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"Dont be trans, dont do gay stuff"
It obviously worked swimmingly for teen pregnancy, should work perfectly. /s
Pretty sure the "behavioral interventions" just means practicing safe sex, i.e. using protection, communicating honestly with sexual partners, avoiding truck stop bathroom hookups, only dating within your species, etc.
It's a dog whistle for homophobia. Conservatives still think AIDS is "the gay disease."
Edit: see commenter below.
I hope that's all it means, but growing up when it was still normal to send your kid to conversion therapy I worry it could mean other things.
It really wasn't that long ago that being anything other than 100% straight (at least openly) was treated like a mental illness. I think the DSM listed homosexuality as an official mental illness until the 80s.
The avenues for trans kids is conversion therapy, or the dog-whistle "faith based counseling"; seen with the recent federal insurance ban on covering HRT but explicitly calling out conversion therapy coverage. A practice which is banned in several states but has been challenged by conservatives claiming that banning the torture of kids infringes on their "free speech"
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