Mississippi enacts ban on gender-affirming care for minors


              Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves speaks about his signing a bill to ban gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18, during a Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, news conference in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
            
              Ceremonial signing pens lay on top of a copy of the bill banning gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18, after being signed into law by Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at a news conference in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
            
              Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves speaks about his signing a bill to ban gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18, during a Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, news conference in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
            
              Rob Hill, state director of Human Rights Campaign Mississippi, right, says the new law signed by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves banning gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18, will "demonize and alienate transgender kids" who are already vulnerable, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, outside the governor's offices in Jackson, Miss. Hill and a small group of protestors gathered outside the offices during the bill signing ceremony. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
            
              Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signs a bill to ban gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18, during a Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, news conference in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
            
              Marchers voicing objection to House Bill 1125 prohibiting transgender-related healthcare in Mississippi for people under the age of 18 walk from the State Capitol to the governor's mansion following a rally at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., in support of trans youth Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2022. (Barbara Gauntt//The Clarion-Ledger via AP)
            
              A protester holds a poster calling for lawmakers to vote against House Bill 1125, which would ban gender-affirming care for trans children at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi enacts ban on gender-affirming care for minors