Posted on 07/25/2023 1:35:59 PM PDT by Morgana
Nationwide maps reveal how access to children's gender-affirming care is eroding across parts of America - as the issue becomes one of the key political battlegrounds heading into the 2024 Presidential Election.
The maps show how minors seeking this care, which can include hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and genital reconstruction, now have to travel as long as nine hours to receive the treatments.
Up until the wave of state bans began in 2020 and 2021, there were no restrictions at the federal level for access to these treatments, which in cases are irreversible.
As of May 2023, 20 states have enacted legislation, executive actions, or other policies that restrict or ban healthcare for transgender youths, and more than 100 additional bills are under consideration.
All of the states are Republican or Republican-leaning, and all but one voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
The new study published in JAMA used public directories, news articles, and archived clinical websites to identify clinics offering gender-affirming care for patients younger than 18 years old in the contiguous 48 US states and Washington, DC.
Data show that of 271 gender clinics, 70 were considered inactive under restrictions in 20 states.
Researchers calculated drive times from states where gender-affirming therapies are now prohibited to the nearest clinic that offers those medical services. They also calculated drive times to and from the same locations prior to prohibitions being enacted.
In states where no restrictions exist, the median drive time to clinics is 0.4 hours.
In states that currently have restrictions, the drive time to the nearest clinic before those restrictions were implemented was 0.8 hours. However, once the restrictions were put in place, the median travel time skyrocketed to 5.3 hours.
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Crackdown on childcare.
Right. It’s a “crackdown” on chemical castration and genital mutilation of children. We should be ashamed of ourselves, right?
“Gender affirming treatment”
Cutting off your sons balls.
Soon billboard signs will read: “Last Chance for Child Mutilation”
It isn’t “gender affirming care”, it is MUTILATING CHILDREN for their own Perverted fantasies, and these Pervert Pedophiles should be Tried Convicted and HANGED IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE
Libtards panic
If chemical castration is cruel and unusual punishment to do to a convicted rapist, but totally awesome freedom to do to a minor ... you might be a Democrat.
Key political battleground I think not.
We’ve got too many freaks out here in flyover country as it is.
No need to make more.
Ditto that!
“Gender-affirming treatment for children”, otherwise known as child sexual mutilation. Amazing how the terminology the left uses makes the most evil things pleasant-sounding.
Over-reach, and get your hand slapped.
Teachers want to pick transgenders and have them spay/neutered as quick as possible before the children know what’s happening to them and no turning back
The above map from a study published in JAMA shows the median travel time to the nearest gender-affirming clinic before various states enacted restrictions on medical care for transgender youth.
The above map from a study published in JAMA shows the median travel time to the nearest gender-affirming clinic after various states enacted restrictions on medical care for transgender youth
NC is the wrong color. Alas.
Why, then, does the recommended treatment change when sexual orientation or gender dysphoria is involved?
Democrats and the liberal media are trying to define ‘gender affirming’ care as a normal thing, and as if it’s a right that ‘the right’ is obstructing.
The U.S. and most of the rest of western countries have accepted same-sex marriage, and now they want to normalize CRT and all matters in the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and transgenderism and defunding the police and looting at retail stores, and more.
The whole set of ideas coming from the left, need to be criminalized, including the existence of leftism.
Gender affirming care would be raising your child as he was delivered to you by God.
Affirming their mental delusion
Would make you a, wait for it a(gender denier) 😊
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
“The maps show how minors seeking this care, which can include hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and genital reconstruction, now have to travel as long as nine hours to receive the treatments. “
Horror of horrors, you might have to drive up to nine hours to get your genitals permanently and irreversibly mutilated.
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