This morning the NC Values Coalition hosted a press conference in support of HB 606, a bill that would extend the statute of limitations for detransitioners to sue for medical malpractice, and SB 516/HB 791, the Women’s Safety and Protection Act.
Speaking in support of the bills, NC Values Coalition Executive Directive Tami Fitzgerald said, “We need to roll back the harmful effects of gender ideology in NC by protecting women and girls from policies that deprive them of safety and privacy, and by creating a path to justice for detransitioners who have been taken advantage of for profit and are now suffering from irreversible, life-long damage to their bodies.”
Speakers in support of HB 606 included two detransitioners, Prisha Mosely and Elle Palmer. They shared their stories of the mental and physical problems they continue to experience as a result of the gender transition interventions they underwent.
Speakers in support of SB 516/HB 791 included Payton McNabb, Stacy Metcalf from Moms For Liberty, Chloe Button (an 8th grader from Buncombe County), Chloe Howe from NC Values Coalition (sharing the story of Ruby Leis, a high schooler from Asheville).
Background:
HB 606 would extend the statute of limitations for detransitioners to sue for medical malpractice. In the past decade, countless patients have undergone irreversible gender transition interventions believing they were scientifically sound and necessary for their mental well-being. But these interventions were not supported by science and, in many cases, used with vulnerable minors and young adults who could not fully comprehend the long-term impact of their decisions. Furthermore, the full extent of the damage from these interventions often is not revealed until years later. Victims may not discover issues like infertility, long-term psychological effects, or physical complications including cancer and bone density loss for many years. HB 606 extends the statute of limitations for medical malpractice lawsuits related to gender transition interventions to 10 years.
The Women’s Safety and Protection Act (SB 516 /HB 791) defines the two sexes based on biology, not identity, so that laws and policies meant to protect women and girls are not invalidated by males identifying as females. It also designates private spaces – restrooms, locker rooms, sleeping quarters, and changing rooms – by biological sex, not identity, in specific settings including schools, prisons, and rape crisis centers. When women and girls are robbed of their privacy, safety, and dignity when men and boys are allowed to enter their private spaces. NC schools should never be allowed to adopt policies that put girls on the front lines of the gender ideology confusion. And NC should not jeopardize female inmates’ safety and privacy by allowing men in private women’s spaces in correctional facilities.
