Posted on 01/01/2025 4:12:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
One of the most insidious assertions of the pro-trans left is that those who oppose puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones, and other pseudo-scientific medical interventions for trans-identifying youth have “blood on their hands.” This is because, such ideologues claim, children deprived of this purported “medical care” are more likely to kill themselves.
The fallaciousness of such declarations, however, is becoming more evident in light of acknowledgments from some unlikely sources in the media and medical establishment.
The Inflammatory Ideological Charge Regarding Trans Youth…
The “blood on the hands” slander of the pro-trans left has become predictably commonplace in recent years. NBC earlier this month covered pro-trans activists protesting outside the Supreme Court who alleged our nation’s highest court would have “blood on its hands” if it didn’t determine a Tennessee law limiting access to such interventions was discriminatory. A Missouri LGBT public policy and advocacy organization in November accused Circuit Judge Craig Carter of having “blood on his hands” for upholding a law that restricted transgender medical interventions on kids.
In one of the most inflammatory examples of this rhetoric, transgender-identifying Montana state legislator Zooey Zephyr in April 2023 described state restrictions on such experiments as “tantamount to torture.” Zephyr provocatively warned: “I hope the next time there’s an invocation, when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands.”
These charges were always based on flawed reasoning, even absent any reference to data related to youth suicide incidence rates. How would restricting medical professionals from giving irreversible drugs and surgeries to an otherwise healthy kid be responsible for the latter’s suicide, especially given that as recently as a couple of decades ago, these pharmaceutical interventions were unheard of? And why would large numbers of gender dysphoric youths...
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Its only fair........
100% of trans kids have leftwing mothers.
Wouldn’t you suspect something is wrong, if self-professed intelligent people use of the term ‘assigned at birth” as if the child comes out of the womb as a hermaphrodite creature and the attending physician must make a determination of sex using some undefined set of factors. They then say the determination made is only preliminary, and as a social construct, is subject to refinement into a variety of genders. Efforts to help children to live according to their self-evident anatomy has become “conversion therapy” and is considered bad. However, indoctrination followed by brutal chemical treatment, and surgical actions to alter the natural self is called “gender affirming care” and is good.
Wrong.
But this is the level of discourse that is typical around here nowadays.
Any person in the whole entire process has blood on their hands.
All staff, schedulers, medical and non, all callously choosing their job, enriching themself at a cost God likely isn’t pleased about.
Wonder what God thinks of tithe money from people involved in various ungodly activities?
All adults involved in this need the millstone treatment.
We don’t allow this with anything else. We don’t tell anorexic women, “You know what honey, you ARE fat. They’re all bigots.”
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