Posted on 06/29/2026 7:48:42 AM PDT by fwdude
One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy — and would be using he/him pronouns.
“OK, cool,” his mother, J, remembered saying. (J asked to be identified by only her first initial, and Bug by his nickname, because the family fears harassment.)
“‘What do you need to be supported?’” she recalled asking next. “He asked to get healthcare.”
This was the kind of moment J had been anticipating since the family had moved earlier that year from Texas to Massachusetts, for its more liberal and inclusive politics. She felt confident they could find the right medical experts. But she hadn’t realized that access to gender-affirming treatment could disappear even when their state’s laws and leaders supported it.
Individual hospitals all over the U.S., in red and blue states, have responded to President Donald Trump’s attacks on transgender healthcare by deciding to withdraw care on their own. At least 20 hospitals did so in the first months of the Trump administration as it threatened to pull back federal funding or initiate fraud or wrongful-claim investigations, and such services have continued to drop off since.
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Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Their desire for attention is more important than the lives of their children.
I call it “same-sex mirage,” because it is a fake of the real thing.
And then there is calling Obama’s hideous building in Chicago his presidential “Library“. It is not a traditional presidential library as his original documents are all somewhere else unavailable to the public. Only Digital copies, which we know can be manipulated, will be available in his presidential CENTER.
“Bug, who was assigned female at birth…”
It wasn’t “assigned”. It was identified.
Stop ceding the language to these freaks.
L
Lets call it what it is; genital mutilation.
Gender Affirming Care! That sounds so much nicer than Delusion Pandering Mutilation, does it not?
And then there is calling Obama’s hideous building in Chicago his presidential “Library“. It is not a traditional presidential library as his original documents are all somewhere else unavailable to the public. Only Digital copies, which we know can be manipulated, will be available in his presidential CENTER.
One of the most ridiculous is “gender affirming care”. Mutilating the genitals by surgery or the entire body by pharmaceuticals is the ultimate in “gender denying care”.
This little girl would be better off in bad foster care than she is with her parents.
She got this idea from somewhere, probably the public indoctrination center who’s been baby sitting her for 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, 10 months a year.
One thing hospitals know more than politicians....
Lawsuits can mean the end of your career.
“okay, cool” ? said his mother?
what the hell is wrong with people
winning the genetic lottery!
My guess is she got it from her mother who was willing to move half way across the country to get her daughter mutilated.
Who was OBSERVED to be female at birth.
On what basis was the so called "assignment" made? The basis was an observation.
This is pathetic. Child abuse through parental indoctrination.
......transgender healthcare .........
NO! It’s mutilation!!
Any news article that doesn’t put “gender affirming care” in quotes is not to be trusted.
Parents yes, but have you noticed, it’s always the mother? I have yet to read of a case where the father was the one driving this travesty of parenthood.
It is gender denying non Care.
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