It Is Hurting Our Young.

All of these bills are hurting our young children, we are the low hanging fruit that the conservatives are attacking.

Anti-transgender legislation hurts children: Emilia Lombardi
Cleveland.com
April 26, 2020

House Bill 513, the anti-transgender bill being introduced into the Ohio Legislature, is part of larger action around the country to marginalize transgender people.

The bill will deny evidence-based care for anyone younger than 18 and punish healthcare providers who offer it with the loss of their license and imprisonment for up to five years.

The care being provided to transgender and nonconforming youth has a long history of scientific evidence of its effectiveness, is supported by many mainstream medical organizations and is being misrepresented by the bill and its supporters.
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HB 513 and related bills do not protect children or adolescents, but instead put them in harm’s way. Such legislation represents another attempt to legislate transgender people out of existence.

Numerous studies have found transgender and gender-nonconforming youth to be at a great risk for depression, isolation and even suicide. These outcomes are due to the discrimination and prejudice they experience from others and, too often, their own family members.

The Republicans, lets face it only Republicans who are introducing these bills, they don’t care if these bill cause harm and increase suicides among trans youth all they care about are votes and donations.

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And it is not only here in the U.S. that the conservatives are attacking us but it is global.

Health minister rejects call for a ‘national inquiry’ into transgender healthcare despite the best efforts of the fierce anti-trans lobby
Australian health minister Greg Hunt has rejected calls from the anti-trans lobby for a national inquiry into healthcare for transgender children.
Pink News UK
By Vic Parsons
April 21, 2020

The senior government MP said that a national inquiry could further harm an already vulnerable group, and instead said that he would be looking at ways of improving existing healthcare for trans kids in Australia.

“It is important we have a nationally consistent standard of care that is evidence-based and with appropriate safeguards to protect the interests of the patient,” Hunt told The Sunday Age.

“In recognition of the risks of further harm to young people, the government does not intend to establish a national inquiry on this matter.”

Not only did he stand up to the conservatives but he also said…

Hunt, who received expert advice from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) last month about the clinical treatment of children with gender dysphoria, added that he would now look into establishing a national framework for gender services and will potentially be funding more scientific research into gender dysphoria.

For those who say that they vote conservative because they want smaller government they are the enablers. The are just as bad as those who hate us.

Just last week the Republicans announced,

Trump team moves to scrap protections for LGBTQ patients
The health department's top civil rights official also defended the administration's approach to vulnerable populations.
Politico
By Dan Diamond
April 24, 2020

The Trump administration is moving to scrap an Obama-era policy that protected LGBTQ patients from discrimination, alarming health experts who warn that the regulatory rollback could harm vulnerable people during a pandemic.

The health department is close to finalizing its long-developing rewrite of Obamacare’s Section 1557 provision, which barred health care discrimination based on sex and gender identity. The administration’s final rule on Thursday was circulated at DOJ, a step toward publicly releasing the regulation in the coming days, said two people with knowledge of the pending rule. The White House on Friday morning also updated a regulatory dashboard to indicate that the rule was under review. Advocates fear that it would allow hospitals and health workers to more easily discriminate against patients based on their gender or sexual orientation.

Those who vote Republican are guilty of stripping health insurance from us in the middle of this pandemic. They are guilty of trying to make us criminals when we use a bathroom. They are guilty of the deaths of trans children when they are denied trans youth from transitioning.