Here's a handy graphic you can share that summarizes the hypocrisy of the laws that now ban gender-affirming care for those under 18 in half the states.
All of them make an exception for intersex minors.The laws claim that puberty blockers are "experimental," "unproven," and putting patients' future bone health and fertility and body image at intolerable risk? That could be considered child abuse? Why, they are perfectly fine for intersex children. They're medically necessary! Proven, effective, and in use for decades.
Oh, and the genital reconstructions that absolutely nobody is performing on trans kids? Perfectly fine for intersex ones.
There are only two possible conclusions. One is that legislators really believe puberty blockers constitute torture and child abuse--and think it is fine to torture and abuse intersex young people. More likely is the second: that the people enacting these laws don't really believe they are protecting trans kids from medical harm. They just want to make being trans illegal, while continuing to impose unrequested sex-change procedures on intersex kids whose bodies make them uncomfortable.
