Trump details plan to ban gender-affirming care for minors and adults
Trump details plan to ban gender-affirming care for minors and adults
Trump promises to revoke existing policies supporting gender transition programs and treatments across the U.S.
Trump’s policy agenda includes a Congressional bill to define government-recognized genders strictly as male and female, as assigned at birth.
I have to wonder what is going to happen when the law runs headlong into science here. Because sure, this might primarily affect trans-folk, but they aren't the only ones who defy strict binary gender.
I believe their official stance is simply that any “expert who thinks they know better than the duly elected president” will be fired or ignored
Just have to look at climate science for an example of science taking a backseat to political will.
Intersex and the rest will be ignored and marginalized, just like always.
I have to wonder what is going to happen when the law runs headlong into science here.
They'll double down even harder like the failed war on drugs, despite the damage it's causing. As long as conservatives "feel" like something is the correct solution, it's the right way to go, all evidence, studies, and science be damned.
yup their feelings dont care about the facts
Science?? Have you seen the abortion debate? There are vegetables classified as fruit and other horrors on the law books. Science got nothing to do with it.
So there is a colloquial definition of fruit/veg and a scientific definition. You have a point here, but have there been any court cases that hinged on these laws? And did they hinge in a way that the scientific definition was paramount?
So many people wanting to argue that Republicans don't care about science, but I don't disagree with that. I know they don't. But eventually there are going to be court cases that adjudicate whether a person is legally a man or a woman, and I'm just really curious what the outcome of those cases will be when the law flies in the face of fact.
Did you ever read about the time someone tried to legislate that the value of pi is 3.2? It was saved by the Indiana Senate not falling for that bullshit. Unfortunately, there will be no last-minute rescue in this case. I know it's going to be a clusterfuck. But I also wonder how judges are going to react to people who legitimately do not match the definition of male or female.
This attempt to discriminate against trans-folk will inevitably bump up against ambiguity which a simple binary construct cannot address.
Why do you think that science has any place in the Trump administration?
I don't, but when you get to a courtroom, where there are standards of evidence, a judge is going to have to make interpretations that don't match up with the law.
Hell what happens when there is a typo on a birth certificate? If I'm assigned female at birth and am not genetically nor biologically female, what then? I just have to wait five times as long in bathroom lines? Does the government get to track my menstruation?
All of Trumpists' dreams of simplicity are defeated by asking just the most obvious questions. Imagine if I were smart enough to ask good questions.
Just like a good little Nazi.
I was naive to think they'd try easing into this stuff, but — perhaps fortunately for public outrage and taking action — they are being loud and clear about it. Really just no subtlety whatsoever to the fascist horror.
Why be subtle? A majority voted for him, he has all 3 branches of government, and any opposition he has is too concerned about decorum to do anything to stop him. Thanks, non-voters in swing states!
Misleading headline. Nowhere does the article mention anything about banning such care for adults.
It's still wholly and completely shit, but the headline and the first paragraph are (as of right now) incorrect.
It will be kind of hard for adults to get gender-affirming care, though, when the government enforces that your gender is fixed at birth.
He also proposed excluding hospitals and healthcare providers who offer these services from Medicaid and Medicare
Repealing Roe V Wade was only about stopping late term abortions. It's not that hard to read the room with this orange dipshit.
Press spreading lies because of an agenda. Colour me surprised
This is the man who said "you send your kid to school as a boy, and they change his sex and send him home a girl." He told his rally goers that schools do sex changes and they believed him.
Hair plugs are gender affirming care for men. Those banned too?
Sucks that breast augmentation will be banned for girls under 18. And I assume likewise for guys regarding treatment for gynecomastia.
The party of rAtIOnAliTY aNd lOgiC would know that those are also gender affirming. Right?
As predictable as the sun rising in the East. BTW, if you are easy to outrage, you have a bad number of years ahead.
All the innersex conservatives sweating right wondering if they'll also be marginalized
Whoopsy
That’s fantastic! Thanks Trump. ❤️
Your account history is too shallow to know if this is sarcasm
I'm going to guess sarcasm.
Ah yes, for all the most accurate and insightful news about the US election's consequences I always turn to Pakistani news outlets.
“On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden's policies on so-called gender-affirming care. Ridiculous. A process that involves giving kids puberty blockers, mutating their physical appearance, and ultimately performing surgery on minor children. Can you believe this?”
This is the reason he won. Society ain't happy with plastic surgeries performed on children
prohibitions on gender-affirming care for both minors and adults
Only minors, neither article nor my own research point to adult ban. Looks like the article lies on purpose
Society ain't happy with plastic surgeries performed on children
Which statistically isn't a thing that's happening and I've never heard anyone argue in favor of.
The study found no gender-affirming surgeries performed on TGD youth ages 12 and younger in 2019. This was expected, the researchers said, as current international guidelines do not suggest any medical or surgical intervention for TGD individuals prior to puberty. For teens ages 15 to 17 and adults ages 18 and older, the rate of undergoing gender-affirming surgery with a TGD-related diagnosis was 2.1 per 100,000 and 5.3 per 100,000, respectively. A majority of these surgeries were chest surgeries.
Plastic surgery is performed on children all the time. How do you think we treat cleft lip/palate? Or deal with rrcovery from facial etc. injuries after an accident? Dumbass.
The most common type of gender affirming care is boys spontaneously developing breasts and wanting them removed. Nothing to do with being trans.
I'm sure once some high-ranking Republican's son is getting bullied relentlessly for having titties, they'll rethink their position.
People didn't care enough to show up to stop forced births, you think they care about puberty blockers? Doubt.
He also proposed excluding hospitals and healthcare providers who offer these services from Medicaid and Medicare
I don't think it's the reason why Trump won.
Also, most people don't experience trans problems, so the whole thing is a storm in a teacup. Let people have more medical care, not less.