Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 09/02/2025 5:11:47 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Months before his first class at Carlow University, Lee, a 17-year-old in Pennsylvania, found himself without a provider.
On a summer day, Lee sat waiting in a doctor’s office, playing GamePigeon on his phone, telling family stories with his mom and deciding where to get dinner.
It seemed like an ordinary afternoon, yet the reason for Lee’s appointment was far from ordinary.
Lee, 17, was there because the UPMC health system, headquartered in Pittsburgh, had cut off the gender-affirming care he’d been receiving for two years — a change driven by a federal executive order. A pharmacy mix-up meant his final puberty blocker shot never came, and the “weaning off” period his doctor had promised vanished. Within a month, he was experiencing hot flashes he hadn’t felt since starting treatment.Lee was devastated when he learned he could no longer receive treatment. “You feel like you’re starting from rock bottom,” said Lee, who plans to start classes at Carlow University this month.
The sudden disruption of care brought national policy directly into Lee’s home. On June 30, UPMC cut gender-affirming care for patients under 19 citing compliance with a January executive order from President Donald Trump. However, the care remains legal in Pennsylvania, and critics say the decision was less about the law than about protecting federal funding. A UPMC spokesperson said while they “empathize deeply” with impacted patients, the Trump administration has made it “abundantly clear” they can “no longer provide certain types of gender-affirming care without risk of criminal prosecution.”UPMC’s move mirrors a broader trend. Major health systems — from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to Penn State Health — have also ended gender-affirming care for minors.
(Excerpt) Read more at 19thnews.org ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
These liberals and "doctors" think they are god.
This kid would be better off being drafted and sent to some hell hole to fight.
Kudos to Caleb Kauffman for his consistency in referring to Lee as ‘he’ throughout the article.
"He graduated early to get gender-affirming surgery before college. Then his hospital cut him off.
“gender-affirming surgery ”
Only in Opposite World.
It is denial, not affirmation.
Trying (but not very hard) to work up sympathy, but my sympathy meter is pegged at zero. This wack job and others like him/her/it is sucking away medical resources from people who are actually sick. To hell with him and the writer of this price of trash can go pound sand too.
If a doctor prescribed diet pills to an anorexic, or performed liposuction on an anorexic, he’d be sitting in prison and the hospital sued out of existence. Yet, if he prescribes opposite sex hormones and mutilates the genitals of a patient with Gender Dysphoria, even to the point of sterilization, he’s rewarded.
Pathetic Evil “mother”.
Evil. She should be in jail.
Who cut him off?
And I am supposed to feel empathy for this person, however I do not.
There is zero science supporting “gender affirming care”. None.
There is no less suicide rate, no more positive outcomes, none. It’s quackery and those who engage in it are committing malpractice.
I’m sorry your mother and father fell for this and helped you further wreck your life young lady… I hope you actually get the help and care you truly need… I know you don’t believe it but the “care” you have been receiving has been anything but.
This kid would be better off being drafted and sent to some hell hole to fight.
***********
True. It’s difficult to learn and relearn that “being comfortable” and feeling “safe” is not what this world is about.
This world is the devil’s space.
Hope he will come to his senses before he finds a “health care provider” that is actually willing to multilate him.
Lee worked to graduate a year early from high school, thinking it might allow him to more quickly pursue top surgery — a procedure that alters the chest to align with a patient’s gender identity.
Why don’t they offer ‘gender affirming care’ surgeries or procedures to females who feel they are actually females with bigger breasts or are actually blonde?
OR put the ‘trans’ in institutions where these ‘confused’ kids can get the help they need????
Gender unaffirming surgery. To call it affirming is Orwellian.
My thought too!
I’ll donate a pair of scissors.
“hot flashes” confirms that IT is a chick that thinks she can go into the world of men.
But his childhood pediatrician was dismissive, telling a long story about a woman who once identified as a lesbian and later married a man — suggesting his gender dysphoria was just a phase. “Just hang in there and don’t do anything,” Nicole said, paraphrasing the doctor’s advice.
... and apparently also without a d*ck.
Regards,
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.