In Florida, Senate Bill 254, enacted in May, banned gender-affirming care for minors but also created less-noticed barriers for adult care.
The state laws largely intervene to stop gender-affirming medical care around adolescence: treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and later, in rare cases, surgery.
Medical consensus favors gender-affirming care as essential and sometimes life-saving, after careful consideration by multiple providers.
But he also said gender-affirming medical treatments were extreme.
Colorado has not enacted restrictions on gender-affirming care.
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