[plantwallshoe]

We need some consistency here.

If you, your child, and your doctor all agree that taking hormones and puberty blockers is the best thing for them, it should be allowed.

If you, your child, and your doctor all agree that the best thing for them is to take conversion therapy, then that should be allowed.

[bediger4000]

With all due respect, observing a lack of consistency usually means that a "hidden variable" remains to be discovered. Perhaps if we take a holistic view of recent SCOTUS decisions, we could apprehend a hidden variable or two.

I conjecture that conservative culture war topics are the hidden variable(s) and that the Roberts Court is forcing a conservative view on all these issues, whether there's a constitutional, logical, or precedent reason or not.

[mackeye]

what!? conversion therapy does not work. if you, your child, and your doctor all agree that the best thing for them is a lobotomy, should that be allowed?

[throwawaymaths]

is there evidence that puberty blockers work? IIRC the original report is the only one that reported an effect and subsequent studies done more carefully show no net effect more than potential selection bias and plenty of physiological repercussions

[plantwallshoe]

Yeah probably