State Sen. Caroline Menjivar of Burbank, who penned the bill, has proposed an extended interpretation of "infertility," defined as: “A person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention.”
The hospital's Gender Clinic offers consultations for patients up to 18 years old with puberty specialists and hormone therapy experts, in addition to a “gender-affirming environment.”
"This bill is aptly named the Vulnerable Child Protection Act because it seeks to protect children with gender dysphoria from medical and surgical interventions that can cause permanent damage to their bodies before they are mature enough to make such serious health decisions," writes Idaho's Gov. Little.
an 18-year-old who identified as transgender in adolescence before outgrowing it, plans to sue the hospital system and health care providers involved in her medical transition.
As the Biden administration pushes the Department of Health and Human Services to make “gender-affirming health care” more widely available, HHS’s own National Institutes of Health is funding multiple studies premised upon how little research has been conducted on the long-term risks of taking cross-sex hormones and whether they improve mental health.
