I've written a lot about supposed trans kids, and I usually use the term "gender-affirming care" in quotations like I did just there. It's like calling abortion "women's health care." It's not health care. A fetus is not a cancerous tumor. How is removing perfectly healthy breast tissue health care?
But I'm not sure what to use in place of gender-affirming care. There's so much ground to cover: puberty blockers, hormones, mastectomies, sex-change operations. Even calling it genital mutilation or sterilization doesn't cover the whole of it.
Axios reported Wednesday that it looked like the Supreme Court was going to uphold Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
BREAKING: Supreme Court seems likely to uphold ban on gender-affirming carehttps://t.co/Qt3xCizsbP
— Axios (@axios) December 4, 2024
That's good news, but Mollie Hemingway wants media outlets to stop using the term gender-affirming care.
Any media outlet that will use the deranged and evil propaganda term "gender affirming care" to describe the genital mutilation and sterilization of children is dangerously wrong and to be shunned.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 4, 2024
"Gender affirming care" is a vile, evil, dangerous propaganda term. It is a euphemism to describe the genital mutilation and sterilization of children. NO ONE -- NO ONE -- should use it. It's awful. Don't use horrific euphemisms in defense of harming children. Ever.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 4, 2024
Exactly. "Gender-affirming care" is a dangerous euphemism to cover up the abuse of children. We shouldn’t be sugarcoating child mutilation—>>it’s wrong, and it needs to stop.
— MAG🔫1775🇺🇸 (@Mar50cC5O) December 4, 2024
First and foremost, it’s not care at all. It’s medical malpractice.
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) December 4, 2024
Absolutely 💯 agree
— RJWIAH (@Rjwcyc66) December 4, 2024
Gender affirming care is the worst oxymoron ever.
— IAHEAGLE (@SRSanders2) December 4, 2024
It’s an evil misnomer meant to drive confusion, typical of the left’s desire to twist and shift language to their will & purposes. What is touted as gender affirmation is, in fact, the exact opposite.
— Rochelle Wentz (@rochellewentz) December 4, 2024
Exactly correct. It is horrific, inexcusable child abuse. It should be a felony and those engaged in it should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
— Gary P. Nabhan (@GaryPNabhan) December 4, 2024
I don't want Twitchy to be shunned … I just don't know what term to use to cover all of the horrific things that are done in the name of "health care."
Speaking of, Christopher Rufo even puts "trans kids" in quotation marks. He's got a point.
The Left is desperate to create new categories of oppression, which has culminated in "trans kids"—a purely ideological phenomenon that is justified post hoc through fake "medical necessity." They desperately want to create a new "oppressed," even if it means butchering kids.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 4, 2024
He nails it with fake medical necessity. They already tried, and failed, to argue that children who don't get this "medical care" are more likely to commit suicide, which they use as an ultimatum: block my puberty or I'll kill myself.
"Gender-affirming care" looks like it's going to stick. I wish I could think of a better term to cover all of the horrific things they do to minors who think (or are convinced) they were born into the wrong body.
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