Nebraska mandates trans kids undergo a mandatory five months of conversion therapy — which is inherently what any "non gender affirming" care is — before being able to access proper medical care.
"A new set of regulations released on Monday morning by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services spells out several new restriction on transgender youth in the state. The restrictions, allowed under a new law passed by the Nebraska legislature this year, would curtail gender affirming care for those under the age of 19, the age of majority in the state. While several restrictions are poised to create hurdles for those seeking care, one in particular stands out as especially troubling: a mandate that all trans youth seeking treatment undergo five months of therapy that is “not in a gender affirming context,” a nod to a novel form of conversion therapy championed by those opposed to gender-affirming care."
In fact they specifically require trans youth to undergo psychological gaslighting to convince them that their transness is actually the product of some underlying mental health condition or disorder:
"The guidelines also state that the therapy has to probe for other “mental and physical health conditions” that the guidelines claim may be “driving the patients distress.”"
Because we all know they're not going to just check for the possibility of those underlying causes — they'll keep searching until they find even the tiniest hint of something they can latch onto and manipulate into a reason they're not "truly trans" with bullshit psychoanalysis. If they find out you didn't have a good relationship with your father, or your mother, or you're gay, or you're autistic, or have masculine hobbies or had a certain specific crush in middle school. There's always something. Because the goal isn't just to check for plausible alternatives, it's to keep searching UNTIL they find some reason each and every trans kid isn't trans, because they don't believe anyone is trans. They start with a presupposed conclusion, and so they'll just keep going forever until they find some "proof" of it no matter how flimsy.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nebraska-to-force-5-months-of-non
