minors

More than 20 states have banned the practice, which presses LGBTQ+ minors into disavowing their sexualities or identifying with the gender they were assigned at birth.

“There is a fierce public debate over how best to help minors with gender dysphoria,” Thomas said, and the state has “silenced one side of this debate.”

His resentencing was possible under a law that allows for sentence reductions for people convicted as minors and have spent more than 20 years in prison.

He authored the state House's version of a bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors in the state.

At 15, Skye sought to be legally emancipated because other child actors had done the same as a means of averting the legal requirements of minors on set.