Arkansas bans puberty blockers, hormone treatments and surgery for under 18s

this is why what they're doing is the right thing

www.persuasion.community/p/keira-bell-my-story

"At the Tavistock, practitioners provide “gender affirmative care”—in practice, this means that when children and teens declare a desire to transition, their assertions are typically accepted as conclusive. Affirmative care is being adopted as a model in many places. In 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement on the treatment of young people who identify as transgender and gender diverse that advocated for “gender-affirmative care.”

But former Tavistock practitioners have cited varied problems suffered by the kids who sought help, such as sexual abuse, trauma, parental abandonment, homophobia in the family or at school, depression, anxiety, being on the autism spectrum, having ADHD. These profound issues, and how they might be tied up with feelings of dysphoria, have often been ignored in favor of making transition the all-purpose solution"

"It is a bit uncomfortable though to be on the same side as the American Christian Right. I'm not sure that their motivations are necessarily the same as mine."

Should vegetarians be uncomfortable being 'on the same side' as Hitler? Seriously, I'm getting pissed off with this - the idea that unless someone else is 'pure' then I can have no overlap with them. It's completely fucked up.

The motivations of the American Christian Right (which I suspect will be on a spectrum of mild to extreme) are irrelevant to me. That they will protect children from irreversible harm is what counts, not their why.