They Don’t Know It Yet, But They Shot Themselves In The Foot.

All of these anti-trans laws and anti-abortion laws is having an affect on the states… it is slowly happening in ones and two but will add up in time. What I am talking about are medical schools and doctors.

The Common Wealth Fund reports that…

Data indicate that medical students may be less likely to apply for residency training in states with abortion bans. Data from the 2023 and 2024 application cycles showed an overall decrease in the number of graduating M.D. students applying to residencies, but an even greater decrease in applicants to states with abortion bans. While training slots continue to be almost entirely filled for now, the number of applicants to ob/gyn residency programs during the 2024 application year decreased 6.7 percent in states with abortion bans from the prior year. In contrast, there was a small (0.4%) increase in ob/gyn residency applicants to states that maintained legal access to abortion. Family medicine residency applicants were also less likely to apply to states with abortion bans during the 2023 application cycle. Surveys of medical students and residency applicants find that most respondents regarded abortion training, along with abortion access for themselves or a partner, as important considerations in deciding where to apply for residency.

They have a hole in their foot but it hasn’t registered yet in the brain.

Association of American Medical Colleges writes…

States’ abortion-ban status may be correlated with program number and size, but these findings suggest that applicants may be responding to something independent of program size, particularly given two years of similar patterns. In other words, while states with more severe restrictions are often less populous (and have fewer residency programs) than other states, U.S. MD applicants may be selectively reducing their likelihood of applying to programs in states with more state-imposed restrictions on health care regardless of the number of available residency programs. The relative decrease in applicants to programs in states with abortion restrictions compared with the number of applicants to programs in states where abortion remains legal was also greater in 2024 than in 2023.

USA Today reports that,

As hormone specialists, endocrinologists such as Haller can support patients receiving gender-affirming care. But as the profession comes under political pressure, Haller fears that Florida's anti-DEI law could also make it even harder for children to find a specialized doctor in the state who can treat diabetes, thyroid disease and delayed puberty, examples of other work that pediatric endocrinologists do.

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“Why would anyone want to go into this field when they are going to get attacked by their own government, and their own institutions are not necessarily going to speak up on behalf of them or their patients?” Haller said. “It's really hurting our ability to recruit the next generation.”

And it is not just the students are avoiding states with trans bans but also professors…

A recent survey of college professors in Georgia, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina found that two-thirds said they would not recommend their states as a desirable place to work for colleagues. Nearly a third were considering leaving their jobs, and some were already interviewing for positions out of state.

Nearly 60% of the would-be movers cited their state’s political climate as a reason — and over 40% mentioned issues related to DEI and tenure. The survey was conducted by several state American Association of University Professors conferences and faculty unions in Florida and Texas.

In their zeal to punish medical professionals for their “sins” in treating us or providing care for pregnant women they have their blinders on they are so focused that they don’t see what other harm they are doing to their citizens. Wait until a frantic mom is looking for a pediatric endocrinologists for a diabetic baby and told that there will be a six month wait to a see a doctor. Wait until a mother needs a specialist to treat their little boy for thyroid disease and they can’t find a doctor because they all fled to other states where they wouldn’t have government looking over their shoulders. Wait until a child with precocious puberty can’t get any medicine to treat it because the same drug is used for us.

What the Republicans don’t understand is that doctors who treat trans patients also treat cis patients also! And doctors who preform abortions also treat women for other problems! They don’t understand that medical students what a whole education not one with gaps.