Oklahoma's Senate passed a bill banning gender-confirmation surgeries, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers for minors.

Senate Bill 613, introduced by state Sen. Julie Daniels, accepted amendments introduced by the House on Thursday. The bill will now go to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who is expected to sign it, Tulsa World reported. If he does, it would make Oklahoma the latest of several red states to sign a bill restricting controversial gender-confirmation treatments for minors.

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The Republican-dominated Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill, passing it in a 37-8 vote. The vote was held at the unusually late time of 8:40 p.m., apparently to limit the debate to 30 minutes per side.

Republicans argued that the bill was essential to prevent the mutilation and irreversible harm of children, while Democrats claimed the bill was an invasion of privacy and taking rights away from parents.

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SB 613 would ban any medical procedure that seeks to alter the anatomical characteristics of children relating to their sex. The issuing of cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers would be banned as well. Any physician caught violating the law would be charged with a felony and would be eligible for civil legal actions.

The bill clarifies that the bill would not prohibit counseling for gender dysphoria or medication aiming to treat depression and anxiety in those born with incomplete, ambiguous, and both male and female genitalia.