Always call it “gender-affirming care”
Ohio’s Republican governor has vetoed legislation that would have barred transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care, he said Friday. Signing the bill would “be saying that the state, the government” knows what’s better for youth than their parents, Gov. Mike DeWine said.
So there should be no laws against beating children, or torturing them, or locking them up in a dark cold basement room, or putting them to work in factories at age 5. Parents always know better, so there should be no child protection laws or institutions at all.
Also, it makes a difference what you call it. “Gender-affirming” makes it sound wholesome and nice. Non-medical genital mutilation and mastectomy don’t sound quite so nice.
The legislation would have prohibited gender-affirming care for trans and nonbinary youth, including hormone blockers, hormone replacement therapy, medical or surgical procedures and some mental health services.
That’s because hormone blockers, hormone replacement therapy, medical and surgical procedures are very drastic things to do to children and teenagers, and they’re done in service to a comparatively new and fanciful ideology that claims physical sex is changeable.
The bill also sought to prohibit
transgender[male] athletes from taking part in female sports.
Because it’s not fair to females. Apparently the governor of Ohio doesn’t care about that.
I always wonder where this crowd comes down on FGM. If a girl wants the procedure because of her cultural/religious identity, isn’t it her right? And yet the procedure is banned here in the US, and I don’t see the TRA crowd fighting to make it legal.
Perhaps it’s the branding–if it were called “religion-affirming care” the diversity folk would be clamoring to legalize it.
There are people who do claim it’s a right. Some of the people at Freethought blogs who pitched fits about my terfism added my “Islamophobia” to the mix.
I knew about the accusations of “Islamophobia”, but I never thought that was about opposition to FGM. I always thought that as a group they were opposed. If I’m wrong about that (even if it was only a few), I have even less respect for them.
I’m using the phrase “sex trait modification” (and “pediatric sex trait modification”) instead of “gender affirming care.” It’s accurate and fairly neutral, tho it will of course still be seen as phobic.
“Islamophobia”, ha… As of there’s something in Islam that requires cutting up little girls (it’s sufficiently awful in of itself). That it’s generally a type of Muslim that likes that sort of thing is true, but that sort of barbarism is pre-Islamic it’s just that the local clerics don’t give a fuck.