Alabama House Speaker Mac McCutheon said state representatives are divided over the proposed bill that would ban the use of hormones and puberty-blockers to treat transgender youth.
He said he was unsure when the bill would get to the floor to be voted on. A similar bill was just passed in Arkansas, making it the first state to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender minors.
The Alabama bill would make providing treatments a felony punishable by 10 years in prison for a doctor to prescribe puberty-blockers or hormones or to provide surgery to aid in gender transition of people 18 years old or younger.
