Action Alert: Protect Kids From Irreversible Harm

When a child is struggling, they need compassionate care—not experimental hormones and surgeries.

LB 574 will protect children from gender transition drugs and surgeries by prohibiting puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender reassignment surgeries for individuals younger than 19.

Giving kids puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even transgender surgery violates the first duty of medicine: do no harm.

Children who are struggling to embrace their biological sex need love, support, and time—not harmful drugs and surgeries with lifelong, irreversible consequences.

LB 574 ensures children receive help not harm, treatment not transition, and protection not politics.

This bill will be heard in the Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday. Please submit a written comment online in support of LB 574. 

• • STEP 1: Click here to access the LB 574 webpage on the legislature’s website.
  • STEP 2: Click “Submit Comments Online For LB 574” in the center of the page.
  • STEP 3: Select “Yes” under “Include Comment in Hearing Record,” fill out the form, and submit your comment as a “proponent.” You will receive an email asking you to confirm your comment.

Comments must be submitted by Tuesday, February 7th at 12:00 PM (CST).

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Please personalize your comments and mark “Yes” under “Include Comment in Hearing Record.”

Chairman Hansen and members of the Health and Human Services Committee,

I am writing to express my support for LB 574.

• • Giving kids puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even transgender surgery violates the first duty of medicine: do no harm.

  • LB 574 helps children who are struggling to embrace their biological sex by protecting them from harmful drugs and surgeries.

  • Minors aren’t eligible to make other life-altering decisions, including ones far less significant than puberty blockers and surgeries that remove healthy body parts. If a minor is not old enough to get a tattoo or buy cough syrup over the counter, why would we permit dangerous hormones and drastic surgeries for them?

  • Children who are struggling to embrace their biological sex need love, support, and time—not harmful drugs and surgeries with lifelong, irreversible consequences.

  • LB 574 ensures children receive help not harm, treatment not transition, and protection not politics.

I urge the Committee to advance LB 574. Thank you for your time and consideration.

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