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Utah lawmakers again eye policies restricting transgender youth from health care, sports

Legislators ask experts how young people are currently accessing puberty-blocking medicine, hormone treatments.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Kera Birkeland, R-Morgan, and Sue Robbins, Equality Utah, at a meeting of the Health and Human Services Interim Committee at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. Transgender treatment for minors and participation by transgender youth in school sports were the topics of discussion.