Posted on 07/15/2022 1:41:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A plan by Florida health officials that likely would restrict Medicaid insurance coverage for gender dysphoria treatments for transgender people lacks sound medical justification and may be politically motivated, according to a group of academics from Yale University and other schools.
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration said puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex reassignment surgery have not been proven safe or effective in treating gender dysphoria.
But a group of seven scientists and a law professor from Yale and other schools said in a report last week that the Florida’s agency’s conclusions are “incorrect and scientifically unfounded.” The Florida conclusions are so flawed “that it seems clear that the report is not a serious scientific analysis but, rather, a document crafted to serve a political agenda,” according to the academics.
A spokesman for the Florida health agency dismissed the academics’ report as “another example of the left-wing academia propaganda machine.”
Transgender medical treatment for children and teens is increasingly under attack in many states where it has been labeled a form of child abuse or subject to various bans. Critics point to the irreversible nature of many elements of gender transition treatment.
Many doctors and mental health specialists argue that medical treatment for transgender children is safe and beneficial and can improve their well-being, although rigorous long-term research on benefits and risks is lacking. Federal guidelines say gender-affirming care is crucial to the health and well-being of transgender and nonbinary children.
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They indeed should not be limiting it.
These people need all the psychiatry they can get.
...sound medical justification...
This is an example of activism, not journalism, by the AP. You can gather a half dozen “academics” in any field to argue any position you would care to make. This selection by the AP was not random, but predetermined to present the position that the AP wants to make.
Lol. There is no sound diagnosis of gender dysphoria in the first place. It’s made up. Like all the disorders in the DSM4. Pure invented moonbattery. The purveyors of these phony conditions are charlatans and medical malpractitioners. These Mengele wannabes should be locked up.
So the experts complain that NOT giving children gender transition drugs is bad because there are no studies to prove that it's not bad but there are no studies to prove that it's not harmful and is beneficial.
"Science! It's what we say it is. We don't need no steenking studies! You do."
“…dysphoria treatments for transgender people lacks sound medical justification and may be politically motivated.”
Wow! They got that exactly backwards!
So true. During last week's back and forth with Senator Hawley, a Cal Berkley professor argued that he was transphobic and attitudes like his were the reason that 25% of those that have undergone transgender treatment have committed suicide. Much more likely transgenders realize they have made a terrible mistake and can't get over the guilt of how they have destroyed their God-given body.
In the field of so-called “gender dysphoria” it seems there is a lot of made up crap here & I would think that any reputable physicians & insurance carriers would just steer clear of this. Just an opinion.
In the field of so-called “gender dysphoria” it seems there is a lot of made up crap here & I would think that any reputable physicians & insurance carriers would just steer clear of this. Just an opinion.
Alll these bastards need to be rounded up and put in an internment work camp. At least that way they would have a positive contribution to society.
“Many doctors and mental health specialists argue that medical treatment for transgender children is safe and beneficial and can improve their well-being...”
Imagine being convinced that you are ‘trapped’ in the body of the opposite sex. You fill your body with hormones it wasn’t designed for, remove and add body parts only to realize you really aren’t what you are pretending to be. Encouraging someone’s delusions is wrong. Imagine if we treated anorexics the way we treat ‘transgenders’.
You are correct. Anyone with any education, especially in science, should know the difference between opinion and established fact.
What these “scientists” are arguing is a hypothesis.
A hypothesis is an educated guess, so I’m reluctant to even call it that.
In reality the suicide rate amongst transgenders is quite high.
If academics from Yale disapprove you’re doing something right.
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Transgenders desperately need treatment; what they don’t need is their delusions indulged or encouragement to undergo genital mutilation. It’s coming out now that it just makes mentally ill people suicidal.
The Tranny fears DeSantis.
if you don’t like it, don’t come to the state.
we have no interest in blue state freaks
Should we listen to:
1. Parents
2. Insane marxist, left-wing academics in universities who want to groom children to be sex slaves
Hmmm, tough choice. Let me think about it.
“seven scientists and a law professor”
Sounds like a Three Stooges episode.
Academics is an old Indian word meaning too lazy to get a job and work for a living. Real idiots.
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