Opinion | How the Cass Report Became a Weapon in the War on Trans Kids - The New York Times

The Tennessee law, called the Protecting Children From Gender Mutilation Act, prohibits the use of puberty-blocking medications for transgender adolescents, for example, but permits them for children who go into puberty at an early age. It bans the use of sex hormones like testosterone in transgender adolescents but allows it for other health issues, such as for children assigned male at birth. It bans gender-affirming surgeries for transgender adolescents — such surgeries are extremely rare — but allows similar surgical procedures that affirm the sex a child is assigned at birth, even on infants who are intersex… 

Lawyers arguing in favor of these bans have taken a sharply different approach. In a striking echo of the arguments used to challenge medical abortion, they have asserted, against the consensus of the mainstream medical science, that the standard treatments for transgender children are not based in evidence and represent a grave risk to the health and well-being of young people…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/opinion/cass-report-trans-kids.html