yeah, not a victory in my eyes - just pushing things further into us vs them. This makes it look like any concerns about the trans issue are confirmed as part of the uneducated christian right. It also shows makes it seem like the attitude is not compassionate or open to figuring out an answer but simply an excuse to punish anyone who's different. Requiring a minimum age of 18, or having malpractice laws, would make sense to me but making it a felony sounds like they're going to send in a squad of police to a doctor's office and then throw you in prison. Maybe it's just the way it's worded - does it just mean they are requiring it by state law?

Anyway, I hope there can be some moderate or progressive politicians to see the other side of this issue before it is completely split as an untouchable, which party are you, position. We have too many of those already.

Sometimes I think we have to just rewrite the constitution to have a parliament democracy, so we have multiple parties. This two party thing is not good for anyone.