Do Not Make Gender Affirming Surgery Illegal For Under 18s

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

There has been debate recently about making gender affirming surgeries illegal for under 18s in the UK. There was also an anouncement for the Equalities Minister. This feels like the world is going backwards. Do not illegalise it!

Thousands of trangender teens suffer from the physical and mental torture of gender dysphoria. A really helpful way to relieve this is by getting gender affirming surgeries such as top and bottom surgery along with others. Banning this would be a huge setback for the acceptance of the LGBTQ+ Community and will likely be overall more harmful to these teens.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Timeline

10 May 2020	Petition opened for signatures
22 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 22 Jul 2020

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