Agree or disagree . . . This passage offers a glimpse of both sides even if TKC DOESN'T BUY the contention that youngsters who can't get big pharma products will be "forced" to chose option 86.
Still . . . We think the most important part of this discussion is COMPASSION FOR FAMILIES confronting this drama that is ALWAYS made worse by politics.
Here's the word . . .
“In the coming weeks, Marshall said, he’d be introducing a Senate bill that would try to prevent gender-affirming care by going after doctors, nurses and mental health professionals who provide it with fines up to $100,000. It is just one pillar of Marshall’s sweeping agenda to restrict the rights of transgender Americans, specifically transgender youth.”
Purely from a viewpoint of national impact, this makes no sense as a priority. A 2022 report from the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, estimated that among Americans age 13 and older, there are only 1.6 million transgender people, representing 0.6% of that population. The estimate for the 13- to 17-year-olds targeted by the legislation is 300,000. For various reasons, not all of those 300,000 will seek gender-affirming care. Thus, we have a proposed Senate bill attacking the rights of well under 300,000 people, among a U.S. population of nearly 350 million.
These attacks target kids whose existence isn’t threatening or hurting anybody. Contrast this with climate change, which impacts all of us, or violence against women, which impacts many millions of Americans every year.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Roger Marshall wants the government, not families, to make choices for trans youths | Opinion
The Kansas senator is a physician. Decisions about care should be made by medical professionals who know the patient, not elected officials.
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