Similar proposals to restrict gender-affirming care for minors appeared in statehouses across the U.S. this year. An AP analysis found the legislation was often pre-written and shopped out by a handful of conservative interest groups.
FILE - State Rep. Barry Usher, R-Billings, speaks during a meeting of the Joint Rules Committee on the House floor at the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont., on Dec. 7, 2020. The dozens of statehouse bills to restrict health care for transgender youths were in many cases not born of grassroots despair and a groundswell of constituent demand, but were pre-written and shopped out by a handful of conservative interest groups.
Many of this year’s statehouse proposals to restrict gender-affirming care for youths, as introduced or enacted, are identical or very similar to
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