Transgender adults in Florida are blindsided that a new law also limits their access to health care
Transgender adults in Florida are blindsided that a new law also limits their access to health care
A new Florida law banning gender-affirming care for minors is getting a lot of attention nationally as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for president, but it's also impacting transgender adults.
The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.
Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.
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Form the powerhouse that brought you such groovy hits like, “Don’t Tread on Me” and “Small Goverment Now!” comes a new hip tune by the GOPissfarts:
“We Are Slackjawed Hypocrites.”
Enjoy their olympic-level feat of mental gymnastics as they spew the barely coherent rhetoric-laced psychobabble of meaningless nonsense while simultaneously trying to justify how “iTs diFfErEnT wHeN iTs aBoUt tEh gAyS*™”
it's only hypocrisy if you take the most generous possible interpretation of the things the right-wingers say, not what they so obviously mean
it's always been very clear all along that "don't tread on me" doesn't mean the same thing as "don't tread on anybody". they want some people to be firmly tread upon, and others not to be.
It's not about gays though, it's about children thinking they are trans.
Yes, there needs to be limits on the health care that is provided to children and parental concent.
There's nothing hypocritical about that.
What healthcare is given to children that you disagree with? Because most prominent medical organizations disagree with you about what we currently offer, which is gender-affirming care and puberty blockers. There's nothing surgical and nothing permanent.
I'm not really sure what you find needing limits to children there? Please explain.
This is a lie.
There are permanent effects to puberty blockers and the FDA has issued serious warnings.
Why do you care more about your ideology than protecting kids?
Why can't you just be honest?
Side effects are known to both children and parents when given because doctors are typically good at that. Of course, you don't seem educated, so here is a list of those side effects, and a show that they are rather safe: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075
Which ones do you believe are so serious that you want children to kill themselves instead?
It really shows how ignorant, bigoted, and stupid you are.
There are permanent effects to puberty blockers and the FDA has issued serious warnings.
Link to them.
Most of those children KNOW they are trans. Do you have a problem with them too? Or is it just the one that think they are. Because for the ones that think they are, there’s therapy for them to get an understanding of what going on- but you conservatives are shutting that down.
So how about you tell me what’s to be done when that happens? What will we do about the ones that still think they’re trans when there’s nothing to help them under it?
Lastly…
What the fuck is wrong with someone being trans?
I disagree that children know they are trans.
You're trying to equate bigotry "there must be something wrong with trans" with the idea that "children do not have enough life experience to understand complex things like sex and gender"
I don't think children are smart enough not to shove a pencil up their nose, and you think they understand things like sex, gender expression, parenthood, and sexuality?
And you think children can decide they are trans?
No.
This kind of rhetoric has to stop.
Children cannot decide if they have gender dysphoria.
Trans adults recall being trans kids. But this is the root of most transphobia. You simply do not believe transgender people when they speak.
Keep your nose out of other people's healthcare.
You're right.
If you don't think children understand things like sex or gender, then we should teach them that queer people exist, and we should probably allow them to express their gender identities however they want, because if they don't fully understand it, giving them a safe space to try out different identities when younger so that they are in a position to make difficult decisions like identity at crucial points in their life, like the need to take puberty blockers.
That is a really progressive stance, thank you for being an ally.
I think children are smarter than people like you give them credit for, and therapy can help them figure out how they feel and allow them to make sense of it all.
Children need advocacy, not people that think they’re not smart enough to tell when they don’t feel right.
Please don’t have children, and stay away from those of others. People like you should not be weighing in on the mental health of children.
The existence of minorities conservatives want to oppress is not up for debate.
It's about conservatives' stated goal of eradicating trans people. A goal you're furthering in this thread.
A parental concent, like an Aerosmith show?