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b"Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.\\nLast Friday, a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in middle, high school, and college sports passed in the West Virginia legislature. At least 20 different state legislatures have introduced transgender athlete bans in 2021. While South Dakota\\u2019s governor Kristi Noem vetoed a proposed ban, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi have signed these changes into law.\\xa0\\nArkansas\\u2019 governor, Asa Hutchinson, did, however, veto legislation that would have banned gender confirming treatments or sex reassignment surgery for transgender youth under 18. That bill would have been the first in the country to ban this practice. Meanwhile, last Monday, GOP legislators in North Carolina introduced a bill that that would prevent doctors from performing sex reassignment surgery for transgender people under the age of 21.\\xa0\\nThis flurry of state bills\\u2014a month ago LGBT advocacy group Human Rights Campaign had counted more than 80\\u2014has once again provoked impassioned fighting, much of it centered around children. It\\u2019s led to questions of fairness in youth sports, if adolescent judgement and diagnosis should be trusted, and what role and what say parents should have in how their children express their gender.\\nMark Yarhouse is a pyschology professor at Wheaton College and the director of the\\xa0Sexual and\\xa0Gender Identity Institute. His books include Understanding Gender Dysphoria and most recently, Emerging Gender Identities. He joined global media manager Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen on this week\\u2019s episode of Quick to Listen.\\nWhat is Quick to Listen?\\xa0Read more\\nRate Quick to Listen on\\xa0Apple Podcasts\\nFollow the podcast on\\xa0Twitter\\nFollow our hosts on Twitter:\\xa0Morgan Lee\\xa0and\\xa0Ted Olsen\\nFollow our guest on Twitter: Mark Yarhouse\\nGo down Ted's music rabbit hole\\nMusic by\\xa0Sweeps\\nQuick to Listen is produced by\\xa0Morgan Lee\\xa0and\\xa0Matt Linder\\nThe transcript is edited by\\xa0Yvonne Su\\xa0and\\xa0Bunmi Ishola\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"