For Mother's Day, I Want Lawmakers to Stop Blocking Care for Trans Kids | Opinion
legislation limiting access to gender-affirming health care for young people. And 22 states criminalize health care professionals who administer this medically necessary, standard-of-care treatment for trans youth.I'm the mother of a transgender daughter.
I know how critical gender-affirming care was—and is—for her very existence.All the major medical and pediatric associations recognize gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers, to be the standard of care treatment for minors.
Less than 1 percent of minors who take puberty blockers change their mind—but for that 1 percent, the effects are 100 percent reversible.
In that case, the doctor helps them stop the blockers, and puberty resumes.What's not reversible is puberty itself.If a child is born a transgender girl, as my child was, allowing male puberty would force her to grow facial hair and develop an Adam's apple, as well as a deep voice.
