Local doctor with transgender son says bill blocks ‘best treatment’ for transgender youth
Submitted Photograph A picture of Charlie Crowder at Purdue College. A long-time medical professional in Columbus who has a transgender son claims that a proposal to ban gender-affirming care in Indiana sends a “really harmful message” and would block “what we know is the ideal treatment” for some transgender youth. Indiana Republicans advanced a bill final week prohibiting transgender youth under 18 from acquiring puberty blockers, hormone remedy and surgical procedures to deal with gender dysphoria, treatments that doctors and…