The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.

Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.

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      They’ve been in use since I was a child, so like 20 years ago at least, and were often used to delay puberty when it started abnormally early for a child. They’re perfectly fine.

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        If we want to talk specifically about the drug transphobes shit their pants over, Lupron, it has been in use since the mid-80s. And studies have shown that Lupron as well as other puberty blockers are, by and large, safe for kids. We have like 40 years of data on this.

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        Using them for that purpose is fine.

        Using them to hold back puberty in children who believe they are trans has SEVERE medical repercussions.

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          That’s only possible if there’s a physiological difference between someone trans and someone who isn’t trans, that’s present without any treatment. If trans people are distinctly different physiologically with all other things equal, that confirms the need for medicine and treatment. Your argument is still defeating.

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      You can stop taking puberty blockers and then, unsurprisingly, go through puberty with very minimal side effects. This has been shown through peer reviewed studies to vastly improve the well-being of trans children.

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        Lol did my original comment get removed?

        If you stop taking them later in life you will not go through puberty. Therefore it is misleading to say there are no side effects.

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        The side effects are not “minimal”

        They are minimal to you because you are minimising them and that is dangerous. At least be honest.

        The FDA has issued warnings against them for brain swelling and severe bone density issues.

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      But pumping kids full of amphetamine and Wellbutrin is perfectly natural, right?

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        And they would be correct to do so. Spreading misinformation in support of bigoted policy is bigotry.

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        Please explain why you think you know better than most medical organizations in fields of their expertise.