Posted on Feb 20, 2023
Parents raise concerns as Florida bans gender-affirming care for trans kids
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When 13-year-old Liz Bostock thinks back, she remembers feeling in-between genders as early as preschool.
Assigned male at birth, she identified as nonbinary by fifth grade and decided to use they/them pronouns. Now a seventh-grader in Gainesville, Fla., with a passion for manga and anime video games, and a bedroom filled with stuffed animals, Liz identifies as female and transgender.
"I figured out that I actually felt like a girl," she says. "Not just in-between."
Liz's birth certificate now bears her new legal name and gender marker.
After months of counseling, and with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, Liz started receiving puberty blockers last August. Every three months, she gets a shot of Lupron, a gonadotropin-releasing hormone, or GnRH, that essentially presses the "pause" button on male puberty.
The goal is to keep her body from developing further in ways that don't align with her gender identity.
When 13-year-old Liz Bostock thinks back, she remembers feeling in-between genders as early as preschool.
Assigned male at birth, she identified as nonbinary by fifth grade and decided to use they/them pronouns. Now a seventh-grader in Gainesville, Fla., with a passion for manga and anime video games, and a bedroom filled with stuffed animals, Liz identifies as female and transgender.
"I figured out that I actually felt like a girl," she says. "Not just in-between."
Liz's birth certificate now bears her new legal name and gender marker.
After months of counseling, and with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, Liz started receiving puberty blockers last August. Every three months, she gets a shot of Lupron, a gonadotropin-releasing hormone, or GnRH, that essentially presses the "pause" button on male puberty.
The goal is to keep her body from developing further in ways that don't align with her gender identity.
Parents raise concerns as Florida bans gender-affirming care for trans kids
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I think this is child abuse. Many children have been sold on the idea they are the wrong gender only regretting the carnage that was done when they grow older.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
From the article:
"Dozens of leading U.S. medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the Endocrine Society, endorse gender-affirming care as time-tested, effective, medically necessary, and potentially life-saving."
I go with the science.
"Dozens of leading U.S. medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the Endocrine Society, endorse gender-affirming care as time-tested, effective, medically necessary, and potentially life-saving."
I go with the science.
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LTC David Brown Let me put it as simple as possible so even you can understand. You are born this way.
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SGT (Join to see) - The old nature/nurture argument. Glad that science is finally settled.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."She's keeping a close eye on states that want to ban gender-affirming care not just for minors, but for adults, too. "I don't think that this is gonna slow down," she says. "I think that more and more states are going to ban, likely first for minors and then, you know, try to move on to adults. Which is why I think it's so critical that we stop them here in Florida."
It can feel "overwhelming and soul-crushing," Chriss admits, when she considers the cascade of states that want to ban gender-affirming care.
"It's hard not to feel like we're losing on a daily basis, which can be very demoralizing. It really does take a toll," she says. "All we can do is keep fighting."
..."She's keeping a close eye on states that want to ban gender-affirming care not just for minors, but for adults, too. "I don't think that this is gonna slow down," she says. "I think that more and more states are going to ban, likely first for minors and then, you know, try to move on to adults. Which is why I think it's so critical that we stop them here in Florida."
It can feel "overwhelming and soul-crushing," Chriss admits, when she considers the cascade of states that want to ban gender-affirming care.
"It's hard not to feel like we're losing on a daily basis, which can be very demoralizing. It really does take a toll," she says. "All we can do is keep fighting."
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At some point you will start to gear rumblings of the military possibly moving units over thus issue. Everyone of you know the military takes a dim view of its members being discriminated against. Of course some CG my just put a whole town off limits.
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Kids don't know what they want to be...superman, batman, astronaut, baseball player...much less try to be something they weren't born with. If yo want to be or feel you need to be transgender, ok wihen you are an adult...when you are a child you need to focus on being a child.
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