Doctors Who Care for Trans Kids Are Being Targeted

[Ivy]

Doctors Who Care for Trans Kids Are Being Targeted, Protested, and Harassed

 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdygz/trans-kids-gender-affirming-care-doctors

 

“Never did I think as a pediatrician that I was gonna be doing work that was controversial to this degree, to the degree that would garner personal threats.”

 

"But at one recent protest, Cathey noticed an unusual sign. It was homemade, and it wasn’t  condemning abortion. Instead, its message was: “Boys are born boys, girls are born girls.”

“Oh, so they’re picking on us for the transgender care, too,” Cathey, director of gender education for Planned Parenthood of Great Plains, recalled thinking."

 

I got my first HRT from Planned Parenthood.

I suppose this was inevitable.

I'm trying not to be paranoid, but I'm not optimistic.

 

 

[VickySGV]

Yes, sadly in some states the doctors are being attacked by those who have not been taught the developing science of the last 50 years and who have been whipped into a frenzy by the intentional malicious word phrasing of politicians and totally ignorant-by-choice people for whom The Little Golden Bible for children is the limit of their ever-to-be education.

[Carolyn Marie]

That's the Right's playbook now; threaten doctors who perform legal abortions and legal treatment of trans folk with criminal and civil penalties, and perhaps as the next step, threaten them with treating adult trans folk, too.  It's a worrisome time.  

 

Carolyn Marie 

[Guest]

I have recently approached my local Congressman who wants to ban funding for any school that provides transgirls or trans women with an opportunity to play women's sports. I also contacted my local state senator. I have friends and professional colleagues who are very worried about this. 

 

I hope I do not get banned for saying this, but our forefathers espoused the idea that there should be a separation of church and state. Some of our current conservative politicians are pushing for laws governed by the Bible. If we start basing every law on the what it says in the Bible, how are we as a nation, any better than the Taliban? 

 

There is clearly an anti-transgender movement afoot in this country. Chambersburg Pennsylvania just eliminated their protection for LGBTQ residents. What town or state will be next? Forcing a transgender child to go through an unwanted puberty is really the biggest form of child abuse I can think of. 

 

Sincerely

Katie

[KathyLauren]

Overruling a medical doctor's treatment by someone who is not a doctor is called practising medicine without a license.  Someone needs to start laying charges against these politicians.

[SaraB]

2 hours ago, Katie23 said:

 

There is clearly an anti-transgender movement afoot in this country. Chambersburg Pennsylvania just eliminated their protection for LGBTQ residents. What town or state will be next? Forcing a transgender child to go through an unwanted puberty is really the biggest form of child abuse I can think of. 

 

I couldnt agree more. Idaho saying that even gender counseling was going to be criminalized was mind blowing. If I had gotten access to such counseling when I was a teen or in college I would have skipped 14 years of a crappy marriage.

At least the Mennonite church that I am now in is directly and openly affirming. Pride colors on thier door step flag every day(to the point of some vandalism). Not all are, but some are. I was raised to the traditional missionary parent's baptist doctrination and it really wasn't as against LGBT as the crowd momentum thinks it is. The youtube chanel "Trans and Christian" was interesting to reconcile the two if only we could gain some traction.