HB1080 prohibits certain medical and surgical interventions on minor patients, including puberty blockers and gender affirmation surgeries.
The Senate passed HB1080 on February 9, 2023, by a vote of 30 to 4. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because South Dakota acted lawfully to ban sex mutilation against minors, which not only violates the unalienable right to life and limb of children, but absurdly attempts to erase biological “sex” with fictional “gender” constructs. According to the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the States have a duty to protect the humanity of all people—male and female—who, as the Declaration of Independence affirms, are created by God and form the basis of individual and family self-government.