It's disappointing that the generally dire state of gender care in the west - in terms of a lack of rigor (as complained about in this article), lack of consistent process, etc - is used mostly as an excuse to shut down clinics entirely or fully ban gender care even for consenting adults (in process in the US right now).

The high rates of mental health struggles and suicides in the general US population (including but not limited to people struggling with gender issues) are used as a tool for arguing that gender care somehow leads to people's deaths instead of as a tool to argue for comprehensive, no-cost mental health care for people of all races, genders and identities.

We're just handed the latest most fashionable bogeyman - drag queens doing book readings at the library, gender-questioning kids going to gender clinics, etc - and told that if only we Put A Stop To this, maybe things will be alright again. When in reality millions and millions of people are experiencing untold suffering right now, and we could make fundamental fixes to our medical system to help all of them instead of fixating specifically on a small subset of the population and helping extremist lawmakers ban entire categories of care, whether it be gender care or abortions or birth control.