DeSantis spread false info about trans kids healthcare says Judge
DeSantis spread false info about trans kids healthcare says Judge
“When I’m analyzing the governor’s motivation, what should I make of these statements? This seems to be more than just hyperbole”
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – During a hearing Thursday in a suit against the state of Florida over its law that bans gender-affirming healthcare for minors, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle flatly stated that Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly spread false information claiming that doctors were mutilating children’s genitals as the reason to enact the law.
The Associated Press reported Judge Hinkle told Mohammad Jazil, a lawyer for the state, the law was sold as defending children from mutilation when it is actually about preventing trans children from getting health care.
“When I’m analyzing the governor’s motivation, what should I make of these statements?” Hinkle asked. “This seems to be more than just hyperbole.”
You know who's really mutilating kids' genitals? Any doctor who performs medically unnecessary circumcisions on infants.
Or doctors who “correct” infants who are born intersex
If doctors were ethical, we wouldn’t have red states running rabid on women’s rights to their own bodies.
Not one medical organization has threatened to stop serving everyone until deep red states like Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho etc. leave women’s healthcare out of right wing politics.
But some red states have begun losing entire obstetrics departments. It’s becoming a real crisis.
There are serious ethical questions of “do we let people die because their representatives hurt people in ways that don’t affect this directly?” Where gynecologists are fleeing people are dying, maternal mortality is up among other issues.
That would go against the Hippocratic oath for a lot of people
Bro I didn't know! We were torn on what to do. We read up on it and decided to match the culture of the country!
As an easy guideline, if other developed countries with better healthcare systems don't do it, it's probably not necessary.
Thank fuck and damn that’s a good response from the judge
That hateful asshole needs to step down. Better people have done so over FAR less than what that piece of shit has done.
lol, no fucking shit. We didn’t need a court to affirm this. We have all known this for five or six years at least. DeSantis is a gigantic and tremendous piece of shit. Anyone who needed to be reminded of this… Voilà.