A Florida mother tearfully testified that her family could be torn apart if the state’s ban on trans health care for children is allowed to take effect
The mother of a transgender girl sobbed in federal court Wednesday as she contemplated having to move away from her Navy officer husband to get health care for her 12-year-old if Florida’s ban on gender dysphoria treatments for minors is allowed to take affect.
The woman, who testified as Jane Doe to protect the identity of her child, said her daughter went from being anxious and upset to a thriving, happy straight-A student after being allowed to live as a girl about eight years ago, a decision she made with her husband after multiple visits to their family’s doctor.
But as the girl approaches puberty, she fears she will start turning into a boy. Without treatment, she and her family will be devasted, the mother said.
“I will go to the end of the Earth to get my daughter the help she needs,” the woman testified through sobs as she pulled facial tissues from a box. “I think about, will our family get torn apart? Will we have to live somewhere else away from my husband?"
I hope the Navy will transfer the father to a better state.
I wonder if it’s easier or difficult to just transfer to the pacific fleet. I think they each habe their own command structure but could be wrong. If he can transfer to pacific that should resolve at least this one issue. As for Florida, cruelty is the point and its own reward for republicans
I have run into navy people on army, air force, and Intel groups. So they could assign him to a land post as well.
They always say “the cruelty is the point”.
But why be so needlessly cruel?
Is there even any measurable benefit to literally anyone to hurting innocent children?Why must medical decisions be politicized?
While I do have hope for the future, these politics cannot be part of that, if we want that future to be worth looking forward to.
Because if you ask a lot of those people the child isnt trans and its the parents pushing their agenda on the child.
In their heads, they are protecting the children.
Yeah. They don’t believe that trans people are legitimately experiencing what we say we are. And even if we are they don’t believe it’s innate. And even if it is they believe teenagers are gullible idiots who will get it wrong more often than not
They don’t believe that trans people are legitimately experiencing what we say we are.
Yes. And a ton of bullshit would go away if everyone would cut the crap, and listen to your experience and take your word for it.
I am so sorry you have to deal with that.
This is the sort of justification I see for anti abortion bullshit all the time. “Well, they live in bizarro world so they get a pass for being bastards, in their alternate reality they are actually big heroes as long as you ignore the harm they are doing and the fact that they are dead fucking wrong.”
The goal is to make public existence so miserable that coming out of the closet is no longer viable. They view queerness as a cancer that is to be eradicated, so anything they do to remove us is justified for their “greater good of society”.
It’s real basic Nazi stuff.
But why be so needlessly cruel?
They are catering to the core beliefs of their voters.
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We don’t blame the refugee for needing to flee, and we don’t blame those who can’t afford to leave.
I’m trying to ask this in as good faith as possible, but is it really possible to diagnose a three year old with gender dysphoria? That seems a little early to decide on locking a child into one of two gender norms.
Maybe not, but the"treatment" at that at age is simply treating them as the gender of their choice. If 8 years later, when they’re about to start puberty, they still maintain their gender identification then yeah, that’s probably a pretty good sign it’s for real.
that seems a little early to decide on locking a child into one of two gender norms.
almost everyone gets locked into one or the other before they’re even born. this is yet another thing that goes completely unquestioned if its done in a cis way but gets the highest possible level of scrutiny if its done in a trans way. besides, to focus on the age the child was when they started being allowed to live as they want to is to ignore the fact that the child is 12 and happy living as they want to now. this isn’t about a three year old, that three year old doesn’t exist anymore. this is about politicians with an agenda overriding the will of a child, that child’s parents and the entire medical community to fulfill that agenda.
