In just the past couple of years, over a dozen U.S. states have passed laws or policies

that ban or heavily restrict gender affirming care for minors.

A new role affecting transgender youth in Florida could take effect at any time now.

Florida health leaders met-

GOP lawmakers in Kentucky passed legislation to ban gender affirming care for transgender

minors in the state.

On the Capitol watch, I don't know now has a law preventing gender affirming care for children.

Governor Little sighed.

Opponents of those measures have sued to block them in some cases successfully.

At the same time, a number of other states have passed bills to protect access to gender

affirming care for young people.

Here's Minnesota's Democratic Governor Tim Walls, speaking last month on the day he signed

an executive order to that effect.

We want every Minnesota to grow up feeling safe, value protected, celebrated, and free

to exist as their authentic versions of themselves.

No many medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy

of Pediatrics, endorse gender affirming care for trans kids.

They say treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy are safe, medically necessary,

and potentially life-saving.

The politicians who oppose gender affirming care tend to paint a very different picture.

They talk about protecting children from harm.

Here's Iowa's Governor Kim Reynolds, speaking at a news conference, talking about families

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