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.
Form the powerhouse that brought you such groovy hits like, “Don’t Tread on Me” and “Small Goverment Now!” comes a new hip tune by the GOPissfarts:
“We Are Slackjawed Hypocrites.”
Enjoy their olympic-level feat of mental gymnastics as they spew the barely coherent rhetoric-laced psychobabble of meaningless nonsense while simultaneously trying to justify how “iTs diFfErEnT wHeN iTs aBoUt tEh gAyS*™”
it’s only hypocrisy if you take the right-wingers words at face value.
they’ve been very clear all along that the second half of “don’t tread on me” is “but expect me to tread on you”.
It’s not about gays though, it’s about children thinking they are trans.
Yes, there needs to be limits on the health care that is provided to children and parental concent.
There’s nothing hypocritical about that.
Most of those children KNOW they are trans. Do you have a problem with them too? Or is it just the one that think they are. Because for the ones that think they are, there’s therapy for them to get an understanding of what going on- but you conservatives are shutting that down.
So how about you tell me what’s to be done when that happens? What will we do about the ones that still think they’re trans when there’s nothing to help them under it?
Lastly…
What the fuck is wrong with someone being trans?
I disagree that children know they are trans.
You’re trying to equate bigotry “there must be something wrong with trans” with the idea that “children do not have enough life experience to understand complex things like sex and gender”
I don’t think children are smart enough not to shove a pencil up their nose, and you think they understand things like sex, gender expression, parenthood, and sexuality?
And you think children can decide they are trans?
No.
This kind of rhetoric has to stop.
Children cannot decide if they have gender dysphoria.
The existence of minorities conservatives want to oppress is not up for debate.
Trans adults recall being trans kids. But this is the root of most transphobia. You simply do not believe transgender people when they speak.
Keep your nose out of other people’s healthcare.
I think children are smarter than people like you give them credit for, and therapy can help them figure out how they feel and allow them to make sense of it all.
Children need advocacy, not people that think they’re not smart enough to tell when they don’t feel right.
Please don’t have children, and stay away from those of others. People like you should not be weighing in on the mental health of children.
A parental concent, like an Aerosmith show?
They came for the people who were disenfranchised and couldn’t vote them out of office.
Now they’re coming for you because you could have and didn’t.
Nobody deserves to be treated like this, to have stupid bigoted political games played with their healthcare, but if you were okay with it being done to young people, you at least should not be surprised that now it’s also being done to you.
What a nasty way to respond to a minority losing healthcare access. It’s really easy to sit there and tell them they should have tried harder when you’re not the one doing the work.
Exactly, this is a farcical argument. The simple fact is that we as a society are only as good as how we treat and support our most disenfranchised people.
This argument presumes that only trans and a handful of their friends and family members support trans rights and trans integration into broader society, when the truth is that the majority of people want trans integration because we know aforementioned simple fact from having researched, and in some cases lived, the consequences of not standing up for disenfranchised peoples in the past.
Now, do you really think there are enough trans adults in Florida to vote out the people who created this law? The article doesn’t say they voted Republican and I think we can assume they didn’t. The reason they used the word “blindsided” is because they say the adult aspects of the bill were never part of the public discussion in the news. Of course they could have sought out the full text of the bill, read it and publicized it themselves. But they probably thought they already knew it was a terrible idea without reading past the denial of care to youths. And even if they had risen en masse to protest both new laws, it would only have further energized the red wing who portray them as evil degenerates undermining society.
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The GOP in general, and DeSpicable in particular, need to survey the bottom of the Marianas Trench to show those bottom feeders how it’s done.
I hear OceanGate has the perfect submarine to get them there!
If I lived in Florida, I try and get telehealth and mail order scripts from a blue state that with trans sanctuary and healthcare protection laws.
They specifically banned Telehealth in the legislative changes.
I’m sure we will see red State bounty hunters entering blue states and kidnapping providers soon though.
I never thought the leopards would eat my face
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I don’t see how the title implies what you said was false? Sure they were surprised about this specific law, but it’s not like they didn’t think those leopards were gonna eat their face as soon as the young were devoured. This seems kind of victim blamey to me too.
The full leopards ate my face quote is about people voting for the leopards eating faces party, which I doubt trans people in Florida were doing
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I’m just waiting for the day I can vote him out of office. Just this once. I mean how are Floridians settling for this?!
If you’re both Trans and living in Florida and are “blindsided” by this, you are either very rich or very poor.
GOP are disgusting
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Like many transgender adults in Florida, he and Lucas are now facing tough choices, including whether to uproot their lives so that they can continue to access gender-confirming care.
Lucas, 26, lost his access to treatment when the Orlando clinic that prescribed him hormone replacement therapy stopped providing gender-affirming care altogether.
But SPEKTRUM Health Inc., the Orlando clinic that prescribed Lucas hormone replacement therapy, has stopped providing gender-affirming care.
“There are a lot of people looking for care that we’re no longer legally able to provide,” said Lana Dunn, SPEKTRUM Health’s chief operating officer.
Florida has the second-largest population of transgender adults in the U.S., at an estimated 94,900 people, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
While SPEKTRUM has bolstered its mental health services since the law passed, it and other organizations heavily rely on nurse practitioners to provide care.
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This is from June…
I am confused isn’t it a good thing? Nurses and telehealth workers are not doctors and seeing is a doctor is a much safer way than some rando nurse or telehealth worker.
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I honestly don’t think the laws requiring a doctor and informed consent are bad, it really is a major health and life change to take hormones or have reassignment surgery. don’t think a doctor should be able to refuse care without a VERY good reason, though. Also: fuck DeSantis, people should get the hell out of Florida.
Edit: I’m being downvoted but not sure why… So is taking hormones/blockers or getting reassignment surgery not a major health and life change? One shouldn’t get advice and care from a professional when doing so?
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Your perception of them doesn’t matter. The fact is in the vast majority of cases, trans people are mentally healthier after acquiring hrt, which usually leads to being physically healthier as well.
