This a wealth of studies showing cigarettes and beer negatively affect your health, while gender affirming cares improves and extends it. These are not even remotely comparable.
Gender affirming surgeries have a lower regret rate than Harry Potter tattoos
I imagine gender affirming care as a whole is even lower (since not everyone wants surgery)
Can confirm anecdotally. Have a Harry Potter tattoo from when I was 18, am trans. Only one of them I regret and it’s not transitioning.
Out of curiosity how bad we talking here? Like are we talking deathly hallows symbol, or Dobby.Goatse.Cx?
Edit: for fucks sake it made a link, I am not touching that thing. Click at thine own perril.
This law bars puberty blockers and his reasoning was based on reassingment surgery being a permanent choice.
Fuck this clown.
They genuinely don’t care what gender affirming care even is. I’ve seen so many conservatives wailing about surgery on kids, when 99% of gender care is using the right name and pronouns plus hormone blockers. Like fuck, I wish they were just handing out surgeries! I’d really love a phalloplasty, but my insurance excludes any gender confirmation surgery for adults!
I think it’s because the term ‘gender affirming care’ is explicitly chosen to be able to include surgery. If it’s 99% about reversible hormone treatment, maybe that needs to be decoupled in order to make it more acceptable to the public
The problem is, trans people are very vocal about this, people don’t want to listen! I see so many comments about chopping dicks off - that’s not even how bottom surgery works.
Trying to “decouple” does nothing, because these people are going to be deliberately disingenuous. Notice how all often the news headline is “judge bans sex change surgery for youth” - it’s a lie, and it’s on purpose.
The reality is that gender affirming care is mostly hormones. Bottom surgery is prohibitively expensive and rarely covered by insurance. Rarely I’ve heard of teens having breast reductions, but it’s also 100% legal and accepted to get a cisgender 16 year old a breast enhancement.
I don’t think they are. I never read or hear anything about gender affirming care being limited to things that are reversible. It’s a deliberate euphemism that can be used for anything. If the fight isn’t about irreversible changes, why not separate the two so at least one can get accepted?
I’m personally against the breast enhancements for children that you mention as well, but in that case I think it’s generally accepted as tattoo’s are: with permission from the parents and not paid by the public.
Wonder how many of those who oppose gender affirming surgery still support circumcision.
Oh man that reminds me when my friends and I would sneak off after gym and go around behind the basketball courts to affirm our gender. Good times, good times.
We were young and easily fooled, my homie ate bull testicles to get more T and girl was chuggin’ milk because Estrogen wasn’t available otherwise. Did this every week or so, and look where we are now with our syringes, 100% entry drugs.
Wright County Circuit Court Judge Craig Carter wrote, “If we don’t let a 16-year-old buy a six-pack of beer and a pack of smokes
I am normally the last person to give a shit about overly informal language, but for fucks fucking sake Missouri, you couldn’t find one person in your state with the intellectual capacity to realize that “If the state does not permit the purchase of alcohol nor tobacco by minors” maybe sounds a bit more serious? Like, the actual ruling itself is an offensive embarrassment, but I really can’t get over the fact that it’s written like a freakin facebook post.
Get ready for 4 years of government officials trying not to sound too ‘elitist’
The English language will eventually deteriorate into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, Inner City, and various grunts.
As a Redneck with a less than intelligent dialect, I find this concept annoying. I can at least use big words, I am just bad at expressing my ideas. The last part aint even the dialect its the Autism.
No more testosterone and bonner pills for the boomers.
It’s like they try really hard to miss the point of pretty much anything and everything. The analogy makes zero fucking sense. It’s always just a bunch of twisting words and ideas to suit their backwards ass views.
Reed maintained the hospital treated many patients with mental health problems without comprehensive psychological evaluations; at trial, there was disagreement over whether a licensed therapist’s evaluation was enough to warrant gender-affirming care or if a psychologist or psychiatrist should be a requirement.
Therapist: spends hours establishing a relationship with the patients in order to gain a fundamental understanding of their issues.
Psychiatrist: Try these pills, idk.
All this establishes that mental healthcare in this country is a fucking joke.
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Well we’ll just have to start celebrating trans kids coming of age like a sweet 16 or quinceanera except unbelievably gay. Sucks for the kids hard to not have access to puberty blockers and hrt (for older teens).
Unless the Democrats grow a spine and put up a fight (I’m looking at you Miss represent-all-Delawareans-except-the-trans-ones) the only thing we’re going to be able to do is try to frame it as a rite of passage for trans kiddos.
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