It took years for Joanna Brantz son Dylan to just feel like himself.

I had to make tough decisions over those years for him.

Always thinking first of his safety and wellbeing.

Dylan is 15. A few years back, he came out as trans.

Joanna says she did a ton of research, talked with doctors about their options,

and they decided he would begin gender affirming therapy.

That's an umbrella term that can include puberty blockers, talk therapy,

and in Dylan's case, hormone treatment.

Today, after two years of therapy, doctors visits, Dylan is happy, healthy, confident, and hopeful for his future.

Now Joanna Brantz is afraid that those years of work could be undone,

because she and her son live in Arkansas, where a new law would make the hormone therapy

that Dylan receives illegal.

My son will be devastated if he is forced to stop his hormone treatment.

The new bill is called the Save Adolescence from Experimentation or Safe Act.

It would outlaw puberty blockers, hormone treatment, and transition-related surgeries for kids under 18.

This week it passed the state legislature, and it's now waiting for the governor's signature.

All of the progress that he has made, all of the plans to be able to graduate from high school

and go off to college, presenting outwardly in the full expression of how he feels on the inside,

would come to a screeching halt.

The ACLU, which organized the press conference where Joanna Brantz spoke this week,

called the Arkansas Bill the single most extreme anti-trans law to ever pass through a state legislature.

And there are many others like it under consideration in dozens of states,

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