The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.

Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.

  • Concetta
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    1191 year ago

    Actually fucking painful the amount of people I had this argument with, hate being vindicated in this way. It was never about the children, it’s purely about hate.

    • @thepianistfroggollum
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      691 year ago

      It’s never, ever about the children. Even abortion isn’t about the children. Children are just a convenient and effective red herring.

      • @[email protected]
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        451 year ago

        If Republicans cared in the slightest about children, they would have done something after Sandy Hook other than make up conspiracy theories.

        • keeb420
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          231 year ago

          like the wise man said “if youre preborn youre fine. if youre preschool youre fucked.”

        • @[email protected]
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          -101 year ago

          That’s a minority of people who aren’t conservative so much as they are extremist. Just very vocal. On the other end of the spectrum, there are actual people who want to transition their toddlers. They are also very vocal.

          But so now you have people leaning left judging everyone right of them by the most vocal extremists on the right side, and vice versa. And then the divide between left and right seems to widen, because in politics it’s apparently law that every action be met with an even bolder counter action, so if you try and be neutral about any of this you’ll lose your mind!

          Can’t you see that this isn’t even about you versus me, both actually just very mildly distant in our ideals, but about you and me versus whoever is profiting over us spending the time to debate this in the first place?

        • @[email protected]
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          91 year ago

          Now now, they also care about them as soon as they’re old enough to enlist in the military. But as soon as their service is over, fuck 'em again.