Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Their Mouths.

The Republicans are very good t that!

There is a Gender Confirming Surgery (GCS) that the Republicans endorse. They endorse it wholeheartedly, as a matter of fact in many of the anti-trans laws that the Republicans have allow is GCS on intersex babies just days old!

Amid transgender care bans, exceptions made for surgery on intersex children

Intersex people don't fit into the traditional male and female binary.

ABC News

By Kiara Alfonseca and Mary Kekatos

July 18, 2023

When Sean Saifa Wall was 13, a doctor recommended to his mother that Wall's male-typical genitals be removed and that he begin feminizing hormone therapy.

He says his late mother agreed to the surgery and treatment, but Wall adds that his mother picked the wrong gender for him.

"Receiving my medical records and really learning about what happened to me without my thorough informed consent, I think, made me really angry," Wall, who is now 44, told ABC News.

Wall was born intersex, which encompasses a group of people with genitals, chromosomes, hormones or reproductive organs that are neither clearly male nor female at birth.

Born with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome, or AIS, he had atypical reproductive organs and, like many intersex people, had surgery performed to assign him to one gender over the other without, he says, his consent.

How many times have you heard the Republicans say that children should be allow to transition until they are old enough to decide but at the same time they approve GCS on just days old babies!

Surgeries on intersex children have been condemned by the United Nations, the Human Rights Campaign and intersex activists around the world. However, in the U.S., the federal government has left it up to individual states to create their own laws on gender-affirming care.

Some doctors have defended these surgeries as being an option that should be made available to children and patients. But many intersex patients and advocates say these procedures are medically risky.

Here in Connecticut a bill to ban surgeries on intersex babies was introduced a couple of years back and I testified in favor of the bill but it didn’t make out of committee, the doctors and the Republicans were against the bill!

"The history of surgery to 'fix' intersex children and to normalize their sex organs is a very contentious one," Dr. Ilene Wong, a urologist at MidLantic Urology in Pennsylvania, told ABC News. "And most devastatingly is when kids are assigned or switch to a gender that [parents] think is conforming to their chromosomes, when, in fact, later on they have a vastly different gender identity."

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Human Rights Watch wrote…

US: Harmful Surgery on Intersex Children

Medically Unnecessary Operations Risk Lifelong Suffering

July 25, 2017

Doctors in the United States continue to perform medically unnecessary surgeries that can inflict permanent harm on intersex children, Human Rights Watch and interACT said in a report released today. Despite decades of controversy over the procedures, doctors operate on children’s gonads, internal sex organs, and genitals when they are too young to participate in the decision, even though the surgeries could be safely deferred.

The 160-page report, “‘I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me’: Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US,” examines the physical and psychological damage caused by medically unnecessary surgery on intersex people, who are born with chromosomes, gonads, sex organs, or genitalia that differ from those seen as socially typical for boys and girls. The report examines the controversy over the operations inside the medical community, and the pressure on parents to opt for surgery.

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“The devastation caused by medically unnecessary surgery on intersex infants is both physical and psychological,” said Kimberly Zieselman, an intersex woman and executive director of interACT. “Despite decades of patient advocates putting the medical community on notice about the harm from these procedures, many doctors continue to present these surgeries to parents as good options.”

I have a couple of acquaintances who are intersex and one has been through a half a dozen surgeries that just made it worst and worst.

Google Bard said to the question: “What percentage of intersex surgeries do they get the gender wrong?”

There is no definitive answer to this question, as there is no comprehensive data on the number of intersex surgeries performed each year, or the percentage of those surgeries that are later found to have been performed on the wrong gender. However, a number of studies have suggested that the percentage of intersex surgeries that are later found to be incorrect is significant.

For example, a 2017 study by the Human Rights Watch found that up to 60% of intersex children who undergo surgery to "normalize" their genitals later identify with a gender that is different from the one they were assigned at birth. Additionally, a 2019 study by the Intersex Society of North America found that 41% of intersex adults who had undergone surgery as children reported feeling that the surgery had been "wrong" for them.

Reuters reported…

In October, Dutch researchers reported results of what they billed as the largest study to date of continuation of care among transgender youths. In a review of prescription drug records, they found that 704, or 98%, of 720 adolescents who started on puberty blockers before taking hormones had continued with treatment after four years on average. The researchers couldn’t tell from the records why the 16 had discontinued treatment.

And the here the Republicans are complaining that trans children have regret for around 

In a 2005 article in Science Daily it said,

Another AAAS speaker, William G. Reiner, M.D., agreed. "The most important sex organ is the brain," said Reiner, a psychiatrist and associate professor in the Department of Urology, Oklahoma University Health Science Center. "We have to let these children tell us their gender at the appropriate time."

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Business Friendly Part 2

Last week I wrote about how the Republican party branded itself as being "Business Friendly" but now DeSantis wants to do this and it is not very business friendly,

Ron DeSantis Threatens Bud Light’s Parent Company With Legal Action

The “anti-woke” governor is targeting the beer brand’s parent company, suggesting it “breached legal duties” by using transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney for marketing purposes.

The Daily Beast

By William Vaillancourt

July 20, 2023

The conservative backlash against Bud Light still isn’t over, as self-described “anti-woke” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday explained on Fox News how he’s open to having legal action be taken against its parent company.

DeSantis’ appearance on Jesse Watters Primetime coincided with a letter written by the 2024 presidential candidate, obtained by CNN, that suggests AB InBev “breached legal duties owed to its shareholders” by becoming involved with “radical social ideologies.” Bud Light used transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney to help market its product, after which sales dropped thanks in part to musician Kid Rock and others leading calls for a boycott.

According to DeSantis, the losses that Florida’s pension fund saw after the partnership may be actionable. According to CNN, the pension fund held AB InBev shares valuing $46 million in March this year. Its price has dropped from $66 per share to $58, though the outlet notes it is still higher than its $44 low in Sept 2022. DeSantis, along with the state’s attorney general and chief financial officer–both of which are also Republicans– are trustees of the State Board of Administration, which handles public workers’ retirement funds.

And that is not all, another politician has to put in his two cents.

His latest act comes not long after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) demanded that the Beer Institute investigate Bud Light’s short-lived partnership with Mulvaney—one which the senator claimed also “warrants detailed oversight by Congress.”

I am amazed at how the Republicans are like a feeding frenzy of sharks, they think that they smell blood and go into attack mode. Anything LGBTQ+ is a target for them. 

Now it is businesses they are threaten legal action for normal business decisions. So much for being “Business Friendly.”

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Speaking of "Business Friendly"...

Crossed Off My List

Up on the Cape I have been going to a sandwich shop for a number of years, the owner treated me good and we had a good rapport, or so I thought. And he always called me by my first name.

Then this week there were three or four men from a landscaping company there getting their lunches before me and were waiting around for their order. And the owner was bantering with them.

I walk in and the owner says “What can I get you sir?” WTF!

I was too shocked but to do anything but place my order and after I paid he said “Thank you sir.”

The men pick up their order and left.

After they left the owner started small talk with me and called me “Diana” again.

WTF… he is rude to me in front of others and then he acts like nothing happened… Goodbye. You lost a customer who’s been coming to you for years. There are other sandwich shops around and I’ll find another who are not “Fair weather friends.”