Posted on 04/25/2023 8:46:58 PM PDT by Morgana
DES MOINES (LifeSiteNews) – Iowa is the latest state to prohibit surgical or chemical “transitioning” of gender-confused minors as well as forcing students to share restrooms with members of the opposite sex, thanks to new laws signed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
The Des Moines Register reports that on Wednesday, Reynolds signed Senate File 538, which forbids the administering of prohibits Iowa doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or “transition” surgeries to anyone younger than 18, and Senate File 482, which forbids schools from allowing individuals to use a bathroom or changing that does not match their biological sex.
The second bill also requires parental consent for a student to use alternative facilities, in order to prevent schools from indulging a child’s gender confusion behind their parents’ backs.
“We need to just pause, we need to understand what these emerging therapies actually may potentially do to our kids,” Reynolds said. “My heart goes out to them. I’m a parent, I’m a grandmother, I know how difficult this is. This is an extremely uncomfortable position for me to be in. I don’t like it. But I have to do what I believe right now is in the best interest of the kids.” issues.
Left-wing groups including the Iowa chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Iowa State Education Association condemned the new laws. Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director for the far-left LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign, attacked the “transitioning” measure as “life-threatening.”
However, evidence indicates that the danger rests with promoting transgenderism, rather than curbing it.
Studies find that more than 80% of children experiencing gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence, and that even full “reassignment” surgery often fails to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide — and may even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
On top of those issues, experts outside the medical establishment further warn that surgically or chemically reinforcing gender confusion imposes irreversible harm on children such as infertility, impairment of adult sexual function, and reduced life expectancy, as well as the psychological toll of being “locked into” physical alterations regardless of whether they change their minds when they mature.
The issue is grimly illustrated in the story of Yaeli Martinez, a 19-year-old to whom “gender transitioning” was touted as a possible cure for her depression in high school, supported by a high school counselor who withheld what she was going through from her mother. The troubled girl killed herself after trying to live as a man for three years.
Many oft-ignored “detransitioners,” individuals who attempted to live under a different “gender identity” before embracing their sex, attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion, as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject.
As for the other law, conservatives warn that forcing children and teens to share intimate facilities such as bathrooms, showers, or changing areas with members of the opposite sex violates their privacy rights, subjects them to needless emotional stress, and gives potential male predators a viable pretext to enter female bathrooms or lockers by simply claiming transgender status.
The problem is currently on full display in Virginia, where a grand jury returned charges against fired ex-Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent Scott Ziegler for allegedly covering up the rape of a female student by a “transgender” classmate in a girls’ bathroom due to its damaging implications for the LGBT movement.
Whoa! This is a tidal wave! How many states in just the last 72 hours?
Seems to me that the “national divorce” accelerates!
Queer & fear States vs. straight and GREAT States.
Bring it on!
MAGA!
This has been since January but there has been several since March.
Now that the normal human backlash against this insanity gains traction the mentally ill gender dysphoria nutjobs are getting increasingly violent.
Social Media posts by those mentally unstable people are becoming more and more radical. Blatantly telling people they will arm themselves and murder all who oppose them.
The fact that the Media is completely ignoring.
Female Gov.does it. It’s our cover. She’ll be the point man unless you’d prefer Nancy Mace.
Take names of squishes who find religion while riding the wave.
Good question!
“She’ll be the point man unless you’d prefer Nancy Mace.”
What the heck are you talking about? This response has absolutely no bearing whatsoever concerning my post. Reading comprehension appears to be an ever-growing problem on this site.
I think it’s because roe is dead and buried!
Nancy Mace is just another RINO!
You should put these on a map...
Hopefully the Iowa law allows for a penalty of kicking the crap out of any male who tries to access women’s facilities. Long overdue.
Here is something most people don’t know about our amazing Governor:
She wanted to pass school choice last year. There were several Republican reps holding up the process...including some high-ranking members.
She got involved and endorsed opponents in primaries. There were 5 or 6 of them...and, they lost! Her preferred candidates then easily won in the general last fall. Hence, school choice sailed right through!
DeSantis has said “When people talk about America’s best Governor, I always look behind me to see if Kim is standing there.” He’s right, and most people don’t know it.
How about following the lead of truly brave African nations who are really standing up to the origin of these kinds of surgeries by outlawing homosexual activity!
Gee. How controversial. Hooray. Such f’n common sense it makes me sick why legislation like this is necessary in the 1st place.
Minnesota, you should have done what Iowa did, but you did the opposite. Thank you, Iowa, thank you Kim.
Amen. Proud of my Hawkeye state.
Studies find that more than 80% of children experiencing gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence,
same thing happened with Beatle haircuts and hoola hoops.
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