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Utah Bans Transition Care for Transgender Youth

Because doctors get it wrong sometimes
Less than 1%., some estimates .3% of "transitioned" individuals "have regrets". That's just a false narrative promoted by anti-trans fomenters, as there are so many opportunities to "get off that train" before any reassignment surgery is performed. A friend of mine has been postponing it for years because she just can't afford it and her insurance won't cover it, but has been living as a woman for nearly a decade. Another friend had to fight his parents until he came of age to finally get the breast reduction he'd been working toward since childhood. 10 years later, never a moment's hesitation.
 
Less than 1%., some estimates .3% of "transitioned" individuals "have regrets". That's just a false narrative promoted by anti-trans fomenters, as there are so many opportunities to "get off that train" before any reassignment surgery is performed. A friend of mine has been postponing it for years because she just can't afford it and her insurance won't cover it, but has been living as a woman for nearly a decade. Another friend had to fight his parents until he came of age to finally get the breast reduction he'd been working toward since childhood. 10 years later, never a moment's hesitation.
Well, some of us dont want to allow fascist witch doctors to experiment on our children.
 
Less than 1%., some estimates .3% of "transitioned" individuals "have regrets". That's just a false narrative promoted by anti-trans fomenters, as there are so many opportunities to "get off that train" before any reassignment surgery is performed. A friend of mine has been postponing it for years because she just can't afford it and her insurance won't cover it, but has been living as a woman for nearly a decade. Another friend had to fight his parents until he came of age to finally get the breast reduction he'd been working toward since childhood. 10 years later, never a moment's hesitation.
I know you hate those people because they don't fit into your political agenda


And very few people are trans as well


The idea that it's OK because it's only a few of them is revolting
 
I know you hate those people because they don't fit into your political agenda


And very few people are trans as well


The idea that it's OK because it's only a few of them is revolting
That makes no sense.
 
So 99.7% of the affected people have to be punished for the regrets of .3% Where's the logic in that?
 

Utah Bans Transition Care for Transgender Youth (NYT, Subscription)​

Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah signed a bill on Saturday that blocks minors from receiving gender-transition health care, the first such measure in the country this year in what is expected to be a wave of legislation by state lawmakers to restrict transgender rights.

The law prohibits transgender youth in the state from receiving gender-affirming surgery and places an indefinite ban on hormone therapy, with limited exceptions.

Mr. Cox, a Republican, said in a statement that banning these treatments was necessary until more research could be done on their long-term effects.

“While we understand our words will be of little comfort to those who disagree with us, we sincerely hope that we can treat our transgender families with more love and respect as we work to better understand the science and consequences behind these procedures,” the governor said.


Once again, a State ignores medical science (yes, I know they claim not to), the wishes of parents (so much for "family values") and pushes to harm a significant part of the US population as political theater. I expect this will be struck down in short order. The Supreme Court - particularly the "conservatives" - have long pushed the fundamental interest of parents in the care and raising of children:

"The liberty interest at issue in this case-the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their childrenis perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court. More than 75 years ago, in Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U. S. 390, 399, 401 (1923), we held that the "liberty" protected by the Due Process Clause includes the right of parents to "establish a home and bring up children" and "to control the education of their own." Two years later, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510, 534-535 (1925), we again held that the "liberty of parents and guardians" includes the right "to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control." We explained in Pierce that "[t]he child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations." Id., at 535. We returned to the subject in Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U. S. 158 (1944), and again confirmed that there is a constitutional dimension to the right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children. "It is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder." Id., at 166.

Continued.
There is no medical science in butchering children good for Utah.

This shouldn't be something we have to ban it should already be against ethics
 
Because they are "not real people" you see. They "don't matter". It's about control, and who gets to exercise it. Certainly not the children or their "weak" parents who give in to their "whims". It has to be prohibited by the state. Make them wear little pink triangles or something.
Well that and they believe trans people are mentally ill to the point their agency to even make decisions is denied.
 
These idiots obviously haven't heard about the devastating side effects that puberty blockers can have for minors:

Puberty blockers are given to minors that experience pre-mature puberty way before this became a trans thing.
 
Less than 1%., some estimates .3% of "transitioned" individuals "have regrets". That's just a false narrative promoted by anti-trans fomenters, as there are so many opportunities to "get off that train" before any reassignment surgery is performed. A friend of mine has been postponing it for years because she just can't afford it and her insurance won't cover it, but has been living as a woman for nearly a decade. Another friend had to fight his parents until he came of age to finally get the breast reduction he'd been working toward since childhood. 10 years later, never a moment's hesitation.
I mean when you take a meta analysis, its pretty clear the overwhelming majority are helped.
 
except, that entails ignoring the vast majority who prefer to have a choice.
They said that about white people preferring to have a choice not to go to school with black kids
 
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