2y ago

‘Heartbreaking’: Anti-Trans Healthcare Law Takes Effect in Texas

www.texasobserver.org

Despite ACLU win in lower court, an appeal by the state means transgender kids and their families will feel the devastating effects of the ban.

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Brought to you by the "don't tread on me" folks who eagerly tread over anyone they don't like.
In this case, children with loving families. No one is forcing. ~~left hands~~ transness on kids you absolute ghouls. Let go of those perals, stop shouting "save the children" and stop telling kids they are wrong for writing (or living) that way.
- I should share this with my mother who "feels like there are a lot more autistic people these days."
  
  You should! I mean, yeah, of course it has! As things become less stigmatized and especially in the case of autism, more ways are used to detect/diagnose then... Why wouldn't it?
- People know themselves better than you know them.
  
  Ok, I’ll bite.
  What, exactly, is “trans culture”?
Conservatism is bigotry, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, antisemitism and generalized hate. Conservatives absolutely delight in the misery of the vulnerable.
Teach your children why good people don't do business or keep relationships with conservatives. Marginalize hate by marginalizing the hate group.
- That's the point. Transgender care for underage people consists of meds to hold off body changes (puberty) until they are old enough.
  
  Are there any permanent effects on the body from this that will follow them into adulthood even if they stop taking them?
- Guess kids don't get any medical care anymore. They can't consent.
- Denying children healthcare is child abuse. That is what you are supporting.
- Oh hey, it's you, spouting more transphobic bullshit again. Remember the other day when you were upset, thinking everybody was mad at you for no reason?
  This is the reason.
  
  Oh i knew the reason. Yall are leftists and think consent doesn't matter when its something you like.
  Also, yall ignore science when uts convient. Theres already a guy claiming puberty blockers doesn't block puberty.
  Newsflash: they block puberty. Things like sterilization and lack of bone density.
  Heres a peer reveiwed study on puberty blockers and bone density. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150228/
- But Hall emphasized that these forms of care are—contrary to misinformation spread by the state’s lawyers—not only scientifically proven to be safe and effective, they are also essentially identical to forms of medical care offered to cisgender (non-trans) young people. For example, puberty blockers, which temporarily halt the advance of adolescence, are commonly prescribed to young cisgender girls undergoing “precocious” puberty. These same drugs also allow trans kids to make more deliberate choices about their bodies as they age into adulthood.
  The reason that this law exists is to hurt children, not protect them.

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