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Montana Ban on Trans Care for Minors Has Been Blocked
Finally some hope on this.
because it violated the right to privacy and free speech. He also said the ban’s claim that there’s no medical consensus on HRT is irrelevant, the ban is supposed to prove a ‘medically acknowledged, bona fide health risk exists.’
If some disagreement among medical professionals were enough to create a medically acknowledged, bona fide health risk, every medical treatment would … be subject to state interference.
I gotta say, it would be nice if the current head of the HHS thought this.
Over and over, I hear ‘gender critics’ talking about how supposedly real scientific process should involve randomized, controlled trials but then outright ignore the fact that the scientific method requires peer review.
You can’t just listen to the first crank that confirms your priors.
You’re just switching informed, scientific consensus for popular consensus.
Is it okay to take a vote on how a child is gonna live their life? The GOP claims they’ve outgrown stuff like this but they really haven’t. They say they’re the real champions of free speech, but how does that work when you’re passing laws reporting a kid’s PRONOUNS to…