The ACLU is suing to stop Texas from persecuting parents that enable their transgender children to get puberty-delaying or sex-change medical treatment.

I've learned that such treatment is very effective against depression and suicide among trans youth. So I am very much in favor of making it available.

But I think we need to have an objective way to refer to the treatments we are talking about, one that doesn't incorporate a built-in stance about them. I don't like the term "gender-affirming treatments" because it tries to twist people's arms to approve of them. I'd rather approve of them by my own free choice.