{"id":7746,"date":"2022-04-27T11:42:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2022-04-27T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:42:26","slug":"the-time-to-panic-about-anti-trans-legislation-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7746","title":{"rendered":"The time to panic about anti-trans legislation is now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“In recent weeks, as Republican politicians in several states<\/a> have introduced increasingly draconian measures designed to crack down on the lives and well-being of trans teenagers”
…
“A bill in Idaho<\/a>, currently being considered by the state Senate after being passed out of the House<\/a>, perhaps goes furthest in this regard. That bill would make providing medical care to trans youths a felony, punishable with up to life in prison. It would also effectively trap families of trans children in Idaho by forbidding them to travel elsewhere for treatment.”   
…
” exas Gov. Greg Abbott directed that state\u2019s Department of Family and Protective Services to open child abuse investigations into parents<\/a> who pursue gender-affirming health care for their trans children. A judge issued an injunction against the directive being carried out, but a tweet from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton<\/a> suggested that the state will ignore the injunction and continue investigations into families of trans children.”  
…
“There is a reason every major American medical body recommends giving trans children the chance to transition. (Here\u2019s an article<\/a> from the American Medical Association\u2019s Journal of Ethics<\/em> making this argument 11 years ago.) Children first transition socially \u2014 with changes to their clothing, haircut, and name. Then, with a physician\u2019s guidance, they can block the onset of puberty in early adolescence, and finally start hormone treatment in later adolescence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This method works. We have records of trans children receiving hormone treatment\u00a0as long ago as the 1930s<\/a>. With this approach, trans kids can largely live lives that are indistinguishable from those of cis kids.”\u00a0…
“It\u2019s worth repeating some other basic facts:\u00a0Affirming trans children\u2019s genders reduces their risk of attempting suicide;<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0use of puberty blockers in trans kids is safe<\/a>; children are having bottom surgery only in\u00a0exceptionally rare cases<\/a>; and almost every element of trans health care we have was originally developed for cisgender people. (Cis children with\u00a0precocious puberty<\/a>\u00a0have been using blockers for decades!)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/22977970\/anti-trans-legislation-texas-idaho<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In recent weeks, as Republican politicians in several states have introduced increasingly draconian measures designed to crack down on the lives and well-being of trans teenagers”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“A bill in Idaho, currently being considered by the state Senate after being passed out of the House, perhaps goes furthest in this regard. That bill would make providing medical care to trans youths a felony, punishable with up to life in prison. It would also effectively trap families of trans children in Idaho by forbidding them to travel elsewhere for treatment.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

” exas Gov. Greg Abbott directed that state\u2019s Department of Family and Protective Services to open child abuse investigations into parents who pursue gender-affirming health care for their trans children. A judge issued an injunction against the directive being carried out, but a tweet from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested that the state will ignore the injunction and continue investigations into families of trans children.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“There is a reason every major American medical body recommends giving trans children the chance to transition. (Here\u2019s an article from the American Medical Association\u2019s Journal of Ethics making this argument 11 years ago.) Children first transition socially \u2014 with changes to their clothing, haircut, and name. Then, with a physician\u2019s guidance, they can block the onset of puberty in early adolescence, and finally start hormone treatment in later adolescence.
\nThis method works. We have records of trans children receiving hormone treatment as long ago as the 1930s. With this approach, trans kids can largely live lives that are indistinguishable from those of cis kids.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s worth repeating some other basic facts: Affirming trans children\u2019s genders reduces their risk of attempting suicide; the use of puberty blockers in trans kids is safe; children are having bottom surgery only in exceptionally rare cases; and almost every element of trans health care we have was originally developed for cisgender people. (Cis children with precocious puberty have been using blockers for decades!)”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[86,906,130,506,759,403],"class_list":["post-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-discrimination","tag-legislation","tag-republican","tag-republicans","tag-states","tag-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7747,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions\/7747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}