It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Later in the show today,

we'll talk about how two news stories in the last 24 hours show how transgender people are being put in kind of a political

vice, a legal and medical catch-22, you might say. To give you a brief preview, because I don't

see other people tying these two stories together yet. The LPGA, the Ladies Professional Golf

Association and the USGA announced a rule yesterday that beginning next month, no transgender golfer will be allowed to compete unless they had medically transitioned to female before hitting puberty.

No transgender golfer will be allowed to compete unless they had medically transitioned to female before hitting puberty.

The league said they wanted to balance competitive fairness with respecting people's identities.

Their medical inquiry concluded that the effects of male puberty confer competitive advantages.

So they set the bar there.

Beginning January 1st, no transgender golfer will be allowed to compete

unless they had medically transitioned to female before hitting puberty.

People are debating that standard, but let's say it's fair.

Here's the catch 22.

The Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments about a Tennessee law that would ban

puberty blockers and other gender affirming medical care for anyone under 18.

See the problem?

See the catch 22?

You can't compete at your sport unless you block male puberty before it occurs,

but the law in Tennessee makes that illegal at the necessary age. And by the way, it's not just

Tennessee. By NPR's count, 24 states, half the country in the last three years, 24 states,

all it's almost half the states, all controlled by Republicans,

now restrict doctors from providing puberty blockers, hormone therapies, or surgery,

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