Quietly?
In what way have they been subtle about loudly and proudly proclaiming what everyone else can or cannot do with their body?
Yes, because it is “quiet” when you feature your hatred of trans people in multiple speeches at your national convention.
They will take away our care, they claim it’s about kids, but its not. They just don’t think we should be allowed to exist at all.
It’s quiet because the media don’t report on it.
Because conservatives own all the major networks now
They feel the same way about Teh Ghey, but they realized they more or lost that culture war once gay marriage was the law of the land - at least for now - so they pivoted to focusing on trans like a laser beam. I don’t think it is an accident that they started obsessing over where people poop almost right after gay marriage was a done deal.
Quietly? Is this reporter deaf?
Hey, I’m deaf and I can feel the noise they’re making about it in my feet
The rhythmless and off-tempo stomping from out-of-shape Repub Nazis marching through the streets.
Digging in on the wrong side of history is a core tenet of conservatism.
Who coulda fuckin predicted
“Quietly”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives last January, GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill have quietly added a wave of amendments to “must-pass” government funding bills that would ban federal money from being used for gender transition procedures such as hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery.
“I remember a time when my own medical transition was the only thing going right in my life, and to have it taken away from me would have been existential at least,” says Gillian Branstetter, a communications strategist for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s LGBTQ and HIV Project.
Meanwhile, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, who recently left the Democratic Party to become an independent, bizarrely claimed to be unaware that he had voted for a similar pair of amendments – only for his office to reverse course within 24 hours and say he did support them.
Cis women take HRT to mitigate side effects of menopause, or even acne; children receive puberty blockers to prevent premature sexual development; and intersex people undergo genital reconstructive surgery, frequently without their consent in early childhood.
Last year seven out of 12 appropriations bills were amended in the House to restrict trans healthcare, according to a report by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – part of a raft of anti-LGBT+ additions ranging from bans on flying Pride flags above federal properties and blocking the enforcement of non-discrimination laws.
In June, House Republicans amended this year’s iteration of the annual National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) to revoke coverage for trans healthcare under the Pentagon’s sprawling Tricare health insurance program, which serves around 9.6m current and former service members and dependents.
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Extremely rare side effects aside, what about all the kids whose lives you destroy by _not _ intervening? Do you know how many confused cis kids go on blockers, decide they want to stop and go on and live a cis life? It literally almost never happens.
Of the children accessing trans healthcare available to minors, the overwhelming majority are trans kids who do not detransition or regret anything they do to transition. The kid you are “protecting” is that “confused cis kid” who is vastly outnumbered by genuinely trans children who will become transgender adults. By withholding blockers (at the minimum), you are sacrificing the well being of the overwhelming users of blockers, genuinely trans children, for the sake of the wellbeing of an almost non existent subgroup of confused cis kids.
How many trans kids lives are worth sacrificing so that one cis kid might not accidentally do something totally reversible that might increase their risk of cancer the same amount as eating bacon?
When you put it all together like that and the outcome is still a desire to prevent access, one has to ask: maybe the point is to make the trans kids suffer? Maybe the point is to make it harder for them to blend in with cis people? Maybe the point is to not treat their illness in hopes they give up and conform or kill themselves?
Please, just listen to trans people’s experiences so you can understand what you’re actually talking about. You can’t just try to take away people’s medical treatment because you don’t understand why they need it.
As a probably-trans-but-still-questioning person, I can promise you that no one was “teaching” me to be uncomfortable with my gender when I was a kid.
(Also, it’s important to point out that a lot of what you’re complaining about is not real treatments that are done. No one does gender affirming surgery on kids. And puberty blockers have been safely used on cis kids for decades so unless you want to take them away from them too, it’s not about how you think they’re dangerous, it’s about hurting trans people)
Hormone therapy does increase risk of cancer, but puberty blockers do not as far as I’m aware. Kids take puberty blockers for many reasons, only one of which is to hold off on a gender decision. They are also used to pause early puberty or to prevent puberty when puberty would come with other adverse medical problems.
And the increase risk of suicide is worse if no choice is given to transgender youth. Most of the suicidal ideation is attributed to the intolerance and hate transgender people experience, which leads to mental health issues, substance abuse, self hate, etc. The issue therefore is not being transgender, but with societies lack of acceptance, which you are presently participating in.
Virtually no kids are undergoing surgical transition. Trans care for minors usually involves medication that puts their puberty on pause until they are old enough to decide whether they wish to pursue transition. It is reversible.
You know you can just say you hate trans people instead of dancing around it with bullshit. I didn’t get puberty blockers, which caused permanent damage to my body and mental health. I had to get expensive surgery I was fortunate enough to be able to get in order to fix some of that. You’re causing permanent damage to trans people by denying them a reversible medication out of fear that they may have negative side effects while ignoring the negative primary effects going through the wrong puberty causes.
Stop being so fucking selfishly cruel.
teaching them to hate way they were born is just messed up
You’re so right but not the way you think.
“Won’t someone please think of the children” hysteria aside, this article is about adults.
