Our Bodies, Our Lives.

I can never figure out why conservatives hate us, what difference does it make to them, why do that have to butt into our lives?

I don’t know if you saw the video of an NBC weather reporter, but this who was driving by stops and gets out of his pickup truck and run to the reporters. He then attacks the reporter… why did he hate a news reporter so much that he stopped his truck and attack him?

People seem so much more confrontational, they feel that they have a right to interfere in our lives and our healthcare.

Gender-affirming care improves mental health for transgender youth
Laws restricting this treatment may harm an already vulnerable community, researchers say
Science News
By Maria Temming
August 26, 2021


Daniel’s birth certificate is marked “female,” but Daniel is nonbinary — not exclusively male nor female. “I’m masculine leaning,” says the 18-year-old.

The disconnect between Daniel’s gender identity and physical appearance, which was apparent to them around age 4, became unbearable during puberty. “I hated showers because I didn’t like looking at my body,” Daniel says. “I just felt really uncomfortable with the idea of being female.” At 13, Daniel came out to their mother as transgender, someone whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth.

About a month after coming out, Daniel started seeing a therapist who specialized in gender identity. A year later they were referred to an endocrinologist, who prescribed the sex hormone testosterone. For Daniel, the most important effect was a deeper voice. “My biggest problem with getting misgendered was that my voice was really high,” Daniel says.

Before starting hormone therapy, Daniel considered suicide. With masculinizing hormones, they say they’re happier with life. “I definitely feel more like myself. Like I was just existing before, but now I’m living, now that I’m open to everyone about who I am, and most importantly I’m open to myself,” says Daniel, whose last name is being withheld for medical privacy. “Starting testosterone, for me, saved my life.”

These buttinskies are causing death, they are inferring in our lives overriding proven medical science. Research shows that having medical intervention reduces suicidal idealizations!

Republican (Get the government off my back) states have been in a competition in who can pass the most draconian legislation.

“Even if the bills don’t pass, even if they die in committee, the damage is being done,” says Jason Klein, a pediatric endocrinologist at NYU Langone Health in New York City. “Many people across this country are already going to be hurt just by the ideas being put out by these bills.”
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Gender-affirming health care could improve those alarming statistics across age groups, says Jack Turban, a child and adolescent psychiatry researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine. “All existing research suggests that gender-affirming medical interventions improve the mental health of transgender youth.”

Get off our backs, get out of our lives.

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Down in Texas they have introduced a horrible bill aimed at us.

The Texas Assault on Transgender Rights
An interview with Adri Perez, policy and advocacy strategist with the Texas ACLU.
Washington Monthly
By Gregory Svirnovskiy
August 20, 2021


For just a moment in late May, Texas ACLU advocate Adri Perez felt able to breathe.

A Republican-dominated state legislature had introduced about 30 anti-transgender bills. One bill limited trans participation in youth sports. Another classified as “child abuse” gender-affirming surgeries for young people. But the legislative session ended with none of these bills passed.

Then Republican Governor Gregg Abbott called the legislators back for a special session in July. Dozens of anti-trans bills were reintroduced. Then Abbott called a second special session in August that’s still underway.

In July and then again in August, The Washington Monthly’s Gregory Svirnovskiy discussed with Perez this legislative assault on transgender rights in the Lone Star state. The conversation has been edited and shortened for clarity.

The politicization of trans rights first entered the public consciousness 2016 in North Carolina, and then in Texas, with bills prohibiting trans people from using the bathroom that aligned with their gender identity. Were you surprised when such proposals hit the docket?

At the time, it did surprise me that anybody would be concerned with where I went to the bathroom or where transgender youth and adults went to the bathroom. But it was concerning that was the focus of state and national discourse.

They are so spiteful that they put of much needed legislation just to attack us.

In 2019, after a pretty punishing midterm election, Republicans worked with Democrats on education and public policy. They’ve since moved back, proposing a number of ultra-conservative anti-LGBTQ bills. Can you explain any rational calculus?

The rational calculus?

Sure, or I mean, you know, the irrational calculus.

There are several other things that Texas Republicans should be focused on, like our electric grid. [In July,] in parts of central and east Texas, their electricity was flickering for no reason. It failed in February and resulted in about 700 deaths. [Gov.] Greg Abbott did not fix the electric grid. [Lt. Gov.] Dan Patrick did not fix the electric grid. We are still recovering from a COVID-19 pandemic where Texas has one of the lowest rates of vaccinations and health care coverage in the country. And we are seeing the numbers for a potential fourth wave of COVID-19 in the state of Texas where infections are rising and predominantly in rural counties in Texas.

They use us for the old magicians sleight of hand to distract us from the real problems “Look, look over here at these trans people!” while they ignore the real problems. The conservatives say that we have an agenda and I say yes we do. It is to get government off our backs, out of our doctor's office, and out of our lives.