From The Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE — Senator Shay Shelnutt (R-Trussville) disagreed with NBC News’s comments on a bill banning child use of gender-altering drugs on Thursday, March 24.

Sen. Shay Shelnutt
According to Dylan Smith at Yellowhammer News, Shelnutt and Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa), sponsored a bill, Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, to protect minors from gender-altering medical procedures, and it passed the legislature’s upper chamber earlier this month by a vote of 24-6.
Jo Yurcaba of NBC Out, a reporter for NBC News’ LGBTQ-centric digital section, wrote a report that disagreed with the bill and described it as being “part of a national trend over the past several years of states’ shifting their focus from limiting gay rights to limiting trans rights.”
Shelnutt explained that the bill was crafted to shield children from making life-altering decisions, and he dismissed the idea that the bill was created to hinder the rights of transgender people.
“The bill is to protect minors from life-altering drugs and surgeries,” Shelnutt told Yellowhammer News. “The far-left seems to think it is OK to use kids for experiments. It is not OK to use children as experiments. The science shows that most children that are going through gender identity issues will grow out of it if allowed to go through puberty.”
Shelnutt told Yellowhammer News, medical professionals he has consulted with warn of the “irreversible” actions of what some say is akin to a form of chemical castration.
“Children should be protected from drugs and surgeries that would have irreversible consequences and a create life-long dependency on drugs,” Shelnutt said in an interview with Yellowhammer News. “Doctors and rational people all agree that no child should be making life altering decisions especially when they are struggling with puberty.”
The bill currently sits in the Alabama House of Representatives, if approved, it will head to Gov. Kay Ivey’s desk for signature.
State Sen. Shay Shelnutt
Senator Shay Shelnutt disagrees with NBC News comments about gender-altering medical procedures
From The Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE — Senator Shay Shelnutt (R-Trussville) disagreed with NBC News’s comments on a bill banning child use of gender-altering drugs on Thursday, March 24.
Sen. Shay Shelnutt
According to Dylan Smith at Yellowhammer News, Shelnutt and Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa), sponsored a bill, Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, to protect minors from gender-altering medical procedures, and it passed the legislature’s upper chamber earlier this month by a vote of 24-6.
Jo Yurcaba of NBC Out, a reporter for NBC News’ LGBTQ-centric digital section, wrote a report that disagreed with the bill and described it as being “part of a national trend over the past several years of states’ shifting their focus from limiting gay rights to limiting trans rights.”
Shelnutt explained that the bill was crafted to shield children from making life-altering decisions, and he dismissed the idea that the bill was created to hinder the rights of transgender people.
“The bill is to protect minors from life-altering drugs and surgeries,” Shelnutt told Yellowhammer News. “The far-left seems to think it is OK to use kids for experiments. It is not OK to use children as experiments. The science shows that most children that are going through gender identity issues will grow out of it if allowed to go through puberty.”
Shelnutt told Yellowhammer News, medical professionals he has consulted with warn of the “irreversible” actions of what some say is akin to a form of chemical castration.
“Children should be protected from drugs and surgeries that would have irreversible consequences and a create life-long dependency on drugs,” Shelnutt said in an interview with Yellowhammer News. “Doctors and rational people all agree that no child should be making life altering decisions especially when they are struggling with puberty.”
The bill currently sits in the Alabama House of Representatives, if approved, it will head to Gov. Kay Ivey’s desk for signature.