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Anxiety, fear fill West Virginia transgender-health clinic
The Associated Press ^ | March 9, 2023 | By LEAH WILLINGHAM

Posted on 03/09/2023 8:05:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The tiny clinic where physicians prescribe hormones and other medications to transgender teenagers shares the same campus where West Virginia kids travel to receive treatments for rare cancer, heart surgery and other health care difficult to get anywhere else.

In a rural state purported to have the highest number of transgender youths per capita and some of the nation’s worst health outcomes, West Virginia University Medicine doctors say transgender health care is just as essential as the other lifesaving services they provide.

But it could soon be banned. Ignoring doctors’ pleas, lawmakers are preparing to vote this week on a bill that would outlaw certain health care for transgender minors, including hormone therapy and fully reversible medication that suspends the physical changes of puberty, buying patients and parents time to make future decisions about hormones.

“There’s a lot of anxiety and fear in our exam rooms right now,” said Dr. Kacie Kidd, medical director of WVU Medicine Children’s Adolescent Gender and Sexual Development Clinic.

Dakota Kai, 17, spent childhood in and out of psychiatric care because of depression and anxiety related to gender dysphoria.

Kai’s mother, Sherry, said she was apprehensive at first about hormone therapy. But after conversations with providers, she and her child confidently decided to pursue it and have no regrets. Transgender minors can’t begin medical interventions without parental consent.

“The amount of ignorance about the subject is honestly astounding,” she said. “Watching our society respond with such emotional fervor about something that they obviously logically don’t understand is terrifying.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: associatedpravda; genderaffirming; globohomo; globohomoagenda; homosexualagenda; leahwillingham; perverts; transgender
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1 posted on 03/09/2023 8:05:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

God created Adam and Eve. He knew what He was doing. Everyone else—not so much.


2 posted on 03/09/2023 8:07:14 AM PST by jimbug
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In a normal society any “transgender-health clinic” would be there to provide psychiatric care to the loons who think they are women.


3 posted on 03/09/2023 8:08:23 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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... emotional fervor about something that they obviously logically don’t understand is terrifying.”

There's that word again. Everything is "terrifying" to the weak mind of a proggy.

4 posted on 03/09/2023 8:11:44 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

This is some sick stuff folks. What would have been considered truly sick and evil and illegal just 10 years ago is now “normal” and if you oppose it you are a “bigot”.


5 posted on 03/09/2023 8:14:36 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: BenLurkin

Of course these kids are confused about their gender. They have people telling them lies from the day they were born. The kids think it’s cool to be a different gender instead of being boring and normal. Now kids are identifying as animals. What could be next? Identifying as a dead cat?


6 posted on 03/09/2023 8:14:42 AM PST by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>fully reversible medication

Prove it.


7 posted on 03/09/2023 8:16:06 AM PST by fretzer
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“We’re going to tell the bigots to shut up!” - Lindsay Faggot Graham


8 posted on 03/09/2023 8:16:53 AM PST by imabadboy99
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how much money are the doctors and hospitals making off of messing these kids up for life?


9 posted on 03/09/2023 8:19:31 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99

it’s truly insane that the leftist satanists try to kill babies before they’re even born. Then after birth, they try to mentally and physically scar them for life with tranny story hour and forcing them on gender bending drugs and mutilating them with surgeries.

Ephesians 6:12
King James Version
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.


10 posted on 03/09/2023 8:23:42 AM PST by imabadboy99
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11 posted on 03/09/2023 8:27:44 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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The “doctors” that did this should be sued into oblivion and put in jail! This is evil!


12 posted on 03/09/2023 8:29:33 AM PST by imabadboy99
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The WV state police should break the door down, and take all inside away in cuffs and shackles


13 posted on 03/09/2023 8:36:16 AM PST by darkangel82
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the Dims are right that our society is evil towards women, then how come most of their trans folks are men claiming to be women? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?


14 posted on 03/09/2023 8:37:36 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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“The tiny clinic where physicians prescribe hormones and other medications to transgender teenagers shares the same campus where West Virginia kids travel to receive treatments for rare cancer, heart surgery and other health care difficult to get anywhere else.”

But instead of being concerned for the kids with actual life-threatening medical conditions, let’s waste a lot of ink whining about kids the left wants to sexually mutilate.


15 posted on 03/09/2023 8:56:13 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is a heinous crime to waste American medical resources to pervert our children.

The Medical Industry, once admired, is a complete and utter moral and ethical shambles.


16 posted on 03/09/2023 8:58:59 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Transgender health care = cutting off perfectly good body parts


17 posted on 03/09/2023 10:48:59 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, gosh! we gave the wrong stuff to the patients who were here for other treatments. Oh, well, accidents will happen.


18 posted on 03/09/2023 10:50:04 AM PST by DPMD (ua)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have a correction as I noticed an obvious omission.

But it could soon be banned. “Ignoring doctors’ pleas”,THAT BANNING THE PROCEDURES WOULD EAT INTO THE CLINIC’S PROFIT AND SUPPORT BY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES..


19 posted on 03/09/2023 12:04:04 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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"Anxiety, fear fill West Virginia transgender-health clinic"[!!!!!!!]

Girl in a jacket

20 posted on 03/09/2023 12:31:56 PM PST by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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