> Instead, you use the word that, as best I understand the English language, signals political support "Preponderance of the evidence" has a very concrete lega

> Instead, you use the word that, as best I understand the English language, signals political support "Preponderance of the evidence" has a very concrete legal definition, one that is very easy to Google. The qualifier "very firmly" implies that the evidence for is overwhelming. > I've yet to see how anything you refer to is "health care" in any useful meaning of the word. Transgender health care ranges from options as dicey as surgery (any surgery is dicey by definition, though some such as Orchiectomy are ambulatory and can be done under local anesthesia) to medication such as puberty blockers and hormones. And access to this sort of health care is being threatened for children, adults that are older than the common standard of 18 but lower than some arbitrary number pulled out of some lawmakers posterior, and even all adults, period. > they need for survival It is necessary for survival in the same way that anti-depressents are a non-negotiable necessary for some folks to function - except gender-affirming care has _much_ more consistently positive outcomes. There is of course one more obvious difference between the two. The existence of anti-depressants don't cause insecure men to be terrified that the next woman they catcall might have been born with male genitalia.