• Corvidae@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’m not in Texas, but was leaving Costco a few days ago, and on the busy street corner adjoining their parking lot there was a guy with a sign that said something like “God hates transgender” and “transgender is evil” and on his sign was a cross. I’ve been thinking about it for a few days and realized there was no “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

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    12 hours ago

    Trying to bankrupt a children’s hospital because you’ve decided to launch a transgender witchhunt is comic book levels of evil.

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    12 hours ago

    This is absolutely going to be a center for mandatory disfigurement of trans people of all ages.

    Fucking horrific.

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    11 hours ago

    1% of the US identified as trans and 1% of people who transition want to go back.

    This is going to be a “clinic” for a 1-3 kids who decided to stop puberty blockers. And the free clinic will basically be “we’ll wave the $30 copay on a call with a doctor or therapist.”

    These politicians love to fixate on ragebate issues that don’t actually change the lives of their constituents for the better.

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      Like I said in another thread, this is going to be a black hole where you toss unwanted trans kids, to either rot and die, or get trafficked, or both.

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        They are not required to create some sort of inpatient trans kid gulag.

        The “clinic” requirement state that doctor’s need to help kids who are getting off of hormone blockers - which any good hospital would do anyway for anyone doing a big medication switch. That’s standard care.

        They also apparently are required to pay to reverse surgical procedures if someone asks. Which would be never or rarely, because doctors / parents almost always delay puberty until a someone if old enough to decide about surgery.

        The clinic is dumb bullshit that won’t be a real thing. The real impact is the 10 million fine, firing five physicians who previously provided care, and ceasing performing puberty blockers. That’s the shit that’s really fucked up.

    • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      Also if you look at the reasons for why that 1% detransitions, it is primarily because of discrimination. The number of people who genuinely decide that being trans isn’t for them is extremely tiny.