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.
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Correct.
Likewise.
You have to wonder if the author was an idiot or that there’s a deeper Freudian issue.
LOL
I believe “Lee” is actually a girl pretending to be a boy.
Thus isn't some 8 y.o. who thinks he's a ninja " ninja affirming care" ? Or a 3 y.o. Disney snow white " snow white affirming care".
This world is sick. This kid needs therapy, not drugs.
The last thing the person needs is to be taking the drugs that the Frankenstein Nazi Doctors Quacks are poisoning them with .
The Quacks act as the high priests and they practice their butchery on children .
How is this allowed ? Who profits, who takes in the most cash doing this, Pharma ? The so called surgeons, butchers doing evil ?
“””Who cut him off?”””
ORANGE MAN BAD. Now this crossdresser will have to pay for his own body mutilation. We are supposed to feel sad for him/her/it.
Right.. male vs. female “gender” is a social construct, while male vs. female “sex” is a physical reality.
I do understand the distinction, but I think it’s a distraction - or even a fatal deception. By conceding that “gender” is merely a social construct, we give the Left free-reign to alter the meaning of “gender” with impunity. After all, it’s merely a social construct - what’s the harm?
Actually, one could argue that perverting the language is more of a threat to Western civilization than any surgical experiment - horrific as they are.
While, I certainly don’t mean to make light of the horrors of attempting to surgically alter physical sex, I think we tend to underestimate the horrific consequences of allowing the Left to alter the meanings of words, such as the gender pronouns. Or words like “undocumented worker” or “reproductive freedom”, or”assault rifle”, or “white privilege”.
I would argue that letting the Left fudge the meanings of words has been the gateway to all brainwashing - the attack on the language is the true threat - as it opens the door to all Hell breaking loose.
Confused
So is Lee a biological female?
Yes, the headline can mean two different things!
He/She will soon run amok, and shoot up a church or school.
Words have gender, humans don’t.
Most likely.
Prety sure he is a girl, Transboy means Fake Boy.
Nor will I.
The headline’s choice of words have to be intentional!
Actually, the kid appears to be a girl who is pretending to be a boy.
In a real piece of journalism, this piece would start with:
"Lee" is the name assumed by a 13 year old female whose parent Nicole had named her "Leigh" at birth. Her mother Nicole was only 14 years old when Leigh was born out of wedlock, and when, years later, the then 13 year old Leigh came home from school and informed her mother she was "transgender" and identified as a boy (after a discussion in class clarified it for the 13 year old girl) her single, unmarried mother overwhelmingly supported her transition."
We luv everyone. Well, unless you have an opposing view point.
The dentist is stabbed to death by his son, who now identifies as a woman . The son later commits suicide while in jail.
Here is how one local tv station reported it.
Disgusting ,they refer to the guy as her throughout.
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