Has a Transgender Tipping Point Been Reached? By Mrs. Abigail Knight (Florida)
What is a transgender tipping point? Is it like some cosmological process, where a star starts to burn out its nuclear fuel, and gets ready to go supernova: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova. Apparently not:
"The past three years have been painful for transgender-identified young people.
Republicans have blanketed the nation with bans on gender-transition treatments for minors, often pairing them with restrictions on trans bathroom access and sports participation.
The latter has become of national interest as athletes like Lia Thomas and Riley Gaines battle for each side in public.
These laws have descended many families into crisis and even drove some to flee to bluer states.
The years to come are expected to bring more turmoil for these vulnerable youths as the walls close in on pediatric gender medicine.
Most consequentially, the Supreme Court is poised to rule on the constitutionality of Tennessee's ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for treating gender-related distress in minors.
Oral arguments are set to begin on December 4 and legal experts expect the state will prevail.
The court's decision could herald an end to pediatric gender-transition treatment in about two dozen states.
Blue states won't be able to guarantee refuge, as access to these controversial interventions is expected to narrow even where they remain legal.
Stakeholders predict that, at a minimum, pediatric gender doctors will become far more cautious as this field is pummeled by lawsuits, subpoenas, and negative research reports.
These unrelenting forces could all but end pediatric gender-transition treatment nationwide in the years to come.
"Everything is on the line," Chase Strangio, a trans-rights litigator at the ACLU, acknowledged on a recent podcast."
Indeed, it is, for all things must pass, all things must fade away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWV4pFV5nX4
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