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Detransitioners would get more time to sue doctors for body mutilation under new Alabama bill

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An Alabama lawmaker is looking to grant detransitioners more time to sue the doctors and providers who provided them with genital-mutilating surgeries and puberty-blocking drugs as minors.

As the U.S. Supreme Court this week weighs a Tennessee law prohibiting sex-change surgeries and hormone drugs for minors, a bill is set to be proposed in Alabama by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, that would extend the statute of limitations for medical malpractice suits, typically two years in Alabama.

Under the legislation, an individual who underwent so-called "gender-affirming care" would have 15 years after turning 19 to file a lawsuit, as the Alabama Daily Newsreported Sunday.

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