A federal judge says that DeSantis was spreading lies when he called gender-affirming care "mutilation...

A federal judge says that DeSantis was spreading lies when he called gender-affirming care “mutilation.”

This year has been all downhill for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. His presidential aspirations are going up in smoke thanks to his complete lack of charisma and general campaign incompetence. His losing war against Disney is costing Florida taxpayers millions of dollars. Now a federal court all but called DeSantis a liar for the way he justified his ban on medical care for trans youth.

DeSantis repeatedly claimed that the law was necessary to prevent youth from being “mutilated.” In just one example, he went after one reporter who questioned him about it when he signed the bill last May.

“And when you talk to people and I know, like people in your industry will dress it up with a euphemism, and they’ll say it’s health care to cut off the private parts of a 14 or 15 year old,” DeSantis said. “That is not health care. That is mutilation.”

Tell that to U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle.

  • @4am@lemm.ee
    2•6 months ago

    Your problem is that you start from the presumption that anyone is “cutting dicks off” at that age.

    Psychologists have ways to tell if a child is faking their body dysmorphia (ie just sees it “as the cool trend”) - and, news flash; almost literally no one wants to change their body for “trendy” reasons.

    So, if they do meet the criteria, they go on hormone blockers. This just delays puberty, and as soon as they stop taking them, puberty picks up where it left off.

    So if they later decide this was all a mistake, they have until they’re an adult to make their decision.

    Again: no one is mutilating any children. It is a strawman argument dreamed up by culture-war pedaling fascists who want to be able to point at the fake victories they won “for you” so they can get your vote and remain in power and accomplish their real goals like eventually outlawing all trans people, rounding up all immigrants, atheists, etc in their march to turn America into a theocratic white Christian ethnostate.

    I mean they’re already quoting Hitler, bro. Wake the fuck up.