They just don’t think in the long term… everything for them is now!
Hector Granados, one of two pediatric endocrinologists in El Paso, said he stopped providing gender-affirming care after it was outlawed in Texas in 2023.Texas TribuneBy Priscilla TotiyapungprasertJan. 10, 2025Granados told El Paso Matters he stopped providing gender-affirming care after Texas Senate Bill 14 passed in May 2023 because he didn’t want to risk getting his medical license revoked. He began informing parents and discharging his transgender patients prior to the law going into effect. Since then, he’s continued to see youths for other concerns.Pediatric endocrinologists treat a wide variety of hormonal conditions, including diabetes, thyroid disorders, pituitary gland disorders and growth deficiencies. Some of Granados’ youngest patients in El Paso have been preterm newborns with hypothyroidism, which, if not treated immediately, can delay growth and brain development.
Tell me what do think that is going to do not only for the trans children but to the doctors? If you are a newly minted doctors where would you go to set up a practice?
Several mothers who take their children to Granados for Type 1 diabetes told El Paso Matters they’re anxious about how this lawsuit could affect their future care — and whether they would have to travel out of town for a doctor should he be forced to stop practicing.Jennifer Oguete said her 8-year-old daughter, who began seeing Granados for hypothyroidism and now Type 1 diabetes, already travels out of town for various specialists, including a rheumatologist in Phoenix.“The lack of specialties here in El Paso – there’s not very many doctors that will see a child under the age of 12 here,” Oguete said.
There are many diseases that require puberty blockers, will every doctor who prescribes them be investigated?
“Texas is cracking down on doctors illegally prescribing dangerous ‘gender transition’ drugs to children,” Paxton said in an Oct. 30 news release. “State law forbids prescribing these interventions to minors because they have irreversible and damaging effects. Any physician found doing so will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
In their dislike for all things trans the Republicans have shot themselves in the foot!
Doctors face tough decision to leave states with abortion bansAt least 15 states have ceased nearly all abortion services in the past year.ABC NewsByNadine El-BawabJune 23, 2023Dr. Nicole Teal, a maternal fetal medicine specialist, had just finished her training in North Carolina, when she was offered a good position in the state that would have allowed her to stay closer to family.But there was one problem: North Carolina's 12-week abortion ban set to go into effect on July 1.She has chosen to move to California."Being able to provide abortion care after 20 weeks is really fundamental to my practice and comes up for me on a weekly basis," Teal told ABC News.[…]Patients often do not develop high-risk conditions until after 21 weeks of pregnancy, Teal said, so the state's current 20-week ban is already changing how she's allowed to practice medicine."It's really put me in a position of moral distress on more than one occasion," Teal said.How many doctors are going to be sticking around when the state is looking over their shoulders and questioning everything that they do?
Click, bang!
What a hang!
The 19th News writes,
As someone who specialized in complex pregnancies, Shamshirsaz frequently saw reminders of just how far-reaching the abortion ban was — and how dramatically it compromised his ability to provide needed medical care. One day, he recalls, he treated a woman who was pregnant and excited to welcome twins. But one fetus began suffering complications, and the other’s amniotic sac ruptured. There was no way she would give birth to a live baby.But at 15 weeks, she was too far in her pregnancy to have an abortion unless her life was clearly in danger. Medically, Shamshirsaz knew what the right course of action was, but legally, there was nothing he could do. He sent her home, telling her to return if she developed a fever or chills.[…]Increasingly, the availability of often vital medical care depends on where you live. The barrage of bans has created a conundrum for medical professionals: Is it worth staying somewhere — no matter how much it feels like home — without the legal freedom to provide health care as they were trained or to receive care themselves? And if health care workers do leave, what do they owe to the people they leave behind?
How many doctors would put up with something like this every time they treat a patient? But it isn’t just doctors who are having second thoughts…
KFF Health News reports that,
May 21, 2024On KFF Health News’ “What the Health?,” chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner sat down with Atul Grover of the Association of American Medical Colleges to talk about its recent analysis showing that graduating medical students are avoiding training in states with abortion bans and major restrictions. Among those who applied for residencies this year, that was true not only for aspiring OB-GYNs and others who regularly treat pregnant patients, but for all specialties.Fourteen states, primarily in the Midwest and South, have banned nearly all abortions. The new analysis by the AAMC found that the number of applicants to residency programs in states with near-total abortion bans declined by 4.2%, compared with a 0.6% drop in states where abortion remains legal.
Since most students get jobs near where they interned, the pipeline for new doctors as drying up in conservative states. While NBC News reports…
Medical students say strict abortion laws are driving them away from pursuing careers as doctors in states where the procedure is banned.The finding comes from a survey of third- and fourth-year medical students, conducted from August through October of last year — just after the June 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs decision that overturned Roe V. Wade, which for nearly 50 years granted the right to an abortion across the U.S.[…]The survey results reflect the feelings of future obstetricians and gynecologists as well as doctors who plan to go into other specialties, such as surgery or internal medicine, said Ariana Traub, a third-year medical student at Emory University School of Medicine, who conducted the survey.[…]Most respondents, 57.9%, were unlikely or very unlikely to apply to a single residency program in a state with abortion restrictions.
And most states that banned abortions also banned trans care for minors.
It hasn’t sunk into the Republican law markers yet that in this bigotry is going to have long term effects on healthcare in their states. Also almost all the Republican lawmakers are male and I bet that they never even thought about a shortage of OB/GYN and Endo in their states. They are so myopic that they don’t see what they are doing to healthcare in their states.
Connecticut is getting refugees from the Republican states, support organization have already seen an influx of trans people. I see a number of posts on Facebook in support groups; “Hi, I’m new to Connecticut…” A few of my trans friends who moved to Florida when they retired and now thinking about moving back to the Nutmeg state.
"Connecticut is getting refugees from the Republican states, support organization have already seen an influx of trans people." Wonderful and I say welcome. But I think if looking at the whole picture lets remember we are only one little state that is considered a safe state, (still a question about that with reps. who blow in the wind). We also must remember that the fight is not over as if that old fascist ball really gets rolling Ct. will have nothing to say about anything. It will be ruled by people who are anti LGBTQI+. There will be no safe state. I have friends who are getting passports just in case and I ask where are you going? So many countries are now playing around with fascists leaders, will you be any safer there. We decided yesterday that as freedom and liberation warriors most of our lives we are going to stay right here where the terrain is familiar, and we have a network. We never fell for the BS of the "turn in your gun crowd," and glad we didn't. As elders in this community 76 and 78 we will stay right here and fight. So again welcome to Connecticut, happy days while the sun still shines but get yourselves prepared for when the hard rain starts to fall.
ReplyDeleteThe really scary part is if they pass a national anti-trans laws that will nullify state laws!
DeleteYes I am scared of that too. As a gay male I am afraid for all of my friends and comrades who are Trans and I get angry when I think about all the hard work that we did over the years to get some freedom that it all may be thrown out the window. I am not sure that they will allow "each state to keep what laws we have on the books or not. I think also someone must figure out how can drugs be gotten from Canada without big brother watching people's mail. I believe it is still against the law to import from there. I was doing it for awhile with my RX and didn't have any trouble. I suppose if they really get rolling the head of the post office could instruct Post Offices to get packages coming in from there. Then of course there may be tarriffs. PU. We are in a fight for our very lives and the world is getting smaller.
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