by Kyle Becker, Becker News:
Seven states took steps to restrict childhood sex change procedures ranging from social transitions to surgeries in 2022 amid growing concern about the procedures’ safety and effectiveness.
The gender transition process for minors can include socially transitioning through a new name and pronouns of the opposite sex, as well as through medical interventions like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and various surgeries, all of which are legal for children in most U.S. states. Several Republican-led states have moved to ban some or all of these procedures for minors, often arguing that, while most adolescents grow out of their gender dysphoria by the time they reach adulthood, these medical interventions are irreversible.
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Alabama, Arizona, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma banned medical transitions for minors in 2022, joining a handful of states which had already done so.
“We have seen a dangerous mix of politics and medicine from doctors in the Biden Administration and many of our medical societies across the United States,” Brock Juarez, deputy chief of staff of the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “They have often traded their oath to do no harm in exchange for political gain. It has quickly become imperative for states like Florida to step up and ensure our health care system is focused on the actual evidence for treatment, rather than relying solely on the eminence of a medical society or association.”
Advocates of these medical interventions claim they’re linked to better mental health outcomes and lower suicide rates among children with gender identity issues, but studies in this field are plagued with methodological issue including a consistent lack of control groups and small sample sizes, and some of the studies are conducted by LGBT activists or funded by pharmaceutical companies that produce drugs used in medical transitions, multiple Daily Caller News Foundation investigations have found. There’s also a growing cohort of detransitioners — patients who regret undergoing medical transitions — who are speaking out against the ease with which children are given irreversible medical procedures to resolve what would likely be temporary gender confusion.
