So now hospitals are being ordered to tamper with minors’ puberties.
The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered Colorado’s largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy despite threats that providing the care could lead to losing federal funding.
Puberty blockers are not medical treatments! Neither is “hormone therapy” if that means giving “young people” aka minors opposite-sex hormones in order to make them look more like the opposite sex.
Such interventions may be psychological treatments in some sense – they may make the recipients feel more content or “validated” or similar. They may also or instead make them feel worse. But either way they’re not medical. Thinking you’re the other sex isn’t a medical issue.
Children’s Hospital Colorado suspended medical treatments for transgender patients under 18 in January after it said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services opened an investigation into its treatments following a series of clashes between President Donald Trump’s administration and advocates over transgender health care for children.
But you see this is the problem – there’s no such thing as “transgender health care.” Trying to change people’s sex is not health care. It’s tampering.
It may make some people happier. It may be justifiable for that reason. But it’s still not health care, let alone medical care. You kind of have to bite that bullet.
Four transgender girls, ranging from age 10 to 17, sued the hospital, through their parents, alleging that the hospital was violating the state’s antidiscrimination law by refusing to provide them treatment both because of their gender identity and their disability, gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is the distress caused when someone’s gender expression doesn’t match their sex assigned at birth.
They say that so solemnly, as if it’s true and well established as true.
People can have all kinds of distress about various things about themselves; that doesn’t mean distress about the self is a medical issue.
The girls said they feared not being able to get medication and monitoring to prevent them from undergoing puberty and developing male traits. And they cited mental health fallout, including depression and suicidal ideation.
They’re not girls though. You said so yourself: they’re “transgender girls”. Also, think about the mental health fallout of tampering with people’s puberties when the people later regret the whole thing.
It’s infuriating to see how entrenched this bullshit has become.
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