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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I’m so embarrassed and sorry. I hereby submit my apology. It is unconscionable of me to think that for millennia the common wisdom and knowledge was that men had penises and women had vaginas. More recently, scientists discovered chromosomes. It was hideously stupid of me to follow the science and think only men have an XY and only women have an XX chromosome pair. I am ashamed of such thinking. Now I realize that I should be listening to how people feel. If someone wakes up in the morning feeling like a female, then they are female. If they feel like a man, a cat, a dog, or even a tree, then that’s what they are. Please take my money as reparations for I have failed to listen to the children and all their wisdom and knowledge. They know better than me. I am sorry.
NC is a great place. But they do have a lot of weener snippers.
Any parent who attempts that madness is not fit to be a parent at all.
Indeed.
Mutilating children is NOT “care”!
Agreed.
The demonic comes from the big cities. The further away from them the better.
Since we rag on them so often, the Repubs in these states have shut down this garbage, and that should be recognized.
“But when my son was two he’d always reach for the pink blanket! That’s how I knew eventually I’d need to cut his dick off.”
We’ve all heard the clips. This is the level of analysis some of these parents apply before deciding they need to castrate and mutilate their children
Crack down on child abuse.
If gender is not considered a way to identify sex, why is sex affirming surgery?
Looks like good progress to me.
After years of being scolded for gender stereotypes, we have now reached the point of where the very ones who used to do the scolding are now reinforcing gender stereotypes to a ridiculous degree.THus we are at the poing of insanity where likes and dislikes and toys, clothes, etc are defined as boy and girl and where if a boy likes *girl* things, everyone has to deny the facts and pretend he's a girl and vice versa.
“ 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.”
The horror. You mean I can’t get my son a dickecomy and my daughter addadickttome surgery in less than 9 hours? Whatever will I do if I can’t find “gender affirming care” right around the corner? It’s so unfair!
Amen to your comment. We’re surrounded by idiots. We truly are.
“Gender Affirming.”
So kind. I can’t find the meme but it goes something like this...
“So, genitals do not determine your gender but removing them affirms your gender?”
“Care” = “hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and genital reconstruction” = “temporary and permanent drug alteration and permanent mutilation”. And the author thinks those are good things.
Like Congress, JAMA represents the pharmaceutical industry.
Ah, the left and its euphemisms.
What would they do without them?
Can’t call things by their true name now, can we?
Or evil.
I tend to lean in that direction because I think the left knows EXACTLY what it is doing.
That’s what makes them so powerful: a consciously evil cabal is supported by an army of people who are just flat out stupid. The mom I paraphrased who started her son on his nightmare journey really means him no harm and wants the best for him. But she’s also impenetrably stupid and unable because she has no critical thinking skills, to get past the relentless propaganda that the elites and the media pump into her empty head.
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