Bingo, Belisarius. Gender reassignment surgery wasn't available to kids under 18 anyway. Hormone therapy wasn't available to teenagers without going through extensive consultations with physicians anyway. Other than an explicit ban on kids younger than 16 getting hormone treatments—which was already super-rare—that policy is de facto unchanged. (Although now it'll #### up treatment for cases of precocious puberty, which I'm sure the government didn't consider and didn't give a flying #### about anyway...)
It was all just cover to pass the far, far more insidious teachers-have-to-out-queer-kids policy, and mandatory daily opt-in to sex-ed policy. All that is designed to do is keep queer kids afraid of their parents, and create so much paperwork for schools that they'll reduce the teaching of sex-ed and keep kids ignorant.
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