Sen. Cotton’s bill if passed may eventually will put unscrupulous physicians out of business. But that’s too late. As a surgeon, I can forcefully state that we only do three things to people: we put stuff in, take stuff out, and/or rearrange ones innards. And once done, it is irreversible. And until this “gender-affirmative” care became faddish it was always at least a serious transgression of any self policing medical oversight board to treat, alter, or remove a normally functioning organ or tissue (with the possible exception of cosmetic plastic surgery).

If one uses the cosmetic surgery analysis and analogy and applies it to gender affirming care, it is instructive. Any plastic surgeon will provide sad examples of dissatisfied people who underwent purely elective cosmetic procedures with expectations beyond cosmetic enhancement.

So called “gender affirming care” is truly experimental especially in minors and must stop before more people are ruined. The data is coming in and as this article summarizes it is bad.