Statehouses around the country this year have been consumed by fights over laws governing transgender people.
Seventeen states during their most recent legislative sessions passed restrictions on medical care for transgender people, joining just three other states that passed similar bans in the last two years.
A series of other laws passed regulate which bathrooms transgender people can use and whether schools can affirm transgender children’s identities.
A federal judge in Arkansas last week struck down that state’s law forbidding medical treatments for children and teenagers seeking gender transitions.
Amid the fighting, it’s easy to overlook the text of the laws themselves, which can get clinical very quickly.
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Arkansas, Florida