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You should be able to download the Utah report at https://le.utah.gov/AgencyRP/reportingDetail.jsp?rid=636

Be warned it's over 1000 pages (and the downloaded file had an HTML file extension that I had to change to PDF so it would open properly, but that might be a technical issue for just me). There's also two links, one of which is a summary and not the full report.

"The conventional wisdom among non-experts has long been that there are limited data [on this topic]. However, results from our exhaustive literature searches have lead us to the opposite conclusion.”

So SCOTUS is justifying their decision with blatant lies and scaremongering about "child safety." It's just as valid as justifying racial segregation based on phrenology, or climate change denial "because it snows sometimes." It's science denial, plain and simple, in service of ideology.

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And here's the proof. Republicans in the state in Utah commissioned a study on transgender care, but they forgot to rig it with anti-trans researchers. The result is the most recent, most up to date, and most unbiased meta-study on transgender care. And here's the most important line in the whole thing:

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The problem is that everything in that quote (except the bit about policy debates) is completely untrue. The science is settled. The safety and efficacy are known. The field isn't even evolving all that much anymore; most of the treatments are 20 to 50 years old. There's no reasonable debate, there's only unreasonable debate. What Roberts wrote is 90% bullshit, and the other ten percent is "is it ok to encode bigotry into law."

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