All the major medical organizations support gender affirming care, support patient-doctor relationships, and support keeping politics out of medicine. We have lots of data showing that we can do this safely. We have study after study after study showing that gender affirming care, in particular, can improve mental health.
Yet, we’re being told the opposite in the media, so the public is hearing a different story when that’s not what’s supported by the data.
Physicians have dedicated their lives, their 20s, the majority of their time, effort, and earning potential, to learning the nuance and complexity of medicine. There’s just no way for a lawmaker to learn all of that. We saw this all the way back to the Loving Act, and we saw this with the women’s rights movement.
We have a ton of way to go with other civil rights and racial equality, but I think we’re seeing each generation have this big, giant social upheaval and then, hopefully, reach a place of acceptance.
I hope, I truly hope, that acceptance is our next step.
