US judges halt healthcare bans for transgender youth
US judges halt healthcare bans for transgender youth
In state after state, conservative lawmakers this year have banned medical procedures for transgender youth. Now, a growing number of federal judges are blocking those laws from taking effect.
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There was all kinds of stupid misinformation being spread before the ban here in Indiana. People thinking kids were getting "mutilated" on a daily basis in Indiana when there wasn't a single healthcare facility in the state that has ever performed gender-affirming surgery on minors. I'm glad this was struck down. It will prevent suicides.
It's their scare tactics. They want to make it seem like trans people are a legitimate concern to cis people so they pull a lot of this " Of you were young today you could have been chemically castrated just because you liked Barbie as a kid!"
Meanwhile the team that actually works with trans kids is most often a team of four. A social worker, a therapist trained and familiar in dealing with trans paitents, a pediatrician and an endocrinologist. Surgery isn't an option until late teens and those surgeries are usually just breast reductions that normal regular old cis girls are also able to get if they want. HRT isn't offered unless they have an incredibly solid psych profile and the kid has been socially living as the other gender for literal years and they use reversible puberty blockers as long as they can. Yeah, physical transition that young does mean that infertility is a likely outcome... But not everyone looks at having genetically related kids as being a nessisary part of their experience.
People don't tend to pick interventions if the medicine is worse than what ails you. These kids are capable of making reasonable decisions in their late teens with the assistance of multiple experts who walk them through every potential physical drawback of their choice and these kids already know the social cost of being openly trans and of being closeted. That's part of the process. They are an incredibly personally educated demographic because to successfully get HRT as a late teen you need to be an eloquent and enthusiastic self advocate in the face of medical inertia. If they don't think you are reasonably mature and intelligent to make that decision they err on the side of therapy.
They certainly get a lot more help and support before they begin any non-surgical procedure compared to teen girls who get nose jobs because their parents can afford to pay for them. And no one calls that mutilation or says that kids are too young to decide whether or not they should get a nose job. Do they consult doctors or therapists before deciding to get one? No. They just go to the plastic surgeon and set up a time for the surgery.
Same here in Florida. But they fail to realize circumcising is mutilating a child but that precocious puberty exists and many people use hrt and blockers for non trans related things.
As of right now, adults in Florida are “banned” from getting their meds bc they still haven’t created the form they want the MDs to sign yet.
So they preemptively blocked NP and LPNs from offering care but then still haven’t created the form to be signed by MDs, effectively creating a significant blockage as most clinics only had 1-2 MDs if that and they have to be seen in person now as tele health is also banned.
It’s honestly ridiculous what they are making people do.
Oh yeah, I love asking these people talking about mutilating children what they think of circumcision and why, if they are against it, they aren't this vocal about it.
This is exactly what I thought too. Sad you don't see the same energy being thrown at ending this practice.
They aren't against it for 2 main reasons:
- They had it done to them (if they have a penis) and they're fine so it's normal, and OK, and not a crime (right?) ....
- They want to fit in and peer pressure is strong and they aren't strong enough to balk against it or tell a dr. "no".
I have a cousin that's trans that's leaving the state. This is exactly what the Republicans want.