Many doctors, mental health professionals and LGBTQ advocates have contended that outlawing the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone treatment would have disastrous effects for transgender youth.
Many doctors, mental health professionals and LGBTQ advocates have contended that outlawing the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone treatment would have disastrous effects for transgender youth.
Concerning the recent mass shooting in Tennessee, Salonen writes, "Determining the correct pronoun to use for the killer became, in some newsrooms and social-media circles, the central issue, rather than the calculated murders of innocent people."
Dr. Gabriela Balf, a Bismarck doctor who cares for transgender people, responds to what she says were "a number of falsehoods that were dispersed, unchecked, on the Senate floor last week."
More than a half-dozen Republican-led states, including South Dakota, have passed bans on gender-affirming care for minors, though several of the laws have been blocked by judges.