Posted on 01/07/2023 11:43:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
After a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year, Republican state lawmakers this year are zeroing in on questions of bodily autonomy with new proposals to limit gender-affirming health care and abortion access.
More than two dozen bills seeking to restrict transgender health care access have been introduced across 11 states — Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia — for the legislative sessions beginning in early 2023.
Bills targeting other facets of trans livelihood have been filed in many of the same states and are expected in several others with GOP majorities.
Gender-affirming health care providers and parents of trans youths are the primary targets of these bills, many of which seek to criminalize helping a trans child obtain what doctors and psychologists widely consider “medically necessary care.”
Cathy Renna, spokesperson for the National LGBTQ Task Force, said she views these bills as the product of “a permissible climate of hate,” driven by disinformation and fearmongering, that made anti-LGBTQ rhetoric more palatable in the years since former President Donald Trump’s election in 2016.
“We have politicians, celebrities and just folks in our communities who were given permission under Trump to kind of pick that scab and do and say harmful things without consequence,” Renna said. “It unleashed a nightmare Pandora’s box of sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism.”
“When you look at the last few years,” she said of the LGBTQ community, “we feel like we’re under attack in a way that we have not for decades.”
Meanwhile, Democrats in some states are taking a more aggressive approach to transgender health protections.
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“When you look at the last few years,” she said of the LGBTQ community, “we feel like we’re under attack in a way that we have not for decades.”
And yet, society has never been more open and accepting, and “tolerant”, if you will, of all this homosexuality and transgender business, than it is right now.
There is NOTHING “gender affirming” about that surgery
Nothing can fix a reprobate mind.
We are in the days of Lot.
Just as prophesied by Jesus Christ.
Tagline.
Yep, it’s “transphobia” to pass legislation to regulate cutting off this and surgically altering that body part.
That’s where we are. The liberal view is that it is a crime against humanity, to want to regulate any of that activity.
As the mother of a trans child, I’m glad to see the pushback on lunacy.
Transgenderism is an extremely rare medical condition typically brought about by a defect in the endocrine system or a recessive genetic syndrome. There should not be a trans child in every classroom. There shouldn’t even be a trans kid in every school. It is statistically impossible.
All these kids identifying as trans are being brainwashed and butchered.
All these freaks claiming to speak for the trans community are HARMING my child, not helping.
Strip doctors of their licenses for this crap. You can’t chemically castrate child rapists but you can do it to children.
If I was an atheist, I’d be questioning that line of reasoning right now.
Excellent comment.
She ought to read Romans 1.
Meanwhile, Democrats in some states are taking a more aggressive approach to transgender health protections.
Like what? Protecting minors from medically unjustified mutilating surgeries and poisoning them with sex hormones? No. Tell the truth, Hannah. You should have written “transgender promotion.”
ANY doctor that does this is on the level of Josef Mengele. They have committed crimes against humanity.
They only need mental health care. The rest is child abuse.
Transgender healthcare translates to genital mutilation.
Nah…the covid jabs were blood in the water. They are just warming up. Same people have been warning everyone. Ignorance has impacted the entire taxpayer base. What is the exact cost of Medicare, welfare and state benefits for same sex marriage.
If In Living Color was still on air: “Mutilation money, mutilation money, mutilation money!”
I wish they were under attack, medical mutilations and homosexual acts all illegal.
“...zeroing in on questions of bodily autonomy...”
Should a doctor be allowed to cut off a perfectly healthy arm because someone thinks he’s really a one-armed man? Or eyes blinded so that someone can become blind?
Or are delusions regarding sex special?
We need war crimes trials for everyone involved.
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