Two states in the southern United States have advanced laws limiting access to gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth, as part of a wave of Republican-led legislation critics decry as discriminatory and dangerous.Kentucky and West Virginia join at least nine other states in implementing restrictions on treatments that leading medical groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics say can be necessary and even life-saving for transgender young people.But proponents of the restrictions argue that people under the age of 18 are too young to undergo gender-affirming treatments, which can range from temporary, reversible measures like puberty blockers — which pause sexual development — to hormone treatment and surgery.
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