New Hampshire Public RadioBy NHPR StaffAugust 4, 2025New Hampshire is now the only state in New England to ban most gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. That’s after Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed two bills into law Friday: One prohibits doctors from administering puberty blockers or hormone treatments to people younger than 18 when the treatment is part of a gender transition. The second new law prohibits gender-affirming chest surgeries for minors.Major medical organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Psychiatric Association oppose those kinds of restrictions. They say gender-affirming treatments can be vital to trans teens’ mental health to help them avoid the distress of going through puberty in a body that doesn’t match their gender identity.“I’m just really sad for all our trans youth here in New Hampshire and for New Hampshire in general,” said Rosie Emrich, who has a transgender daughter and lobbied against the bills.
New Hampshire has a split personality, it is liberal in the southerner part of the state, but you get into the north woods... watch out! It was in New Hampshire that I came up with my gun rack rule. The more pick-up trucks with gun racks in front of a bar, the less likely I would go inside.
A high school friend moved up there and I used to visit them once in a while, one time they had some friends over when I was visiting. I never visited him again. All they talked about was the "Deep State" and the black helicopters flying overhead look for pot plants... "I joked hang red Christmas balls off the plants... they will think that they are tomato plants.
Like Connecticut New England isn't really "Blue" but more purple and it all boils down to who can get out the vote.
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