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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Youth sex-change-surgery ban clears another hurdle
Saying youth should be given time to address mental-health issues before making decisions that can negatively impact their health for decades, members of a House committee have advanced legislation to make it illegal for medical officials to perform transgender surgeries on children.Ray Carter | April 12, 2023
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
In Oklahoma speech, Chinese-American pediatrician calls for strengthening parental rights
As a longtime pediatrician in Washington state, Dr. Erica Li does not doubt that some individuals—“a very small percentage”—have gender-identity disorder that persists into adulthood.Ray Carter | April 3, 2023
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
House votes to ban sex-change surgeries for children
Children could not be subjected to sex-reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers, or cross-sex hormones as a treatment for gender dysphoria under legislation that has received overwhelming support in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.Ray Carter | February 28, 2023
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
OU medical school embracing toxic ideology
Oklahomans deserve to know exactly how far the state’s medical schools have gone down this radical road.Stanley Goldfarb, M.D. | February 20, 2023
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
OCPA praises House lawmakers for protecting children and teens
OCPA President Jonathan Small today praised members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for advancing legislation from committee that would prevent children from undergoing sex-reassignment surgeries, cross-sex hormones, or puberty blockers, before age 18. The bill also barred state funds from paying for youth to undergo those procedures.Staff | February 17, 2023
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Oklahoma House committee approves ban on youth sex-change surgeries
Voting only hours after a similar ban had passed the Oklahoma Senate, members of a state House committee approved legislation that would make it illegal to perform sex-reassignment surgeries on youth or provide cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to children.Ray Carter | February 16, 2023
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Senate passes ban on sex-change surgeries for youth
Members of the Oklahoma Senate voted overwhelmingly to make it illegal to perform sex-reassignment surgeries on children or provide cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers to underage patients.Ray Carter | February 15, 2023
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Health Care
Price-transparent Oklahoma doctors attracting medical tourism
Early in his career, Dr. Keith Smith noted that hospitals were “constantly poor-mouthing, saying, ‘We’re going broke,’” yet those same hospitals constantly had cranes in front of them due to expansion. And self-contradiction was not the worst thing happening at those hospitals.Ray Carter | December 5, 2022
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Education, Health Care
Stitt: Oklahoma students not required to get COVID vax
Although the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has endorsed adding the COVID-19 vaccine to childhood immunization schedules, Gov. Kevin Stitt said the vaccine will not be required for public-school attendance in Oklahoma.Ray Carter | October 21, 2022
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Health Care, Law & Principles
Child-transgender limits headed to governor
Legislation that supporters said would force the closure of a clinic that provides puberty blockers and transgender-surgery services to Oklahoma children won easy approval in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.Ray Carter | September 29, 2022