We had, in our most respected medical facilities, numerous women subjected to extremely painful ovarian harvesting with no pain relief and it turns out a nurse was stealing pain medication from the patients for YEARS. You cannot seriously suggest bringing back yet another widely abused institution when our current institutions already abuse people to a horrific, systemic extent, as if it will solve anything.
If someone is proposing forced asylums you have got to grapple with the fact that Florida legislature considers being transgender a mental disorder and that Florida is fully willing to try and weaponize social services and child protective services to attack families with transgender members. You can't just gloss over that, you have to understand how a state like Florida will immediately try to weaponize an expanded system of forced asylums.
"We'll just have strong standards that prevent abuse" -- how? A nontrivial number of states right now are actively trying to use medical standards to oppress or eliminate a minority group. I'm sure Texas is going to have great standards on when the State can lock someone in an asylum. /s