Biased Science: The Texas and Alabama Measures Criminalizing Medical Treatment for Transgender Children and Adolescents Rely on Inaccurate and Misleading Scientific Claims

Employing dissemination and implementation science to promote mental health equity for transgender youth

“…For instance, Connecticut Bill HB6695, 76 which sought to ban conversion therapy, was successfully passed in 2017 after the team submitted public and written testimony citing research on its detrimental effects. 77,78 Olezeski and her colleagues also provided public testimony to prevent the passage of laws restricting the provision of gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth in Texas, Alabama, 79 and Florida. 80,81 Such efforts required the team to stay abreast of local and national legislative activities.…”

Nursing as total institution

“…Moreover, in the United States, draconian state legislation mobilizes nurses as agents of the state via mandated reporting of care that has been deemed criminal in nature (Jenkins et al, 2023). Examples of this include mandated reporting of perinatal substance use, suspected abortion, and nurses are increasingly required to nonconsensually report patients to law enforcement for seeking care that has been deemed criminal in nature: perinatal patients with substance dependence, patients seeking abortion and gender‐affirming care services, and more (Including, e.g., Boulware et al, 2022; Faherty et al, 2019; Narea, 2022. Other examples will surely follow.).…”