Who opposes such treatment? Red-state politicians pushing such legislation have turned to a traveling coterie of formerly trans individuals who once sought such treatment, including surgeries, only later to regret their decisions and return to their biological gender identity. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the Endocrine Society, the World Medical Association and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health are among the 30 leading professional medical organizations affirming the necessity of recognizing and treating gender dysphoria. There will be no shortage of expert witnesses should the cases go to trial. Texas and a dozen other states that already have passed such laws will surely face years of litigation in the courts by the American Civil Liberties Union and the LGBTQ group Lambda Legal, which already have filed a lawsuit in Tennessee seeking to overturn that state’s anti-transgender bill. It’s no wonder families with transgender children, many of whom are successfully treated without drug therapies or or even rarer surgeries, are reluctantly leaving the state, seeing their lives and livelihoods traumatically uprooted by medical necessity. The Senate bill would simply cut off treatments immediately. The House version calls for trans youth under 18 currently being treated to be weaned from drugs to reverse their effects less abruptly. Transition surgeries, seldom prescribed, also would be banned. The House has joined the Senate in passing a bill outlawing the use of puberty-blocking pharmaceuticals and hormone treatments for minors under 18.
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