Ohio is the latest battleground over controversial treatments for males who wish to appear as females or vice versa. Supporters call it “gender affirming care” while critics call it “gender denying.”
If some of the proposals supported by Governor Mike DeWine are enacted, Ohio will become the newest state to place restrictions on such treatments for either adults or children. The treatments include hormone therapies that have proven dangerous under some circumstances and aren’t FDA-approved for use in gender dysphoria, long labelled as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association. Treatments may also include disfiguring surgeries intended to mimic the appearance of the opposite sex.