Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for the important testimony we're hearing today.
Outside of the products that we know are so important, there have been discussions today around the impacts on public life, the ability to earn an income, the impact on the ability to take part in public life.
My questions will start with Ayla Banks.
You used the words “health, growth and success”. I think for this study there's an opportunity to have recommendations from testimony, so I wonder if you wouldn't mind sharing. How does not having access to these products—going through the stigma—affect opportunities? What are the opportunity costs? What are the effects longitudinally over a lifetime? How can we make changes at the federal level to make it better?