Republican Florida Rep. Joe Harding, who backed the “don’t say gay” bill, argued that the policy was based on science. “He’s bisexual, male and female,” Harding said in a telephone interview. “It’s almost incontrovertible.”
He argued that “life-altering surgeries and extreme changes” associated with gender-affirming care can cause long-term harm to minors. , argues that states have an obligation to intervene to protect children, even if the parents disagree.
The New York Times reports that there are studies suggesting that this treatment can seriously compromise bone health in young people, but several mainstream medical institutions (American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics) , the American Medical Association, etc.) have adopted this treatment. The position that gender-affirming care is medically necessary.
Left untreated, studies show that individuals with gender dysphoria are at increased risk of self-harm and suicidal thoughts. For adults, studies have found that medical interventions (including hormone replacement therapy and surgery) to treat gender dysphoria significantly reduce the potential for these adverse mental health effects.
These treatments may be more effective early in life, before puberty causes them to have physical characteristics that are inconsistent with their gender identity.Transgender adults in the United States, Jan. A Stanford University study, based on the largest-ever survey of .
Studies like that are why those who treat trans people say the care they provide has nothing to do with politics.
“It’s just health care,” said Joshua Safer, a physician and executive director of the Mount Sinai Transgender Medical and Surgical Center.
Safer has supported the development of science-based guidelines for treating transgender adults and children for the international medical organization Endocrinology Society and the Transgender and Gender Contributed to the recent update of standards of care for diverse populations.
Safer said there was no evidence that doctors were over-treating transgender youth. If anything, it is “underestimation” and “gap”.
