Of the 70 million minors living in the US, fewer than 20,000 received prescriptions for puberty blockers or hormone therapy in the five-year period covering 2017-2021. That's about three one-hundredths of one percent. It's not quite as rare as getting struck by lightning or death by drowning, but it's in the same ballpark. Absent demagoguery for the express purpose of creating moral panic, that's not much of a "policy issue."
