Photo courtesy Rep. Kathy Rapp’s Facebook page Rep. Kathy Rapp is pictured fourth from the left at a recent news conference in Harrisburg.

Rep. Kathy Rapp was among those who took part in a recent news conference to release data on gender affirming treatment in Pennsylvania.

The Warren Republican didn’t speak at the event, though she posted about the news conference on her Facebook page.

“I joined fellow Republican members of the House Health Committee’s Subcommittee on Health Care and other lawmakers to address newly released data concerning the treatment of gender dysphoric youth in Pennsylvania medical facilities,” Rapp wrote.

At least 26 states have adopted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and most of those states face lawsuits. Federal judges have struck down the bans in Arkansas and Florida as unconstitutional, though a federal appeals court has stayed the Florida ruling. A judge’s orders are in place to temporarily block enforcement of the ban in Montana. New Hampshire restrictions are to take effect in January.

Texas has sued a Dallas doctor over accusations of providing gender-affirming care to youths, marking one of the first times a state has sought to enforce recent bans driven by Republicans.

The lawsuit announced by Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Oct. 16 alleges that Dr. May Lau, a physician in the Dallas area, provided hormones to over 20 minors in violation of a Texas ban that took effect last year. It is the first time Texas has tried to enforce the law, said Harper Seldin, a staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. He also said he was not aware of other states that have tried to enforce similar bans.

Pennsylvania has no such bans, though Rapp noted two Pennsylvania hospitals that rank among the top 12 hospitals in such surgeries nationally.

“An organization called Do No Harm Medicine put together the “Stop the Harm” database, a first-of-its-kind resource that exposes the worst-offending children’s hospitals offering so-called “gender-affirming care” to minors. It also tracks the most prolific medical practitioners performing these treatments and the board membership of the institutions orchestrating these interventions,” Rapp said. “According to this database, two of the nation’s worst-offending hospitals are Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.”