Judge compares gender-affirming care to cigarettes & beer while upholding youth ban

Reed maintained the hospital treated many patients with mental health problems without comprehensive psychological evaluations; at trial, there was disagreement over whether a licensed therapist’s evaluation was enough to warrant gender-affirming care or if a psychologist or psychiatrist should be a requirement.

Therapist: spends hours establishing a relationship with the patients in order to gain a fundamental understanding of their issues.

Psychiatrist: Try these pills, idk.

All this establishes that mental healthcare in this country is a fucking joke.