Great thread. Not a perfect analogy at all, but cigarette smoking rate didn't go down because of a ban on tobacco. It was public education, lawsuits, reduction in places it was OK to smoke, & a slow, steady erosion of societal acceptance of the practice. Mostly public education.
.... most ppl STILL have no clue what the issues are w/ the "trans kid" movemtn. Bans by extremist social conservatives may cement the (wrong) perception that only extremist social conservatives (i.e. anti-gay, no-abortion-under-any-circumstances) object to child transition.
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