I always get worried in a committee hearing when a member of the state Legislature presenting a bill doesn’t seem to know exactly what he or she is talking about.
Case in point — when state Sen. Carden Summers, a farmer and small businessman from Cordele, presented Senate Bill 140 to the House Public Health Committee Tuesday. The legislation would ban doctors and hospitals from providing gender-affirming surgery or hormone replacement therapy to transgender minors.
As Summers described what was in the bill, he admitted there were some portions “a little bit over my pay grade, when it comes to the X-Y, Y-X, and that kind of stuff in regards to gender dysphoria at birth.”
