Anti-trans organizations have said that their position against gender affirming care center on “protecting kids.” Now, a Florida judge has allowed them to proceed with their next target: trans adults.
Several weeks ago, a federal judge in Florida halted a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, declaring it likely unconstitutional. Yet, transgender adults were also heavily impacted by the law: 80% of gender-affirming care providers for trans adults in the state were forced to stop. Consequently, many found themselves forced to flee the state, temporarily or permanently, in order to access care. Those forced to stay clung to the hope that the provisions targeting them might also be overruled. However, those hopes suffered a setback when the 11th Circuit Court determined that discriminating against transgender individuals in healthcare would be allowed, at least in the short term. Relying on this verdict, the Florida Judge Monday declined to block the sections affecting trans adult care. Now, the precedent has been set for adult care bans, a stark contradiction to some anti-trans activists’ assurances that their sole aim was to “protect children.”
Earlier this year, Florida passed SB254. The bill did not only prohibit gender-affirming care for transgender youth, but also casted stringent requirements for care on trans adults. Specifically, the laws bars nurse practitioners from administering care and mandates that providers distribute inaccurate medical forms, laden with misleading narratives, suggesting treatments are experimental. This was a substantial change, as the vast amount of trans adult care is provided by nurse practitioners. A representative from a clinic in the state, SPEKTRUM Health, estimated that 80% of such care would be affected. Further, the new informed consent form dictates a pre-requisite of “social support” before a trans individual embarks on care, despite many trans adults losing social support from their families after they transition. Though the initial discussion centered on the effect of the bill on trans youth, trans adults across the state suddenly saw their prescriptions dropped by their providers as a result.
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Literally nobody ever believed it was about “protecting the children.” This was never anything more than a cheap shot by those with low and questionable moral value to force everyone else down to their own level in the swamps. Anyone who tells you they are doing this “as a proper Christian” are the same kind of people who are so morally bankrupt that they can’t even tell you what it means to love thy neighbor without looking up the words in their favorite piece of fiction.
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There’s literally no difference between a trans person getting medical care like hormone therapy and any adult getting any other type of treatment. If you take pills for your limp dick, get breast implants, or use hormone therapy for things like controlling heavy menstrual bleeding or even as a form of cancer treatment, your rights are at risk. It’s merely a matter of who is in the White House and who controls the legislative bodies. These dickhead republicans are entirely shortsighted in that respect. Not that it matters, their base will eat it up as a victory. They literally led these idiots off a cliff during Covid and they cheered Trumps name as they took their last fibrosis riddled breath.
Wow who could’ve thought that fascism would simply stop once it got its way?
These people will never stop ripping rights away from others. I’ll never understand people pushing their will on others.
Impossible, it’s the party of rights and freedoms! Pew pew!
Literal Nazis
People forget only half of the concentration camps victims were Jewish, nazis treated the LGBT (and lots of other) communities the same.
By the end of it, it was anyone who disagreed with anything they said.
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Coming soon: “No Longer About Trans”
They are going to keep pushing.
Until GoD is happy!
This is what happens with freedom of religion. Hope west europe starts putting bans into these extremist relgious groups.
We all knew where this was going, but I honestly didn’t think we’d getbl here so quickly.
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More generally: conservatism is hierarchy. It is inseparable from separation. It is humanity’s default tribal loyalty, as a theory-of-everything, and it demands both the veneration of powerful individuals as god-kings who can do no wrong, and the exclusion of arbitrary outgroups as though they are lesser human beings. Where that leads when unchecked is obvious. Where that leads when backed into a corner can be worse.
Never was.
Narrator: it never was intended for ‘the children’
It was never about kids.
Anyone that knew their history knew that the whole “PROTECT THE CHILDREEENS” rhetoric was nothing more than a ploy to get a foot in the door for all this shit.
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This is genocidal.
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China has infrastructure investment and affirmative action. What do red states have?
Gerrymandering
Ahh, single party rule which puts us right back on par with China.
At least in China you can get people executed for corruption and demoted for not following the will of the people 🤷♀️
Same thing as when they were afraid of gay marriage.
They are still against gay marriage
They are still against "race mixing’, and that will be on the chopping block next, along with making non-whites losing the vote, women losing the vote, and slavery becoming a thing again, but they won’t call it that, it will be “caring for a dependant of the state” only the only way to cease being a dependant of the state is to die or flee the country.
fuck Florida, the sea can have it
