New Hampshire lawmakers sent several bills to Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s (R-NH) desk Thursday that would ban certain transgender treatments and surgeries for minors.

Lawmakers in the state House and Senate passed House Bill 377 in 202-161 and 16-8 votes, respectively, in the chambers. Two Democrats in the House voted with Republicans for the legislation, while the vote followed party lines in the Senate.

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Ayotte has not said whether she would sign the bill. Her predecessor, former Gov. Chris Sununu, vetoed a similar transgender-related bill last year. Signing the bill would follow the Republican Party’s stance at-large, which has rejected transgender treatments and surgeries for minors.

Lawmakers are also sending two related bills to Ayotte’s desk.

HB 712 would prevent those younger than 18 from additional surgical procedures when they are used to treat gender dysphoria, such as what the legislation calls “transgender chest surgery.” HB 148 lessens some antidiscrimination protections passed by the legislature in 2018.

If Ayotte signs the bills, it would make New Hampshire the first Northeastern state to ban transition-related treatment for minors. The Republican lawmaker who introduced HB 377 and HB 712 referenced a Supreme Court decision last week upholding a Tennessee law preventing transgender-identifying youths from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormones.

“It is now legal and constitutional for states to regulate and or ban the use of these harmful drugs in minors,” Republican New Hampshire state Rep. Lisa Mazur said, according to the Boston Globe.

Democratic state Rep. Jonah Wheeler, 22, voted for HB 377 and HB 712. In defending his support for the former, Wheeler said, “Nobody is born in the wrong body. Everybody is beautiful no matter if you are short, stout, tall and lean, whether you are black or you’re white, whether you’re a feminine man or a masculine woman, nobody has the right to say you aren’t beautiful as you are created.”

LGBT advocacy organization GLAD Law denounced HB 377 as an attempt by “extremist” legislators to limit transgender rights.

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“HB 377 is the latest in a years-long campaign by extremist legislators to roll back rights and protections for transgender Granite Staters, especially transgender youth, and to insert government between them and their families,” GLAD Law wrote in a March statement after the bill passed the House. “This coordinated effort is baseless and cruel and contradicts New Hampshire’s bedrock values of freedom and fairness.”

Ayotte signed the state’s nearly $16 billion budget into law on Friday.