> The government already has the power to do this — just ask any trans person in the South
Any citations on every trans person in the South being singled out for denial of services by the government? Because that sounds like inflammatory nonsense.
Banning gender affirming care effectively is singling out transgender people and denying them services[0]. Additionally there was a recent Supreme Court decision allowing businesses to discriminate against people[1].
Additionally in living memory, many businesses and government services were segregated by race. In some cases some races were denied access to services or those services were severely underfunded. The legacy of that legal system still has impacts today.