Chase Strangio is in battle gear.
Did Tennessee ban care for trans adolescents though? Did it pass a law saying trans adolescents can’t have health care?
The ACLU press release is more precise than Strangio on Twitter.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Tennessee, and Lambda Legal are promising the transgender youth of Tennessee they will bring immediate legal action against proposed restrictions on their health care currently being considered by the state legislature.
SB 1 and HB 1 would ban the only evidence-based care for gender dysphoria for transgender people under 18. State senate committees have thus far ignored the warnings of transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers about the potential harms of these bills, and similar restrictions in Alabama and Arkansas have been enjoined by federal courts.
There we go. So it’s not health care in general, or health care for adolescents in general, it’s “health care” for gender dysphoria…so presumably puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones and/or surgeries.
The problem of course is that these are drastic measures, and some people who have taken such drastic measures now regret it. This isn’t straightforward medical treatment, it’s attempts to change the body to make it match the opposite sex. There are side effects.
There are also effects to not taking these measures, but it’s not simply a fact that the drastic measures fix everyone and do no harm and never end up with bitter regrets. They don’t fix everyone, they do harm at least some people, and they do end up with regrets in some cases.
But the ACLU is aboard the trans train and making it go faster and faster. Too late to jump off now.
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“SB 1 and HB 1 would ban the only evidence-based care for gender dysphoria for transgender people under 18.”
So the bills are going to ban waiting until the kids grow up and get over it?
They’re calling “gender-affirming care” evidence-based. That’s a porker right there.
It’s almost as if Strange Chasio is trying to prove TMAM by being as much of a woman-hating creep as any man.
If this does go to court it could get interesting. If the State is taking the issue really seriously, has sought good medical advice, and has their ducks in a row, then the ACLU and trans groups could find themselves on the back foot in discovery. Oh you say it’s evidence based care. please provide a copy of all evidence your standard of care is based on….
On the other hand, if the State has acted out of nothing more than shallow malice on a performative basis, well, it won’t go well for them.
Moustache wax and a codpiece?
Well, we have seen how well the gender lobby tends to perform when they actually have to make their case, and even start answering some probing questions, rather than shout down their opponents…
The news on Facebook just now is that it passed.
Wax thy moustache, fit thine codpiece, and gird thine loins, Strangio!
(I have literally no idea when to use thy or thine, as thou canst tell!)
@Tigger:
“Thy” and “thine” are analogous to “my” and “mine.”
This is my bagel and that is thy bagel.
This bagel is mine and that bagel is thine.
However, there’s the additional twist that “thine” replaces “thy” before a vowel.
This is thy bagel and that is thine omelet.
. . . I’m going to go get some breakfast.
Thank you! And enjoy thy breakfast!
Which is how “mine” used to be used (think of “Mine eyes have seen the glory…”, though that was probably already an archaism). Same way we use “a” and “an” these days. (Also, to be pedantic, it’s before a vowel sound, not an orthographic vowel. That’s why we say “a university” but “an honor”.)
I wonder if that’s how naranja became orange? My naranja – my narange – my norange – mine orange – my orange?
Sort of, except it happened in Italian.
I love this place. We start off with a couple of tweets from someone who is doing little more than posturing to her little crowd of followers, and dive off into something much more interesting – etymology – and don’t get kicked off for de-railing.
tigger, derailing is common around here! I love it…the stream of consciousness nature of this blog is refreshing and leads to productive discussions. And at least we don’t spill vinyl chloride into the Ohio River (or any river) when we derail, right?
Right!
That accident is horrific. People and nature are going to be suffering the consequences for a very long time.
There are rails?
YNnB, you’ve seen pictures of rails after an earthquake, right?
Rob@4: My big concern is just that, actually–that the state, who yes, are motivated solely out of malice and performative cruelty, will botch this completely. Hopefully, the state’s attorney will be more on the ball than the lawmakers, or this will be a farce that actually hurts any legitimate GC efforts.
Or, there’s this: