Posted on 06/01/2025 12:31:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
MSNBC’s Katelyn Burns took to dramatic fearmongering on Wednesday that the ‘big, beautiful bill’ would kill trans-identifying individuals.
In an article griping about President Trump’s plan to keep Medicaid from paying for transgender hormone injections, MSNBC repeated the debunked falsehood that lack of access to so-called “gender-affirming care” will cause people to die.
The “one big, beautiful bill,” which passed the House and is making its way through the Senate, would prevent taxpayer dollars from funding opposite-sex hormones for adults and minors. But MSNBC’s Katelyn Burns, a freelance columnist who proclaims the title “the first openly transgender Capitol Hill reporter in U.S. history,” took to dramatic fearmongering on Wednesday that this would kill trans-identifying individuals.
“For those who have already had bottom surgery and depend on hormone replacement therapy to produce the sex hormones they need to survive, the situation would literally be life or death, because no one can live without a dominant sex hormone,” Burns says.
The 2005 study Burns cites to back up his claim that the situation is “life or death” assesses the association of sex hormone levels with poor mobility in people aged 65-88. While the study’s introduction notes how “mobility limitations and fractures can lead to disability, institutionalization and death,” it has nothing to do with cross-sex hormone usage at all.
Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic‘s pages on “gender-affirming hormone therapy” give no indication that an individual will die if they stop taking opposite-sex hormones. Although there may be symptoms of withdrawal, people are not going to die because they stop taking hormones that alter their biological makeup.
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I must admit I don’t know some of the details they’re talking about.
I think I know what bottom surgery is.
Are they saying you need a lifetime of the opposite sex hormone on shots for your health?
But then the question becomes, should tax payer funded healthcare programs pay for this sort of thing? Or why can’t we say you need to pay for this on your own if you’re going to go and have these surgeries?
The Left always lies.
But, but if they repeat the lie often enough it becomes a believed fact.
Ironically, if it really was “ who you truly are” you wouldn’t need the stuff anyway.
Meanwhile I’m stuck with Medicaid and have had no real decent healthcare for two years.
Maybe I should start “ identifying “ as a wildly healthy person and they’ll pump out the cash to maintain my delusions, too.
I thought since Trump is president, we’re all going to die anyway?
Supposedly, every trans patient represents a million bucks in medical expenses over their often shortened lifetimes. The medical industry is making billions turning physically healthy people into lifetime patients.
Well, the Trans have already demonstrated they suffer from a serious mental disorder.
Getting off “the hormone pills” will not kill them.
But they may commit Suicide.
Many of them eventually do that.
A guy in makeup, women’s clothes and a comb-over.
The most malicious lie is that a sexually confused person is likely to commit suicide if they don’t get drugs and surgery. Parents were bullied into allowing gender mutilations by doctors who make a bundle chopping up kids. Despicable.
kill the fake you, and reveal the true you maybe
Why can’t they buy their own hormones?
Looks like even pretending to be a woman can’t shield you from male pattern baldness
Namy don’t know it the S in MSNBC stands for stupidity and damned proud of it.
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