State laws targeting LGBTQ rights have a new foe: federal judges

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A record number of bills aimed at restricting the rights of LGBTQ people have become law in the past three years, but the majority of those that have faced legal challenges haven’t held up in court, according to an NBC News analysis, legal experts and the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed legal challenges against some of the laws.

Just this year, state representatives introduced 491 bills aimed at restricting LGBTQ rights, with 77 of them becoming law, according to the ACLU. The majority of bills proposed and passed focused on limiting the ability of transgender youth to receive gender-transition care and play school sports. In the past year, lawmakers in at least 16 states also introduced bills to restrict drag performances.

 

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[Yellowtail]

The article pretends that the bills are anti-LGBTQ, but in reality, as I understand, the bills are anti genital mutilation of children. 

 

If people support medically alerting children's breasts and genitalia, fine, but why can they not be honest about it?

 

[Chomper Higgot]

7 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

The article pretends that the bills are anti-LGBTQ, but in reality, as I understand, the bills are anti genital mutilation of children. 

 

If people support medically alerting children's breasts and genitalia, fine, but why can they not be honest about it?

 

Apparently Federal Judges don’t agree with you.

[Yellowtail]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Apparently Federal Judges don’t agree with you.

Why do you say that? 

[Chomper Higgot]

15 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Why do you say that? 

“but the majority of those that have faced legal challenges haven’t held up in court, ”

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4 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

The article pretends that the bills are anti-LGBTQ, but in reality, as I understand, the bills are anti genital mutilation of children. 

 

If people support medically alerting children's breasts and genitalia, fine, but why can they not be honest about it?

 

Well, you understand it wrongly. The laws stop any gender-affirming care including medication. Because when it comes to one's children who knows best? The parents & doctors or the keep-the-government-from-interfering-with-parental- decisions party otherwise known as the GOP. After all, these politicians know best. Or maybe not.

 

Suicide Risk Reduces 73% in Transgender, Nonbinary Youths with Gender-Affirming Care

https://www.hcplive.com/view/suicide-risk-reduces-73-transgender-nonbinary-youths-gender-affirming-care

 

Montana House votes to formally punish transgender lawmaker, Rep. Zooey Zephyr

Republicans, who dominate the Montana House of Representatives, have voted Wednesday to formally punish Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr.

Zephyr, who is transgender, has been blocked from speaking since last week. That's when she told supporters of a bill to ban gender-affirming care that when they bowed their heads in prayer, she hoped they would see "blood on [their] hands." She says she was alluding to studies that show that transgender health care can reduce suicidality in youth.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1172158461/montana-gop-transgender-zooey-zephyr-punishment-banned-speaking-lgbtq

 

[Yellowtail]

10 hours ago, placeholder said:

Well, you understand it wrongly. The laws stop any gender-affirming care including medication. Because when it comes to one's children who knows best? The parents & doctors or the keep-the-government-from-interfering-with-parental- decisions party otherwise known as the GOP. After all, these politicians know best. Or maybe not.

Medication that mutilates/stops the development genitalia and breasts. From your link: "Investigators evaluated the changes in mental health over the first year of receiving puberty blockers and/or gender-affirming hormones to see if they impacted depression, anxiety, and/or suicidality."

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10 hours ago, placeholder said:

 

Suicide Risk Reduces 73% in Transgender, Nonbinary Youths with Gender-Affirming Care

https://www.hcplive.com/view/suicide-risk-reduces-73-transgender-nonbinary-youths-gender-affirming-care

 

Montana House votes to formally punish transgender lawmaker, Rep. Zooey Zephyr

Republicans, who dominate the Montana House of Representatives, have voted Wednesday to formally punish Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr.

Zephyr, who is transgender, has been blocked from speaking since last week. That's when she told supporters of a bill to ban gender-affirming care that when they bowed their heads in prayer, she hoped they would see "blood on [their] hands." She says she was alluding to studies that show that transgender health care can reduce suicidality in youth.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1172158461/montana-gop-transgender-zooey-zephyr-punishment-banned-speaking-lgbtq

 

Wow, a short-term "study" of 104 kids, that's really strong.

 

Do you even read this stuff?

 

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13 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Medication that mutilates/stops the development genitalia and breasts. From your link: "Investigators evaluated the changes in mental health over the first year of receiving puberty blockers and/or gender-affirming hormones to see if they impacted depression, anxiety, and/or suicidality."

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Wow, a short-term "study" of 104 kids, that's really strong.

 

Do you even read this stuff?

 

Wow! Given claims by the right that gender affirming care increases suicide risk based on no studies this is better. What's more, there have been lots of other studies the majority of which show improvement after gender-affirming care. More rigorous work needs to be done, but until then, the presumption that this care is therapeutic outweighs the virtually no evidence from studies to the contrary offered by the right.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36950718/

[Yellowtail]

22 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Wow! Given claims by the right that gender affirming care increases suicide risk based on no studies this is better. What's more, there have been lots of other studies the majority of which show improvement after gender-affirming care. More rigorous work needs to be done, but until then, the presumption that this care is therapeutic outweighs the virtually no evidence from studies to the contrary offered by the right.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36950718/

The article pretends that the bills are anti-LGBTQ, but in reality, as I understand, the bills are anti genital mutilation of children. 

 

If people support medically alerting children's breasts and genitalia, fine, but why can they not be honest about it?

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2 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

The article pretends that the bills are anti-LGBTQ, but in reality, as I understand, the bills are anti genital mutilation of children. 

 

If people support medically alerting children's breasts and genitalia, fine, but why can they not be honest about it?

As you understand it?  How did you acquire your understanding? Telepathy? You could actually read about what these laws proscribe.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/104425

[bamnutsak]

15 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

as I understand

You are misinformed.

 

There are quite a few bills, in several different categories. Very few cover mutilation.

 

https://translegislation.com/

 

 

Parents, along with Doctors, can decide on the best treatment for their children. Persons 18 YO and up are free to make their own choices.

 

I'm sure the anti-mutilation crowd, and that is pretty small. is also equally vocal about breast augmentation and rhinoplasty for those under age 18.

 

 

Such a weird hill to choose to die on?

 

 

 

 

[Rimmer]

Bickering baiting posts removed

[Yellowtail]

8 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

You are misinformed.

 

There are quite a few bills, in several different categories. Very few cover mutilation.

 

https://translegislation.com/

 

 

Parents, along with Doctors, can decide on the best treatment for their children. Persons 18 YO and up are free to make their own choices.

 

I'm sure the anti-mutilation crowd, and that is pretty small. is also equally vocal about breast augmentation and rhinoplasty for those under age 18.

 

 

Such a weird hill to choose to die on?

 

 

 

 

What are some of them?

 

I am also against "breast augmentation and rhinoplasty for those under age 18." except in extraordinary circumstances. 

 

I doubt very much "...the anti-mutilation crowd" crowd is small. If it were, I think the pro-mutilation crowd would be honest about it, and let the people decide rather that ramming it through the courts. 

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13 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

What are some of them?

If you want to find out, all you have to do is follow the link I offered previously. Here it is again:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/104425

[Atlantis]

On 7/11/2023 at 11:00 AM, placeholder said:

If you want to find out, all you have to do is follow the link I offered previously. Here it is again:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/104425

Again, if you actually realized the world was bigger than just you and your Echo Chamber of like-minded fanatics on this website, you'd easily find out that the rest of the world is calling time on this absolute pseudo-science-cum-gender-ideology BS infesting parts of North America.

 

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19 minutes ago, Atlantis said:

Again, if you actually realized the world was bigger than just you and your Echo Chamber of like-minded fanatics on this website, you'd easily find out that the rest of the world is calling time on this absolute pseudo-science-cum-gender-ideology BS infesting parts of North America.

 

Thanks for the fact-free rant.