Posted on 04/25/2023 1:02:16 PM PDT by Morgana
Transgender Missourians are posting heart-wrenching videos on social media about being forced to 'de-transition' once their sex-reassignment drugs are banned, under new rules set to come into force this week.
Others are trading tips online about stockpiling the cross-sex hormones they need, or finding a telehealth doctor to help them once Attorney General Andrew Bailey's tight new emergency restrictions come into force on Thursday.
Bailey's first-of-its-kind rule, introduced over fears of young people getting irreversible treatments in Missouri, impose numerous restrictions on both adults and children before they can receive puberty-blocking drugs, hormones, or surgeries.
In one widely-shared TikTok video, Milo Paasch, a high school senior from Springfield, Missouri, said the new rules would likely cut off his access to testosterone, which deepens his voice and gives him other male characteristics.
'I'm scared. I don't know what I'm going to do. Testosterone has been life-saving for me,' Paasch, who was born female, says in the clip.
'Taking me off testosterone now is taking away my happiness and my healthcare.'
Paasch says his cross-sex hormones could be cut off because he was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder, and Bailey's tough new rules restrict transgender medicine for adults with mental health issues.
Leaving Missouri is not an option either, added Paasch, whose identity cannot be verified. He has a scholarship to study at Kansas City Art Institute and says: 'I don't want to have to give up my dream just to get out of this hellhole.'
'It's not fair, but since when was America fair?'
Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri on Monday challenged the rule in court before it takes effect on April 27 – but that's done little to ease the worries of many trans Missourians.
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Fixed it for them.
Does taking estrogen really cause a man’s voice to, um, er, raise octave? Sound more feminine? I know one who’s voice is just as low as pre-estrogen.
Lupron is a PubertyBlockers, I think. Those drugs don’t have fed approval for kids. In order to take them, parents must sign permission to take “experimental meds.”
I reread it. The article is about a girl. I didn’t know taking testosterone lowers a girl’s voice.
Missouri didn’t ban kid treatment outright. One can’t take hormones if one has a psychological disorder (beside gender identity disorder) or if one is autistic. I’ve read 65% of Tavistock treated kids were autistic.
First of all, you are using drugs off label.. and the doctors prescribing them to you should be jailed.
Second, your dysphoria is a symptom of deeper psychological issues, all the drugs in the world to try to make you look like the gender you aren’t is NOT going to solve your problems. You are literally a case of psychological and medical malpractice.
Why doesn’t Pausch drive to Kansas? Over the bridge, I assume.
“You are literally a case of psychological and medical malpractice.”
Imagine a world where you try to save people from being subject to human medical experimentation and they turn around and want to kill you to return the favor. Oh wait, we live in that world.
Lupron is USED as a puberty blocker on healthy prepubescent male children. It blocks the production of testosterone to a level of near zero and shrinks the testicles in the process. For cancer patients, this might be a lifesaver since prostate cancer thrives on testosterone, and removing it from the body can stall or even reverse metastasis.
But the effects on the body are still detrimental. Men on this regimen report “hot flashes” and mood swings similar to women in menopause. For advanced stages of cancer, this regimen is ongoing forever, until death.
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