Sen. Joey Fillingane, defending a controversial anti-trans bill this week, said that a plastic surgeon told him he performed surgery on trans kids. That surgeon told Mississippi Today he’s never done that and wants Fillingane to recant.
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today February 24, 2023 Sen. Joey Fillingane, defending a controversial bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans minors, said on the Senate floor Tuesday he'd recently spoken with a Hattiesburg-based plastic surgeon who told him he'd performed gender-confirmation surgery on 17-year-old trans kids.
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