Who Can We Trust?

Definitely not the Republicans!

They are up to their usual lies about healthcare.

Misleading claims drive effort to ban transgender health care for Louisiana kids, teens

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May 29, 2023

An effort to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, which lawmakers are trying to resurrect at the State Capitol, is being fueled by a barrage of claims rebutted as dangerous and misleading by the nation’s leading medical groups and state health officials, our media partners at The Advocate report.

The legislative maneuvering on Louisiana’s proposed ban on hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgical procedures for people younger than 18 is not over, despite a Senate panel’s narrow rejection of the ban last week. Advocates for the ban continue to say that its goal is to protect children, and some conservative lawmakers are hoping to revive it on the Senate floor or in another committee, the newspaper reports.

#1 There has been no surgery for minors… they say that to create outrage against us.

#2 Hormones are not giving until the age of consent.

#3 Denying healthcare for trans people increases despair in teens and causes greater harm then proven treatment for trans children.

Effort to ban transgender health care for Louisiana youth driven by misleading claims

Efforts to pass the proposed ban are still alive despite a Senate panel’s narrow rejection of the bill last week.

The Advocate [Note: This is not the LGBTQ+ “The Advocate” but a newspaper in Lousianna] 

By James Finn

May 29, 2023

An effort to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, which lawmakers are trying to resurrect at the State Capitol, is being fueled by a barrage of claims rebutted as dangerous and misleading by the nation’s leading medical groups and state health officials.

The legislative maneuvering on Louisiana’s proposed ban on hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgical procedures for people younger than 18 is not over, despite a Senate panel’s narrow rejection of the ban last week. Advocates for the ban continue to say that its goal is to protect children, and some conservative lawmakers are hoping to revive it on the Senate floor or in another committee.

Driving the discussion is a brew of claims from conservative interest groups, Christian activists, a small group of physicians and factions of the Republican party. Doctors, psychologists and transgender Louisianans have come to the Capitol to challenge the claims, but with little effect on lawmakers’ voting choices, as evidenced by an overwhelming majority of House lawmakers voting to approve the ban earlier this month.

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At least 30 medical groups including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association endorse gender-affirming care as safe and effective. Few providers in Louisiana offer the care, and none currently perform surgeries on children enrolled in Medicaid programs, according to provider interviews and a report released in March by the Louisiana Department of Health. It’s unclear how many children receive the care who are not enrolled in those programs.

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Though estimates vary, a 2021 study by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest biomedical library, found that the real figure of transgender youth who detransition is much smaller than Faugot claimed, at about 13%. A review of 317 children across the United States and Canada by the Trans Youth Project who underwent so-called social transitions between ages of 3 and 12 found the vast majority still identified with their new gender five years later. The study, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2022, found that 2.5% of the group had reverted to identifying as the gender they were assigned at birth.

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Firment and others have also said in committee hearings that children receive gender-altering surgeries at high rates. Matt Sharp, an Atlanta-based attorney for conservative Christian advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, accused “activists and profit-driven gender clinics” of deceiving children into undergoing “unnatural, life-altering and even permanently-sterilizing” surgical procedures. 

It seems like the republicans don’t follow "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." That they seem to have no problems with twist the fakes and leaving out other facts.