US Laws Restricting Medical Care for Transgender Minors: Statutory Inconsistencies Involving Intersex and Other Individuals

US Laws Restricting Medical Care for Transgender Minors: Statutory Inconsistencies Involving Intersex and Other Individuals, in JAMA Health Forum

key takeaway: "This Special Communication reviewed statutes restricting gender-affirming medical care in all US jurisdictions and found that all US laws restricting medical procedures that modify benign sexual anatomy in transgender minors apply regardless of the minor’s consent/assent, parental permission, or clinical best-interests judgments. The same laws allow parents and clinicians to pursue similar procedures when performed on intersex and other presumptively nontransgender minors, even absent the minor’s consent/assent."