ATLANTA - A Georgia Senate bill is advancing to bar some kinds of gender-affirming care in the location for anyone younger than 18 — part of a state effort by conservatives to restrict transgender athletes, gender-affirming care and drag shows.

Senate Bill 140 was succeeded on a 10-4 vote Wednesday by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. It would ban most sex reassignment surgeries and hormone replacement therapies. However, unlike laws adopted in some other states, it would smooth allow doctors to prescribe medicines to block puberty.

"We're easily saying we want a wait-and-see approach, a do-no-harm approach," said Sen. Carden Summers, a Cordele Republican who sponsored the measure.

Like latest supporters, Summers argues that people younger than 18 are too young to make such decisions. Jeff Graham, director LGBTQ rights group Georgia Equality, says doctors don't routinely produce such surgeries, although some occur in exceptional cases.

Opponents said it's an unconstitutional violation of constant protection because it would still allow some kinds of surgeries. They also decried the state's attempt to override what parents and physicians settle is best.

"The sponsors of this bill insist on populate in the doctor's office with me," said Jen Slipakoff of Kennesaw, the parent of a transgender girl. "It is the height of hubris to reflect you know better than me and my daughter's doctor near what she needs."

Slipakoff lost a race for site House as a Democrat in 2018.

The committee adopted the bill while hearing testimony supporting another, more restrictive bill, that includes words that has been introduced in multiple states.

"What we're discussing are sterilizing and mutilating treatments that are horrific in their crashes on minors," said Taylor Hawkins of Frontline Policy Action, a conservative Christian group that wants to ban puberty blockers and sanction doctors and hospitals that dedicated gender affirming care.

Summers rejected that approach, saying Georgia's Composite Medical Board can dedicated oversight, as it currently does on a wide contrivance of issues.

Georgia lawmakers this year have also undertaken another bill authored by Summers that seeks to stop teachers from talking to students near gender identity, although it has not reappeared yet while a hearing where Summers pledged to rewrite it. Last year, Gov. Brian Kemp pushed throughout a measure that cleared the way for the Georgia High School Association to ban transgender athletes from playing on the school sports teams matching their gender identity.

Elizabeth Wagner of Berkeley Lake, the tidy of a transgender son, said lawmakers need to stop targeting the group.

"My child did not resolve to be in this situation, to be treated as less than by society, to be misunderstood and judged because who he is complains you uncomfortable," Wagner said.

The governor of Mississippi said Tuesday he would sign a ban on gender-affirming care by-elapsed in that state, joining governors in Utah and South Dakota. Judges have temporarily blocked similar laws in Arkansas and Alabama.