（人が）群がるs decry gender-断言するing 治療 禁止（する） in West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - （人が）群がるs at the West Virginia 明言する／公表する （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 pleaded with 国会議員s Thursday to show as much compassion for saving the lives of transgender children as they showed for unborn fetuses when they 投票（する）d to 禁止（する） abortion just months ago.
Over and over, dozens of doctors, parents and LGBTQ people told the 共和国の／共和党の supermajority during a 審理，公聴会 that a 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 禁止（する） gender-断言するing care for 青年 would put children's lives at 危険. West Virginia is の中で 26 明言する／公表するs considering 禁止（する）s to 制限する gender-断言するing care for minors or young adults, with the most 最近の 活動／戦闘 存在 in South Dakota and in Utah, where the 共和国の／共和党の 知事 just 調印するd that 明言する／公表する's 法案 into 法律. A 裁判官 is reviewing whether to strike 負かす／撃墜する Arkansas' 法律 after 一時的に 封鎖するing it last year.
Transgender and gender nonconforming children 試みる／企てる 自殺 at a 不均衡な high 率, and West Virginia has the largest per capita 全住民 of transgender 青年 in the nation.
"You all like to use rhetoric about not 殺人，大当り children as a justification for passing 法律制定, as you did this summer. You will kill children if you pass this," said the Rev. Jenny Williams, a 部隊d Methodist 牧師 in Preston 郡. "If you …に反対する the 殺人，大当り of children like you say you do, I would hope that you 適用する your 主要な／長／主犯s 終始一貫して."
多重の people told 国会議員s they would have 血 on their 手渡すs if they 前進する the 法案 to 禁止（する） gender-断言するing 治療s for minors, which has moved out of two House 委員会s and is now up for consideration before the 十分な House of 委任する／代表s. West Virginia has a 共和国の／共和党の 知事 and one of the largest 共和国の／共和党の 大多数s in any 明言する／公表する 立法機関 in the country, and the 法律制定 has a high chance of becoming 法律.
Some of the handful of 国会議員s in 出席 watched attentively, others looked at their phones or laptops or 回避するd their 注目する，もくろむs. People were given one minute to talk before they were 削減（する） off and told to sit 負かす／撃墜する. Almost 80 people spoke against the 法案. Two spoke in support.
Cricket Hall speaks against a 法案 that would 禁止（する） gender-断言するing 外科 and hormone therapy for minors at the 明言する／公表する （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 in Charleston, W.Va., Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
Paula Lepp, who said she is a Christian parent of a Christian transgender child, told 国会議員s she believes the 法案 is contrary to the teachings of Jesus to care for the most marginalized.
"The 底（に届く） line is this: I would rather have a live daughter than a dead son, and this 法案 puts that at 危険," she said.
共和国の／共和党のs in other 明言する／公表するs who have moved to 限界 接近 to the 治療s for minors have often characterized the 治療s as medically unproven and 潜在的に dangerous in the long 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, as another political 戦う／戦い against 自由主義の ideologies. They also say 十代の少年少女s shouldn´t を受ける irreversible 外科s.
Braden Roten, one of the two people who spoke in support of the 法案, 勧めるd 国会議員s to look past the （人が）群がるs of people who showed up to speak against it and think about what 保守的なs would want.
"にもかかわらず the （人が）群がる …に反対するing this 法案, this is a red 明言する／公表する and there´s a big 押し進める in the 保守的な movement for this 法案," he said, as people watching from the 議会 galleries and 床に打ち倒す booed. "If you don´t 投票（する） on this 法案 we will 投票（する） you out."
At least 88 法案s 捜し出すing to 制限する gender 断言するing care for minors or young adults have been introduced across 26 明言する／公表するs. West Virginia´s 手段 禁じるs gender-断言するing 外科 and hormone therapy for 青年.
Many doctors, mental health specialists and 医療の groups have argued that 治療s for young transgender people are 安全な and 有益な, though rigorous long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 研究 is 欠如（する）ing. 連邦の health 公式の／役人s have 述べるd the gender-断言するing care as 決定的な to the health and wellbeing of transgender children and adolescents.
Charleston pedi atric 内科医 Dr. Allison Holstein spoke Thursday on に代わって of West Virginia 一時期／支部 the American 学院 of Pediatrics. She said the 法案 干渉するs with doctors ability to 供給する the best 医療の care to their 患者s.
"The 法案 is dangerous, it´s an 侵入占拠 on the 内科医-患者 関係," she said. "The 試みる／企てる to 挿入する politics into 医療の practice are troubling and very 関心ing."
Staff from the Women´s Health 中心 of West Virginia - 以前は West Virginia's only abortion provider, before the 手続き was 事実上 無法者d - also spoke against the 法案. The clinic, which 申し込む／申し出s services predominately to low-income people on Medicaid, began 申し込む／申し出ing gender-断言するing hormone therapy when abortion was banned.
(n)役員／(a)執行力のある Director Katie Qui?onez read a 声明 on に代わって of a transgender man who said 事前の to coming out as transgender, he 試みる／企てるd 自殺 four times. The first time he was 12.
"If you're so プロの／賛成の-life, why are you trying to kill trans kids?" Quinonez said.
Women's Health 中心 Communications Director Kaylen Barker, who is a member of the LGBTQ community, said she's tired of having to come to the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 to 正当化する her 存在 and the experiences of people she loves.
"Leave us alone," Barker cried. "Find something useful to do with your time, like 直す／買収する，八百長をする the damn roads."
Emily Beane, a transgender woman, speaks at a public 審理，公聴会 against a 法案 that would 禁止（する） gender-断言するing 外科 and hormone therapy for minors at the West Virginia 明言する／公表する （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 in Charleston, W.Va., on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
House 司法の Chairman Moore Capito 統括するs over a public 審理，公聴会 on a 法案 that would 禁止（する） minors from 接近ing gender-断言するing 外科 and hormone therapy at the West Virginia 明言する／公表する （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 in Charleston, W.Va., Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
