“There is fierce debate over how best to help minors with gender dysphoria,”
Except amongst doctors, therapists, and other professionals there isn’t. Studies upon studies show that affirming children in their identity leads to demonstrably better health outcomes. The controversy is coming from a coordinated and well funded astroturfing campaign meant to use the well-being of trans-kids as a wedge issue. Funded, in part by the same people wining and dining Clarence and Ginny Thomas by the way. Even if there were a controversy conversion “therapy” wouldn’t be part of it as that. Reims of data has shown it to be torture.
In Thomas’s five-page dissent on Monday, he said Washington’s ban [on conversion therapy for minors] had “silenced one side of this debate” by restricting the First Amendment rights of medical professionals. “Licensed counselors cannot voice anything other than the state-approved opinion on minors with gender dysphoria without facing punishment.
So does he believe it’s a violation of the first amendment for punishing an attorney rights to advise their client to lie under oath? Or a doctor who advises a patient that they need more lead in their diets?