This Is An Election Year

And we have to throw the bums out, the majority of the people support us but gerrymandering the Republicans did to keep themselves in power. However, most of the gerrymandered districts only have around 5% advantage for the Republicans and it will all come down on to who can get out the vote.

Experts say that gender-affirming care bans amount to 'abuse.' Why won't lawmakers listen?
Despite medical professionals insisting bans on gender-affirming care for minors “amount to state-sanctioned medical neglect and emotional abuse," politicians won't relent.
The Advocate
By RYAN ADAMCZESKI
JANUARY 31 2024

A new article by doctors at the Seattle Children’s Hospital details exactly how bans on gender-affirming care for minors “amount to state-sanctioned medical neglect and emotional abuse.”

The report, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, is the latest piece of evidence demonstrating that restrictions on puberty blockers, hormones, and other care for transgender youth "deny children access to routine health care that has been shown to decrease dramatically high rates of suicide and depression."

Yet conservative state legislators are unrelenting. More than 550 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced across the U.S. in 2023, and 80 were passed into law, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Just weeks into 2024, 285 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced. The majority of the bills target transgender minors, whether they be bans on gender-affirming health care, laws mandating that they use bathrooms and school facilities contrary to their gender identity, or policies forcefully outing them to their families.

"These legislative efforts operate under the guise of protecting children," the AAP article states, and they do so in spite of all available data. The American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the World Medical Association, and the World Health Organization all agree that gender-affirming care is evidence-based and medically necessary not just for adults but minors as well.

They don't care what is good for the children they only care about what can get them elected.

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Medical research shows a higher rate of mental health problems with trans people.

Mental Health Disparities Stark for Transgender, Gender-Diverse People
— British survey found higher rates of mental health conditions, unmet needs
Med Page Today
By Kristen Monaco
February 1, 2024

Transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse people had a disproportionately high rate of self-reported mental health conditions, a British study suggested.

Among over 1.5 million survey respondents, non-binary patients who were transgender reported a long-term mental health condition most often out of 15 gender groups, with a rate of 47.21% after age adjustment (95% CI 42.86-51.60), Ruth Elizabeth Watkinson, PhD, of the University of Manchester in England, and colleagues found.

Coming in second most common in reporting a mental health condition were the 35.03% of transgender patients who self-described their gender (e.g., respondents who did not identify with the predefined choices), followed by the 32.90% of non-binary patients who preferred not to say their cisgender or transgender identity.

This was juxtaposed by only 8.80% and 11.97% of cisgender male and females reporting a mental health condition, respectively, the researchers reported in Lancet Public Healthopens in a new tab or window.

The 2015 U.S. Trans Survey found (The latest survey that we have data on.) that,

Harmful Effects on Physical and Mental Health
The findings paint a troubling picture of the impact of stigma and discrimination on the health of many transgender people. A staggering 39% of respondents experienced serious psychological distress in the month prior to completing the survey, compared with only 5% of the U.S. population. Among the starkest findings is that 40% of respondents have attempted suicide in their lifetime—nearly nine times the attempted suicide rate in the U.S. population (4.6%).

Respondents also encountered high levels of mistreatment when seeking health care. In the year prior to completing the survey, one-third (33%) of those who saw a health care provider had at least one negative experience related to being transgender, such as being verbally harassed or refused treatment because of their gender identity. Additionally, nearly one-quarter (23%) of respondents reported that they did not seek the health care they needed in the year prior to completing the survey due to fear of being mistreated as a transgender person, and 33% did not go to a health care provider when needed because they could not afford it.

Could the higher mental health issues possibly be caused by all the anti-trans legislation? Could the higher mental health issues possibly be caused by all the anti-trans rhetoric by Republicans? Could the higher mental health issues be caused by all the right-wing violence against us?