The government specifically targeting the well-being of minority children is sickening. Medical decisions rest between a patient and their healthcare professional who, unlike lawmakers, are actually trained to provide that care.
It’s hard to quantify the mental toll these endless attacks have on our whole community. Transgender youth have already had to deal with many institutional barriers to accessing hormones and hormone suppressants that save their lives. Now they have to contend not only with constant political attacks against them and a coordinated effort at genociding their entire community, buy also with the state outting them to parents who may abuse them if they find out. Many children are abused at home, a staggering amount actually. Queer children are significantly more likely to suffer abuse in their homes.
These laws are attempts to kill children, to prevent queer children from being allowed to openly be themselves. These children live under constant fear of the state. Their government is actively hostile towards them and their rights. There is a persistent and growing fear amongst everyone in our community that it is only a matter of time before a state decides to force all trans people into conversion therapy and forced internment. These kids know that too. They’re not stupid they see what is happening. Genocide is anything but subtle, and the fascists have been declaring their intentions towards us loudly for years now.
I think you’re largely right except I would add that I think these people are so detached from reality that they don’t see trans kids as human.
I fail to see why the government gets to tell anyone what they can do with their own bodies, especially when it comes to medical care.
It makes perfect sense when you consider Republicans are the party of sMAlL GoVurnmebt
These people cannot fix any issues that plague their communities, so instead they want to control and micromanage a bunch of teens.
Classic shitty adult.
They want these kids in a vulnerable state so they can force their values on them.
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-defends-child-marriage-im-pro-choice-1898619
Yep!
They have to have some Satan figure, a bunch of people who they can blame societal woes on. Even better if they are a minority so they have little power to resist as they deny them healthcare, councling, or emergency housing. Instead, they want these kids tamed and “forced straight”, shifting freedom away from these kids to empower traditional family values of control.
On top of that, winning the culture wars sounds cringe but is integral to maintaining their system.
It’s all about fear and control. Americans have proven to be sheep and the wolves have moved in.
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Republicans are missing a brain.
The sad part is that they arent… this is just how their brains are.
The title just doesn’t care.
Seems like they accidentally the whole Coke bottle.
I see this law covers drugs and surgeries. Does “gender-affirming care” include therapy?
Of course it does, but not according to the anti-trans propaganda machine.
They pretend that it’s all about putting kids on dangerous drugs and performing surgery on a whim. They then use that complete fiction as a pretense to ban it all, including the therapy.
