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Sad that this is in the politics section, isn't it?
Agreed, it shouldn't even be political at all, and the constitution stated under the 14th amendment equal protection for all. But the supreme court is ignoring it and using some other bullshit to overturn shit.
Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I'm a bit torn on this subject. I know that there is a detrans community out there that made a mistake transitioning and now want to go back. I just don't want anybody to go through that. Most of the argument is encouraging going to therapy and see if transitioning is the correct thing to do or if it's all a societal pressure thing. I also don't want people who actually need the procedure to go long living in the wrong skin. So I guess what I'm saying is it is a bit wrong to halt this treatment for youth. Maybe they can reconsider this given that the child has to go through many sessions of therapy and the doctors think it is the healthy procedure to do so.
The thing is, it's not just therapy. They also have to get a medical doctor to sign off on any sort of medical gender affirming care. People trying to ban it are basically saying doctors should be banned from doing what they think will help a patient's health.
This argument works even better for other surgeries. Gender affirming surgery and HRT has one of the lowest rates of regret of any procedure out there. So this argument works better for requiring knee surgery to be signed off by a therapist or doctor first after a few months of conversations to ensure it's the right thing. There is a gigantic amount of people regretting their knee surgeries after all compared to the regret of transitioning.
On a side note, most people who detransition do so due to not being able to afford HRT or family or societal pressure to do so, not because they find out they weren't trans. Of course it happens but it's much rarer than the total numbers of detransitions could lead one to believe.