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Health-care providers, LGBTQ advocates tell Senate HB 96 provisions would harm trans Ohioans
Summary
Multiple health-care professionals, transgender-led groups and families testified that several provisions in the House-passed version of HB 96—definitions declaring only two sexes, restrictions on gender-affirming care, and limits on youth shelter services—would harm patients, conflict with clinical guidance and invite legal challenges.
A series of witnesses told the Senate Health Committee they opposed language included in the House version of House Bill 96 that several speakers described as anti-trans and medically unsound. Nurse practitioner Catherine Lacree, who said she practices LGBTQIA+ primary care and gender medicine, testified against HB 96 sections 333.13 and 9.05 and cited the American Psychological Association’s February 2024 guidance as evidence that bans on gender-affirming care would “disrupt not only the role of providers in offering evidence-based care but also obstruct patients and parental rights in shared…
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