The Alaska State Medical Board has released a draft regulation that, for the first time, formally defines boys as male and girls as female based on their biological sex at birth, and prohibits doctors from providing medical interventions that attempt to alter that reality in patients under 18
The Board has released a draft regulation that would bar physicians from performing transgender medical interventions on anyone under the age of 18, formally classifying such procedures as “unprofessional conduct” that would be subject to disciplinary action.
The board also approved a short statement that says abortions performed just prior to delivery are typically unethical. Alaska law currently allows abortion up to the moment of birth.
“Alaska state law allows for elective late term abortions, up until the time of delivery,” the board’s statement reads. “The Alaska State Medical Board believes this is not ethical medical practice and does not embody the values of Alaskans. Many Alaskans and even physicians are unaware of this. We encourage Alaskans to engage with their representatives and to advocate for new legislation to bring state law into alignment with community values on this issue.”
The proposed rule relating to the chemical and surgical mutilation of children falls under the regulation 12 AAC 40.967 – Unprofessional Conduct, the section of state regulation that sets the standards for medical licensure in Alaska. The draft adds a new subsection, number 36, that specifically addresses medical treatments related to gender identity in minors.
The regulation states that “providing medical or surgical intervention to treat gender dysphoria or facilitate gender transition by altering sex characteristics inconsistent with the biological sex at birth” would constitute a violation. It lists as examples puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mastectomy, phalloplasty, and genital modification procedures.
Two exceptions are included in the draft. Physicians would not be subject to discipline if providing treatment for congenital sex development disorders, sometimes referred to as intersex conditions, or if performing non-elective procedures required as a result of physical injury.
The board also introduces new definitions to clarify its intent. “Biological sex” is defined as “the male or female designation based on chromosomes, gonads, hormones, and genitals at birth, irrespective of psychological identity.” “Gender transition” is defined as “any process to align sex characteristics with a gender identity different from biological sex.”
By inserting the prohibition into the “unprofessional conduct” section, the medical board would gain authority to discipline licensees who engage in such practices, up to and including suspension or revocation of a medical license.
The draft rules are subject to the state’s regulatory process, which includes a public comment period before any final adoption. Once comments are received and reviewed, the board may make revisions before sending the regulation for final approval and implementation.
If adopted, the policy would put limits on what has become a profit center for some doctors — the gender mutilation of children and forcing them into a life of chemical dependency.
Earlier this year the medical board unanimously adopted a statement urging the Alaska Legislature to outlaw chemical castration and surgical gender transition treatments for minors, but the Alaska Legislature is controlled by Democrats and a few enabling Republicans who refused to act.
In June, the US Supreme Court sided with Tennessee’s law that bans medical treatments for minors whose parents are seeking gender transitions. The court said that such laws do not automatically violate the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. The change to the regulation in Alaska would likely be challenged by the ACLU in state court, with pro-mutilation advocates claiming that such a prohibition violates the Alaska State Constitution’s privacy clause.
Thank God! Hope that this ‘return to sanity’ continues everywhere. Leave our children out of your radical madness, and get treatment yourselves!
Who ever thought that this was a good idea in the first place should’ve been arrested!!! It’s called child abuse.
Listen carefully voters!
“The Alaska Legislature is controlled by Democrats and a few ENABLING Republicans who refused to act.”
Wake up and start paying attention to the voting record of your candidate who claims to be a true republican conservative but actually nothing more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Josh Revak caught speeding with his beer drinking buddy Scott Kawasaki on the sterling hiway on their way to a party was a wake up call. That was not crossing the isle to “work with fellow members”.
This introductory paragraph illustrates the extent of degradation of our society and lack of both professionalism and attachment to reality of what we call “doctors”.
We are living through an age of utter depravity, ignorance, making a mockery of science and basic reality.
The level of dysfunctional selfishness prevelant throughout society that led to an accepted human condition that exterminating children in the womb or after birth and mutilating their bodies and minds is normal.
It is very encouraging the board is taking the first steps to address this, and there is a long way to go.
Subsection 36 is necessary because Democrats still don’t understand basic biology. A penis is not a vagina. A mouth is not an *ss. Hello.
Anyone who thinks a man can be a woman is mentally ill all day long. Period.
Unfortunately, the Governor stopped any regulation projects by executive order in May. Yet he issued a diametrically opposite executive order earlier in August requiring every department, division, board and commission to eliminate 15-25% of existing regulations. But, at this point, the state employees are still banned from working on regulation projects. They are necessary for Law review and public notices before adoption (or elimination) of any regulations. So this, like many other pending regulations, will sit unenacted.
But it really helps parents of trans kids access better care in the Lower 48. Now all we have to do is cite this law, and insurance is sending us to Arizona for care next summer, we don’t have to prove that there is no one in Alaska that can do the surgery.
The doctor that transgendered her two year old should be put in Alaska Psychiatric Institute for life. She is the sickest person on the planet to do that to a child.
Better late than never. This has been obscene and has forever tarnished the medical profession, especially when watching them as a group of lemmings jumping on the COVID vaccine bandwagon which has caused great harm and death. Some Doctors refused to follow the juggernaut and they are to be commended. Last note, the brain is not fully developed until you’re in your 20s…
There were cash incentives for administering the jabs. The opiate epidemic is also due to incentives by the Rx drug companies for “doctors” to prescribe their toxins.
We get our daughter’s care through the State of Washington, it’s cheaper and easier than trying to find care in Alaska. No parents or kids I know will be affected by this at all, as we all go Outside for better care. Alaska medical care isn’t exactly known to be quality, and we can do Zoom meetings, our daughter’s prescriptions, including her estrogen, are still at Freds pharmacy, so this does nothing but help us speed up the process to get it covered by insurance easier, all I have to do is tell my insurance company it’s not offered here! Thanks GOP, you made it better for trans kids accidentally!
Meanwhile churches are a hotbed of incest and child rape, and you fools are chasing this around. Amazing really.