More than 20 percent of trans youth lost access to gender-affirming care under new state laws (msn.com)
This is going to go so well. /s
Roughly 75000 transgender kids lost access to previously provided care. The Trevor project estimated roughly 45% of transgender youth attempted suicide last year. Yes, talk is going to get us out of this.
BTW, I have been working with a family with a transgender child in Utah. For several years, this child has stated they are a boy. By every anatomical study, including ultrasounds and puberty, they are female. They have been ridiculed and criticized. As you can imagine, this child has attempted suicide several times in the past. Just a week ago, they got the results of a whole genome sequence study. Turns out he is XY.
For all the deniers out there, I want you to wrap your brain around that one. An anatomical female with XY chromosomes. This child has a menstraul cycle and has ovaries, in other words, he can get pregnant. I helped analyze the genome and I have a perfectly logical medical explanation by the way. But go ahead and try, I would love to see some people's brain cells explode a little trying to work this one out.
This family got all the sham stupid answers. "Oh, he's watching Tik Tok too much." "His friends are doing it, therefore, he has to as well." "Counseling will fix this" "He will grow out of it" "You guys are woke" "The Bible says otherwise"
I told this child's mom, you are welcome to rub the results of this study in as many faces as you feel it necessary, because this is the exact reason why gender affirming care exists. This child was not, and clearly not, intersex at birth. However, their genetics clearly scream otherwise. Guess what, there are a lot more kids like this than we think. So, how many more kids do we feel like losing before people's minds are changed?
By the way, the crisis is already starting and it isn't even a month out. Medical and mental health professionals have already changed their practices. Insurance companies are also denying coverage for gender affirming health care.
Lisa Hansen: Mental health professionals see the danger in Utah’s anti-transgender law (sltrib.com)