of pharmaceuticals to alter normal adolescent development,” Bouchard said. “The real victims, all minors, were never told how they would face a lifetime of medical complications.”
SF 99 was originally called Chloe’s Law, but had its name changed during the legislative process.
It was named after Chloe Cole, a California activist who detransitioned as a teenager and expressed deep regret about having transitioned from being a girl to a boy …
