Posted on 09/12/2023 6:21:30 AM PDT by NetAddicted
The fight to protect children scored a big victory when officials at Washington University in St. Louis announced they were halting ALL gender-affirming medications for minors. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was happy to share the news.
BREAKING: Washington University has ceased all prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children after a law that my office successfully defended in court went into effect two weeks ago. ->https://t.co/rVKqdZBR8w
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) September 11, 2023
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Citing 'unacceptable' legal liability, Washington University officials announced Monday the school’s physicians will stop providing gender-affirming medications to minors who are technically eligible for those treatments under a new Missouri law.
Last month, Missouri passed legislation outlawing all gender surgery for minors as well as banning medical professionals from prescribing puberty blockers or hormones to minors. The law contained a loophole, however, that allowed medications to continue for minors who had already started the process. Today, Washington University announced that it was ceasing all treatments, even for exempted minors, though they would be referred to other hospitals. University officials claimed, even with the exemption, the law created 'unsustainable liability for health care professionals.'
To which we say: Good. It should.
I'm proud to have shined light on the lack of science supporting these procedures.
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) September 11, 2023
Faster, please Shut every child mutilation shop down everywhere! https://t.co/2PdKfrb4Ek
— Cardinal Curmudgeon (@Gimblin) September 12, 2023
Translation: health care centers are starting to realize that they will get sued into oblivion. Obv it’s better if they made the decision to cease ops based on the principle of first do no harm, but if it’s purely financially motivated I’ll take the win just the same! https://t.co/jXc4OzDkfN
— Suzy Shofar (@suzylebo) September 12, 2023
There were many users on Twitter celebrating the win, but perhaps none more than Jamie Reed.
Breaking: “ Washington University physicians will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross sex hormones to minors for the purpose of gender transitions”
— Jamie Reed Whistleblower (@JamieWhistle) September 11, 2023
You may recall Reed as the whistleblower who disclosed back in February the extremely unethical practices engaged in by the transgender center at Washington University, including ignoring comorbidities such as depression and eating disorders in teenage girls, referring those girls for transgender care after meeting with a counselor only once or twice, and downplaying the negative side effects of puberty blockers to those girls as well.
Many thanked Reed for her work and applauded her for her courage and this vindication of her stance.
When people stand up…Monsters stop their monstering… https://t.co/ghEpowmMrv
— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) September 12, 2023
Of course, many people also hate Reed for telling the truth. You can be the judge of whether their reactions reflect on her or on them.
"Southampton Healthcare, located in St. Louis, joined a lawsuit against the new state law in hopes it could continue to provide gender-affirming care to new and existing patients. Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri will continue the prescriptions of… pic.twitter.com/GwZXq0I1bB
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) September 12, 2023
I think we know which side we want to be on here.
As many noted, this is only one victory in the fight to protect children from mutilation and sterilization, but that's how victories happen: one at a time. And there are starting to be a lot more of them.
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It’s hard to believe we are even talking about this.
But here we are.
gender bending
gender distorting
I wouldn’t call this winning. I say we are slowing down the bleeding.
The very term “gender affirming” is psycho-babble. It is sex-denying and mental illness affirming.
Exactly.
a good start
now someone transitioned as a child needs to sue the pants off one of these butcheries
“Citing ‘unacceptable’ legal liability”
Someday in the future you will see a post on FR that a Democrat legislature and governor have enacted a law exempting the “gender affirming care” providers from all liability.
This butchery exists because there is a lot of government funding for it. You stop the government funding and the whole industry stops. Also I believe that when the surgery is done to kids, insurance pays, but when its done to adults its more often elective. It should always be elective. And never done to kids.
That Washington University-St. Louis had ever been prescribing sex perversion drugs for minors is a shameful abomination.
Will the WashU medical school now get rid of its Josef Mengele Endowed Chair of Pediatric Pharmacology?
It’s not gender, it’s sex, and it doesn’t need to be affirmed. It depends on our chromosomes, not on our delusions.
Stuart Smalley said a daily affirmation.
“And gosh darn it, people like me”!
That’s right!
A good start, but the mentality is still perverse. The root needs to be removed.
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