jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months agoNew poll finds strong majority opposes gender-affirming care bans for trans minorswww.lgbtqnation.comexternal-linkmessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1378arrow-down126
arrow-up1352arrow-down1external-linkNew poll finds strong majority opposes gender-affirming care bans for trans minorswww.lgbtqnation.comjeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square117fedilink
minus-squareAksamit@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down5·5 months agoMinors aren’t getting any surgeries. Gender affirming care for trans kids involves seeing psychiatrists, social transitioning, and, if they’re lucky, puberty blockers till they’re old enough to decide whether they want to medically and surgically transition.
minus-squareMatch!!@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·5 months agoMinors are gettin surgery if they’re intersex at birth, in the US especially they get surgically assigned a binary sex even though it is no longer recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and actively opposed by the UN.
minus-squaredie444die@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoAnd that’s a completely different issue that’s totally separate from the anti trans laws being pushed by the right wing today.
minus-squareAlexWIWA@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·5 months agoI am aware. I wasn’t in the survey
Minors aren’t getting any surgeries.
Gender affirming care for trans kids involves seeing psychiatrists, social transitioning, and, if they’re lucky, puberty blockers till they’re old enough to decide whether they want to medically and surgically transition.
Minors are gettin surgery if they’re intersex at birth, in the US especially they get surgically assigned a binary sex even though it is no longer recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and actively opposed by the UN.
And that’s a completely different issue that’s totally separate from the anti trans laws being pushed by the right wing today.
I am aware. I wasn’t in the survey