“Brad, I implore you to leave the decisions of medical care to the parents and medical professionals,” Christy Florence wrote to her brother, state House Rep. Brad Daw. “Trust the experts. They know what they are doing.”
But experts warned that even a less draconian effort than Utah's — which would permit the use of puberty blockers but not cross-sex hormones — could have unintended consequences.
"Puberty blockers are an important component of care for transgender youth; however, they are insufficient on their own," said Dr. Jack Turban, a resident psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the puberty study."Guidelines set forth by major medical organizations, including the Endocrine Society, explain that hormonal treatments like estrogen and testosterone are also needed.
Without cross-sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone, Turban added, trans adolescents who wish to suppress puberty may not see proper bone development. Turban also noted that genital surgery for minors, which would reportedly be banned in Daw's bill, already goes against existing medical guidelines.
"At the end of the day, legislators should not pick away individual steps of established medical protocols they do not fully understand," Turban said."It is a recipe for unintended and dangerous medical consequences."
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