The latest way for a state to demonstrate its progressive bona fides is to announce that it will allow even vulnerable children to seek out transgender "health care" within its borders:

Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order to help protect gender affirming health care in Maryland during a LGBTQIA+ reception Monday evening.

The executive order will help protect individuals receiving and providing gender affirming treatment in Maryland from facing legal punishments in other states. The order makes Maryland a safe haven for people from other states seeking access to gender affirming care.

When they say "individuals," of course, they mean "children" as well. That's inarguable. The language of the order does not make any exceptions for the age of the treatment recipient, and in any event the directive offers explicit protections for anyone who "traveled to Maryland to obtain gender-affirming treatment that is permitted under the laws of this State for themselves or a child for whom they are the parent or legal guardian."

What that means, of course, is that if you have one parent who wants to prevent their child from getting mutilated by insane surgeons, and another who wants to help make it happen, the latter parent can drag the child to Maryland for the barbaric surgery and the former will have no way to prevent it.

And yes, they will go that low in Maryland. The University of Maryland Children's Hospital stipulates that it will begin offering transgender "medical treatments" to children as young as 10 years old.

Disgraceful stuff, Maryland. This will NOT end well.