The media has already made a national hero of poor Tennessee State Rep. Zooey Zephyr, who was silenced after arguing for gender-affirming care for minors and saying she hoped those who voted to ban it saw the blood on their hands every time they took the invocation. As we noted, the Associated Press was especially enamored of Zephyr, doing at least five stories on her and how her banishment “showcased the rising power of hardline conservatives” in statehouses.
Texas is working on banning “gender-affirming care” for minors, and as CBS Austin reports, medical groups say this care is vital to children’s mental health.
JUST IN: Texas has taken a major step toward banning transgender minors from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapy — care that medical groups say is vital to their mental health — after the state House gave Senate Bill 14 initial approval Friday.https://t.co/k3S12gRsEA
— CBS Austin (@cbsaustin) May 13, 2023
✍️uh✍️oh✍️ https://t.co/aWcIaEwlY0 pic.twitter.com/RC8PrjAAYT
— The List (@ListComesForAll) May 13, 2023
Alex Nguyen and William Melhado report:
Texas has taken a major step toward banning transgender minors from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapy — care that medical groups say is vital to their mental health — after the state House gave Senate Bill 14 initial approval Friday.
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Trans Texans, their families, and medical groups say transition-related care is critical to supporting the mental health of trans youth, who are already facing higher risks of depression and suicide than their cisgender peers. Getting access to these treatments, they say, is time intensive and requires multiple medical evaluations. Parents are included in decisions about what treatments, if any, are best for individual children.
“The bill in front of us today is banning health care,” said state Rep. Mary González, D-Clint, while advocating for a failed amendment that would have largely foiled the legislation. “Politics shouldn’t determine health care, period.”
How is surgically removing perfectly healthy breast tissue “health care”?
Tell us you are progressive some more CBS Austin
— 🎙️TheSaltyOne🎙️ (@TonyTheSaltyOne) May 13, 2023
Is this an opinion piece?
— Exasperated Experssions (@EExperssion) May 13, 2023
What is vital to their mental health is getting them actual mental health treatment, not giving them drugs with often irreversible consequences
— Jason Crouch (@jasoncrouch) May 13, 2023
‘Affirming’ a harmful view based on a social contagion further hurts the individual, especially when considering the use of powerful drugs such as blockers and cross gender hormones. We don’t ‘affirm’ other body distortion viewpoints like anorexia or bulemia.
— BeeLady🐝 (@miamivandynyu) May 13, 2023
“medical groups”
— Brewer (WickedBrew) (@1stBrewerUKnow) May 13, 2023
"Medical groups" = Advocacy groups no longer following the science on this issue (ie AMA, AAP, WPATH)
Noting the UK, Finland, Norway, France, and even trans-care pioneer Sweden have CEASED minor transitions
Because they ARE following the science
— The Watchdog (@TheWatchdogDBQ) May 13, 2023
Thank God. And why is your outlet so obsessed with castrating and multilating children? Feel like that’s something the public ought to be informed of before they listen to anything else you have to say.
— OHk8 (@OHKate8) May 13, 2023
Removing healthy organs from children and teenagers is wrong. Puberty is not a disease.
— Robert (@IgG1purifier) May 13, 2023
The old “do what we want or kids will kill themselves” routine.
— Josh (@bills4ever833) May 13, 2023
Nowhere are these alleged "medical groups" named. I have read, coming from a number of prominent doctors (some of them "trans"), no one should undergo genital, urinary or endocrine modification until 18, older, or they can rationally justify. Cite your source, journalist.
— Vere Absolutum (@IntelATX) May 13, 2023
— Colonel Joseph Hardin (@ColJosephHardin) May 13, 2023
You'd think the article would mention who the "medical groups" are but nope, not important.
— Completely Unfettered (@jerkstore159) May 13, 2023
What medical groups? Who is in them?
— texanconstitutionalist (@texanconstitut1) May 13, 2023
'Experts say'. You freaking hacks.
— Happy Warrior (@Consta2tion) May 13, 2023
CBS Austin has added an editor’s note before the text:
Editor’s Note: This story’s headline was edited due to the length.
For mental health support for LGBTQ youth, call the Trevor Project’s 24/7 toll-free support line at 866-488-7386. For trans peer support, call the Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860. You can also reach a trained crisis counselor through the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.
The Trevor Project and the Trans Lifeline … were those the “medical groups”?
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Related:
Insurrectionists occupy Texas State Capitol to disrupt vote on ‘gender-affirming care’ ban https://t.co/khggG9wxVk
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 3, 2023
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