Bans on Gender Affirming Care for Youth Reveal Purity Culture Is More Than Just an Evangelical Problem
…affirming care to youth. These bills follow a precedent set by Arkansas in 2021, where legislators passed the first bill of its kind. Although vetoes and court injunctions have permanently blocked Arkansas’s ban and temporarily blocked similar measures in some states, these bans are now active in many states. And, while the legislation isn’t generally couched in religious language, these bans impose a gender binary in which religion and law colla…
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