For people who have never thought about it before, it might sound reasonable to require trans kids to wait until they’re adults before they can receive certain forms of care known as gender-affirming treatment – which is what legislation that just passed in Arkansas does. But this type of legislation actually prevents kids from accessing treatment before and during a crucial period of development: puberty. When I was researching my book “The.
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S TRANSGENDER medicine has boomed in America, the number of doctors offering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children who identify as the opposite sex has surged. In some states the World Professional Association for Transgender Health lists more than a dozen endocrinologists who work with children. In Arkansas it lists just one. Yet this month the state became the first to ban the prescription of such drugs to those aged under 18. Unless the American Civil Liberties Union (
ACLU), which has become a vocal champion of trans rights, succeeds in blocking the law, the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (
SAFE) Act will come into effect this summer.