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No "thorough investigation" is being done in the US. European countries have halted this treatment because of a paucity of data and evidence of poor outcomes. But the US just ploughs ahead regardless - perhaps a symptom of its for-profit health care system, each transed kid is worth many $$$ in lifetime treatment. So for legislatures to ban this, is the only reasonable path forward to save kids from this type of medical abuse.

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That could all very well be true, but in that case it feels like most Republican lawmakers have arrived at the right conclusion by accident.