Monday, July 18, 2022

US: Republicans have a national bill to prevent kids from asserting their own gender

Fascists do this because they are upset by "the agility of the future".

Even though:

See "Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition" (Pediatrics, July 13, 2022). They examined 317 children, at an average age of 8, who identified as transgender at the beginning of the study. "We found," the authors write, "that an average of 5 years after their initial social transition, most "identified as binary transgender youth (94%)...and 3.5% as nonbinary." Only 2.5% "identified as cisgender."


Update: California is a sanctuary state for trans kids. This law took effect Jan. 1, 2023. SENATOR WIENER’S HISTORIC BILL TO PROVIDE REFUGE FOR TRANS KIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES SIGNED INTO LAW

However: "A newly formed group is petitioning to put an anti-transgender measure on the 2024 California ballot. The so-called Protect Kids of California Act of 2024 would ban gender-affirming care for minors, require school faculty to out students to parents, and repeal pre-existing protections for trans students." (Parents in California Are Petitioning to Get an Anti-Trans Initiative On the Ballot, James Factora, them, December 11, 2023)

Update: Maine may become a refuge state too. On January 15, 2024, there was a hearing on a bill "to ensure that transgender individuals and their families, who seek safety and medical care in the state, are not compelled to return to their home states by extremist attorneys general, possibly under the threat of arrest. It would also make arresting the parents of trans youth pursuant to out of state warrants the 'lowest law enforcement priority.'" Furthermore, Erin Reed explains:

"Importantly, this provision does not not imply, as some conservative accounts have proclaimed, that the state will 'take away trans kids from non-affirming parents.' Rather, this provision merely gives judges temporary jurisdiction over a kid present in the state. The state would still have to prove to a judge that a transgender teen is at risk of abuse or neglect if returned to their family in the exact same way the state would have to prove similar things about a cisgender kid....this clause enables parents in Maine to present their case to a judge and argue that gender-affirming care is in the child's best interest. The bill does not require the judge to rule in favor of the parent; it merely allows the court to consider the argument."

This info may be helpful: "Mental health benefits of gender-affirming hormones for teens persist for two years in new study" (Jan 18, 2023, Stat News)


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. @assigned.bsky.social reported in depth on the fucked up Finnish model of "care" for trans youth and the doctor behind it who's consulting for red states. n.b. Evan pitched this piece to larger outlets; that none picked it up is absolutely shameful. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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— Jay Edidin (@edidin.bsky.social) Aug 1, 2024 at 10:13 AM

One big idea behind the "separate the LGB from the TQ" memes is to discourage gender nonconformity.

Regarding a picture of an NFL American football player with lots of muscles and buzzed hair captioned 'LGB' next to a picture of a person with beard stubble wearing lavender dangle earrings and a spaghetti-strap shirt exposing chest hair, Euan Yours tweets: It's actually legitimately interesting the way the right are trying to assimilate 'LGB' people into Straightness

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