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Policy Tracker: Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care and State Policy Restrictions | KFF
This tracker provides an overview of state laws/policies restricting minor access to gender affirming care and any associated litigation by state, identifying which groups of people are impacted in addition to minors, the types of penalties providers face, the status of legal challenges, and...
I view protecting children from being coaxed into transgender care as a good thing, given that it is potentially harmful and irreversible. There is ample evidence that psychological disorders can produce symptoms of gender dysphoria, and that symptoms of gender dysphoria can disappear as one matures through adolescence. It is also easy to document bad or abusive parents or authority figures encouraging children to undergo transgender care, despite it being unnecessary and harmful.
Since sex is determined by genetics or chromosomes, we can presume that the biological origins of gender (e.x. the brain) are as well. If someone wants to argue that some people are born with a brain that doesn't match their physical sex, then this is a statistical minority, and doesn't negate the need to protect the majority of children from unnecessary transgender care.
Currently there are laws restricting access to transgender care in 27 states.