criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors.
So I ask forum libs. Is this a good bill?
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How about you give your cue cards that let you know when itâs ok for the government to take medical decisions for children out of the hands of parents and when itâs not OK for them to do that?
That would be helpful if you laid out your metrics for this question.
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Is that what YOU think this isâŚmedical decision?
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Honestly if I had a child who was transgendered and they were absolutely sure they wanted to take puberty blockers, Iâd move out of the state to somewhere more welcoming.
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In what way isnât it a medical decision?
Small government conservatives using the power of the State to deny care.
Sounds about right.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a procedure undertaken to treat a minor born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development, including either of the following:
An individual born with external biological sex characteristics that are irresolvably ambiguous, including an individual born with 46 XX chromosomes with virilization, 46 XY chromosomes with under virilization, or having both ovarian and testicular tissue.
An individual whom a physician has otherwise diagnosed with a disorder of sexual development, in which the physician has determined through genetic or biochemical testing that the person does not have normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action for a male or female.
Thatâs nice. Government wonât interfere in some cases.
In what way is this still not government interference with a parentâs rights to make medical decisions with and for their children?
I didnât say it wasnât. Just getting out in front of the hysteria story time
They will recognize physical transsexual issues but not mental ones.
Because the brain you know⌠no issues there ever.
It seems to protect those that need it while denying others to just willy-nilly mutilate children at their own cosmetic whim.
Sounds great. 
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You mean like circumcision?
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A physical âsolutionâ for a mental problem?
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What if the parent decides the child will be less likely to get run over by a car if they gphave the feet removed?
Calling a mutilation a âmedical treatmentâ doesnât change what it is.
The states often intervene in cases of child abuse.
My best friend in the world is trans, but has never transitioned. Sheâs almost 70 and options werenât available in her time. Sheâs usually called âsirâ by most people who donât know her, sheâs that masculine. Sheâs lived her life as a gay woman and has talked about her childhood. She says she never remembered a time when she didnât think she was a boy, even in her earliest memories.
A few years ago we were reading about Diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug that was given to pregnant women. My friendâs mother had taken it and unlike thalidomide, which produced visible disabilities to the babies born, It was decades before the effects of the drug were noticed. I believe the DES/transgender link is still so far anecdotal, but there are many researching this issue. Whoâs to say that the highly processed and chemical ladened food we feed our kids today isnât doing something like DES? Or the plastic found in human blood. Or the bottled water that is so loosely regulated and inspected.
Instead of demonizing these kids and their parents, more research is needed, taking out the âicky gayâ and âicky transâ preconceptions. Good lord, this is 2022, youâd think by now weâd know better, but weâre going backwards.
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Seems to me that there are going to be some folks who routinely say, âThe Government should stay out of our personal livesâ will be cheering this. I wonder how long before this is in the courts?
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Not the stateâs call to call it child abuse unless they have evidence it is so.
Objective evidence not fee fees.
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Manic depressives take lithium.
There are drugs for mental depression and they work.
Many natural foods and supplements do the same thing.
Your division into âmentalâ and âphysicalâ is an illusionâŚa myth.
Removing body parts is objective as it gets. When that is done, someone needs to be able to explain exactly why.
And not âfee feesâ.
