the harm is the traumatizing effect it will have on children and their families when they know that they ve been receiving best practice medical care, and now all of a sudden they re scared because they don t know what s going to happen in the vacuum of that. alabama governor kay ivey signed into law a bill that makes it a felony for doctors to provide gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth and another that requires students to use the bathroom matching the sex on their birth certificate. ivey s action is part of a wave of legislation being adopted across the country in record numbers. these bills and the transphobic hate rhetoric attached to them have kobs eloquences. in just the past month, six trans women have been murdered around the country. tatyana, kenyana.