Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced proposals this month that transgender advocates say could block access to gender-affirming care provided by independent clinics and general practitioners, leaving thousands of adults scrambling for treatment and facing health risks.

They would require psychiatrists, endocrinologists and medical ethicists to have roles in creating facility-wide gender-affirming care plans for patients of all ages. Patients under 21 would have to receive at least six months of mental health counseling before starting gender-affirming medication or surgery. Providers would be barred from referring minors to treatment elsewhere, such as clinics in other states.

I am fairly pro-transgender rights with some exceptions.

If anyone has read my prior post, I have always said a psychiatrist or endocrinologist should be involved with transgender people.

The law to me is a good thing. I don’t agree with the below 21, it should be 18.

I also don’t agree with the referring clause. That is good medicine to refer people to other doctors and sometimes they are outside your state.

  • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
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    10 months ago

    But I wonder, is this legislation necessary Since liberals love the Nordic countries, this is more liberal than the Nordic model.

    Now I would like to see only the endocrinologist prescribing the hormones and the psychiatrist doing the evaluation. I have not seen the written law to see if they make that distinction.

    hormone injections that afternoon. I don’t believe it happens like that. It happens like that very often. When my friend decided to transition, she went to the clinic and was out in under an hour with hormones. PP even praised on their website you can be in and out in under an hour with hormones.

    To be clear that law doesn’t stop that for adults. They can still do that.