JUNEAU, Alaska (LifeSiteNews) — The Alaska State Medical Board has voted unanimously both to deem it “unprofessional conduct” to “transition” gender-confused minors and to urge the legislature to prohibit late-term abortion.
The first resolution adds to the definition of “unprofessional conduct” the act of “providing medical or surgical intervention to treat gender dysphoria or facilitate gender transition by altering sex characteristics inconsistent with the biological sex at birth, including but not limited to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mastectomy, phalloplasty, or genital modification to a minor under the age of 18 years old. Exceptions Include but are not limited to: Treatments for congenital sex development disorders or non-elective procedures for physical injury.” Consequences could range from disciplinary action to loss of medical license.
The second condemns Alaska law for allowing late-term abortions up to delivery as “not ethical medical practice,” which “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 Alaska Beacon reports that the gender regulation must now go before the Alaska Department of Law for review, followed by a 30-day public comment period, before taking effect.
“This was brought to us as a concern by members of the public, and we acted on that. This is not politically driven. This is not politically motivated,” commercial pilot Dave Wilson, who occupies the board’s public seat, said.
A large body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80 percent of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and that “reassignment” procedures fail to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
The abortion statement, meanwhile, is a non-binding challenge to the state’s pro-abortion status quo. “Alaska is one of only a handful of states to have virtually no restrictions on abortion; in this case, it’s due to the state’s activist Supreme Court. The court has repeatedly ruled in favor of abortion, to the applause of the abortion industry, even as state legislators and voters feel differently,” notes Live Action.
Twelve states have banned all or most abortions. But the abortion lobby continues to work feverishly to cancel out those deterrents via deregulated interstate distribution of abortion pills, legal protection and financial support of interstate abortion travel, constructing new abortion facilities near borders shared by pro-life and pro-abortion states, making liberal states sanctuaries for those who want to evade or violate the laws of more pro-life neighbors, and embedding abortion “rights” in state constitutions.
