Adults can do what they want, BUT KIDS?
Adolescents face a wide range of issues that can be a source of struggle including puberty, independence, impulsive behavior, body type, self-esteem, sexuality, friends, drugs, and education. Social Media may exacerbate these struggles. There has been an explosion of adolescents, primarily girls, questioning their gender.(1)
There is a debate as to what level of gender affirming care is appropriate.
The Biden Administration and Critical
Social Justice proponents are advocating aggressive gender affirming care for
adolescents.
Recently, countries in the EU, which had previously allowed open access to gender affirming care, have begun limiting it and prescribing mental health counseling because they have seen the results of studies, early and limited, that gender affirming care may cause more damage than it prevents.
Now we are seeing states
starting to limit gender affirming care to the extremely rare
cases where it is medically necessary. See the Montana exceptions below which are
typical of all of the states limiting gender affirming care.
(1)
treatment
for a person born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development,
including:
- a person born
with external biological sex characteristics that are irresolvable
ambiguous, including an individual born with 46 XX chromosomes with
virilization, 46 XY chromosomes with under virilization, or having both
ovarian and testicular tissue; and
- a person whom
a physician has otherwise diagnosed with a disorder of sexual development
in which the physician has determined through genetic or biochemical
testing that the person does not have normal sex chromosome structure,
sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action for a male
or female; and
(2)
treatment
of any infection, injury, disease, or disorder that has been caused or
exacerbated by a [gender affirming] medical treatment listed in subsection
(1)(a) or (1)(b), whether or not the medical treatment was performed in
accordance with state and federal law and whether or not funding for the
medical treatment is permissible under state and federal law.
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