It’s increasingly difficult for transgender youth to get the health care they need. Over the past two years, a swath of US states have made it illegal for minors to receive gender-affirming treatments like puberty blockers and hormone treatments. That’s fostered a dangerous climate for trans kids and their parents and created a new class of health-care refugees. Some can cross state lines to receive treatment, but doing so is much more difficult than crossing the border for, say, an abortion.
When Florida Judge Robert Hinkle blocked the state’s attempts to ban minors from receiving gender-affirming therapies, he stated the obvious: “The statute and the rules were an exercise in politics, not good medicine.”
