New Hampshire is the first Northeastern state to ban gender-affirming health care for minors after its Republican governor gave final approval to bills that will ban the use of certain prescription medications and surgeries to treat gender dysphoria beginning next year.

Gov. Kelly Ayotte, a former U.S. senator who won New Hampshire’s gubernatorial election in November, signed two bills Friday restricting access to transition-related care in the state, which already prohibits rare genital surgeries for minors to transition.

H.B. 377 prohibits doctors from administering puberty blockers and hormones to transgender youth starting Jan. 1. Like a handful of other, similar measures adopted by nearly all Republican-led states, New Hampshire’s prohibition includes a “grandfather clause” that allows minors already receiving care to continue doing so even after the law goes into effect.

The second bill, H.B. 712, builds on New Hampshire’s existing restrictions on gender-affirming surgery. The measure, which will also take effect in........

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