Ed Diehl is a state representative for Oregon and he has had enough of Oregon Democrats pretending to ‘help’ people and the policies they put in place end up helping nobody.
A perfect example is Oregon legalized certain small amounts of ALL drugs and it has turned the city of Portland into a zombie land.It was supposed to ‘help’ the community but it has literally made Portland just about unlivable.
Well, Diehl says the Democrats are making those ‘helping’ policies again. He produced a Twitter thread that lays out EXACTLY what Democrats are doing in regards to detransitioners and it is a DOOZY. A detransitioner is a person who underwent certain treatments to become a different sex but realized it was not right for them and they are trying to go back to their original sex.
🧵 If detransition is real, the whole "gender identity" house of cards collapses.
I received confirmation this week from Legislative Legal Council that House Bill 2002-A specifically EXCLUDES DETRANSITION TREATMENTS from insurance coverage. https://t.co/dWvywKywOO
— Real Diehl (@Real_EdDiehl) April 17, 2023
If you watch that clip it is a little boring, BUT it gives a lot of insight into how blinded the Left is by gender ideology.
With this bill, Medicaid and private insurance are mandated to cover treatments when your "gender identity" and sex don't align. But, if you believe you have made a mistake and want a procedure to align with your sex, coverage will not be mandated.
— Real Diehl (@Real_EdDiehl) April 17, 2023
WOW. So the Left is all in on switching your gender but not going back to your original gender. How does that even make sense?
We know we are harming some children and young adults with these treatments; shouldn't we offer them the opportunity to correct the mistakes made by the medical professionals?
The best studies we have today show 7% to 30% of people who have transitioned will detransition
— Real Diehl (@Real_EdDiehl) April 17, 2023
That is not a right-wing talking point. There is more than enough proof to show that some children have been HURT by what the Left calls gender-affirming care.
Oregon Democrats seem to think helping reverse those hurt by transition is not a good thing. Why would they think that? Don’t they say ‘If we can help only one child’ it will be worth it on all things like gun control, etc, but detransitioning is where they draw the line? Why would that be?
within about 10 years. This is enough for the UK, Sweden, Norway, and several other European countries to put the brakes on "gender-affirming treatment" and limit it to clinical settings or ban it outright for minors.
In Oregon, however, we are full steam ahead,
— Real Diehl (@Real_EdDiehl) April 17, 2023
ignoring these evidence-based studies and the European response. We are expanding access. We are told that gender identity is immutable; it simply 'is', without the choice or possibility of change. It is based upon one's internal sense of self.
— Real Diehl (@Real_EdDiehl) April 17, 2023
Those are facts. Many other countries are seeing the issues and changing course on gender transition too early.
We are not suggesting because one place does it the whole world should do it, but we are told by the Left how great those countries are for healthcare and other issues so why do they not want to follow the lead on this one particular issue? The answer is that they do not care about people, they care about their far Left lobby and that is it.
And the professionals know exactly how to determine if someone was "born in the wrong body", even in the case of children and adolescents.
SO HERE IS THE CRUX OF THE ISSUE: To detransition is to demonstrate that gender identity is not immutable.
— Real Diehl (@Real_EdDiehl) April 17, 2023
By including detransition treatment coverage in the bill, the true believers would be acknowledging that detransition is real, that some children and young adults are being harmed, and that the professionals can be wrong. And that is something they simply cannot admit.
— Real Diehl (@Real_EdDiehl) April 17, 2023
Way to spit facts in a Twitter thread Mr. Diehl. We salute you.
Diehl is right. There is no reason to not want to help a person detransition if you wanted to help them transition.
I would love it if some of these democrats would give a good reason why we shouldn’t help these people. The hypocrisy of the democrats knows no bounds.
— Coco 🇺🇸 (@CoClarified) April 17, 2023
There is no reason other than to protect the ideology. If they admit some people want to go back to their original gender and that the transition can cause issues then the whole idea of proving a person is really born in the wrong body falls apart.
It’s unbelievable that insurance will cover breast implants for men, but not for women.
And obviously, if they don’t cover the detransition, but will cover transition. There’s something very wrong there.
This is clearly ideological.
— Rebecca V-Devoted Reality Believer (@RebeccaAVelo) April 18, 2023
BINGO!
That’s just being mean for no reason at all. If I it’s a non issue ignore it. If it’s rare, cover it. This is to punish the apostates.
— Solveig283 (@solveig283) April 17, 2023
Sad but true. They want to punish people who do not go in lockstep with the gender army.
There is no other reason to deny the help you offered them before. They are the same people the Left said were BRAVE and we should listen to them when they wanted to transition. It is obvious they want us to ignore them when they want to reverse it.
But I thought gender was fluid?
— Energist🕊 (@iamlisakirk) April 18, 2023
She has a point. If it is fluid as the ‘Gender Army’ tells us, why can they not transition back and forth over and over?
Appalling. This is as close as it gets to smoking gun evidence that “gender affirming care” is not about healthcare but ideology first and foremost. https://t.co/kFiEDXi1X4
— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) April 18, 2023
YUP!
But they care about trans kids, guys. https://t.co/3Yy2CQMfHm
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 18, 2023
There you have it. The Left wants to say you are mean and hateful and they are the ones who ‘care’ about people, but in particular, they care about the LGBTQ+ community and you all need to sit down and shut up. We hope nobody listens and you all keep pointing out the hypocrisy!
As for Ed Diehl, we hope he keeps making these threads and scorches the Democrats on their hypocrisy at every turn.
Great job Mr. Diehl.
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