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Comment on Ohio is poised to become 2nd state to restrict transgender health care for adults

Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

“It is a policy project that attempts to make it so onerous, so restrictive to get care, that people are functionally unable to do so,” said Kellan Baker, executive director of the Whitman-Walker Institute, a Washington-based organization focused on the health of LGBTQ+ people.

Just like our immigration policy. Make it super difficult and say “well I don’t have a problem with it if they do it legally.”

I think a lot of people are really worried that there’s a huge organized plan by liberal woke trans nonbinaries intent on tricking as many people and children (please won’t someone think of the children!) as possible into gender reassignment. This doesn’t make any sense tho because the only ones who would profit from such a scheme is the for-profit healthcare and big pharma, but leftists are largely mad at them.

It’s nothing more than a big moral panic about a very small and politically powerless minority. God bless America.

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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Make it super difficult and say “well I don’t have a problem with it if they do it legally.”

You think going to a person who specializes in hormones is difficult?

I strongly disagree. Would you let your primary doctor do a heart transplant on you? Would you let them do a colonoscopy? I wouldn’t. You go to the right doctor for the job.

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- Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well to be fair, I have never been to an endocrinologist nor sought treatment for gender dysphoria. But I wonder, is this legislation necessary? I think it was written from the perspective of someone who believes young people are deciding over breakfast “I want to be a girl now,” or “I want to be a boy now,” and have changed their wardrobe and gotten hormone injections that afternoon. I don’t believe it happens like that.
  
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  - wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    But I wonder, is this legislation necessary Since liberals love the Nordic countries, this is more liberal than the Nordic model.
    
    Now I would like to see only the endocrinologist prescribing the hormones and the psychiatrist doing the evaluation. I have not seen the written law to see if they make that distinction.
    
    hormone injections that afternoon. I don’t believe it happens like that. It happens like that very often. When my friend decided to transition, she went to the clinic and was out in under an hour with hormones. PP even praised on their website you can be in and out in under an hour with hormones.
    
    To be clear that law doesn’t stop that for adults. They can still do that.
    
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