The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.

Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.

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    They’re coming for your guns healthcare. Next is your contraceptives.

    FWIW, they came for your porn in many GOP-controlled states.

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        This is not true. SCOTUS is taking on a case in the fall that asks if someone accused of or convicted of domestic abuse can be allowed to own a gun. Last term, they overturned New York State law on conceal carry.

        Bruen has actually made it almost impossible to make laws that restrict firearms ownership. Thomas wrote that ““the government must demonstrate that the regulation is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition.”

        In other words, if the framers didn’t think the Second Amendment should preclude people who are “mentally ill” then you can’t make a law that precludes people who are mentally ill.

        This is why the domestic abuse law will be toppled. At the time of the founding of the country, it was legal to rape your wife, who had no rights under the constitution.