They would require psychiatrists, endocrinologists and medical ethicists to have roles in creating facility-wide gender-affirming care plans for patients of all ages. Patients under 21 would have to receive at least six months of mental health counseling before starting gender-affirming medication or surgery. Providers would be barred from referring minors to treatment elsewhere, such as clinics in other states.
I am fairly pro-transgender rights with some exceptions.
If anyone has read my prior post, I have always said a psychiatrist or endocrinologist should be involved with transgender people.
The law to me is a good thing. I don’t agree with the below 21, it should be 18.
I also don’t agree with the referring clause. That is good medicine to refer people to other doctors and sometimes they are outside your state.
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.
People who are considering gender reassignment surgery definitely need these services. But if the hoops are too much for providers to adequately meet, thereby effectively banning procedures; that’s another problem.
Ultimately if you trust your doctor enough to perform a sex change and your doctor seems you mentally fit for such an operation, it’s my opinion the state should stay out of it
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.
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.
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.
To be clear that law doesn’t stop that for adults. They can still do that.
If my primary care doctor wouldn’t perform open heart surgery because he’d lose his license after he killed me. But if my doctor is qualified to perform a procedure and I am deemed of fit mind to consent to it, why should the state have any say?
That would be an endocrinologist unless we want to ignore training.