Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Confirming What We Knew

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Confirming What We Knew

We knew that denying us healthcare would hurt many trans people and now they proved it.

“They’re Ruining People’s Lives”
Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US
Human Rights Watch

Summary
This care was lifesaving. We didn't know it was lifesaving until it was gone.

— Sarah, mother of a 17-year-old trans girl in a state with a ban in place, April 8, 2024

Since 2021, a wave of legislation targeting transgender health care has swept across the United States, with 25 states enacting blanket bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth as of March 2025. These legislative bans, often vague and sweeping in scope, have disrupted healthcare access for over 100,000 transgender youth, and imposed significant geographic, financial, and emotional burdens on their families.

The election of President Donald Trump in November 2024 has deepened the crisis facing transgender youth and their families. In early 2025, the administration launched a series of executive actions amounting to a federal assault on transgender people’s rights.

This report, based on 51 interviews with transgender youth, parents, healthcare providers, and advocates across 19 states, examines the far-reaching impacts of legislative bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the United States, documenting the cascading effects on individuals, families, healthcare systems, and communities.

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The Harms
The consequences of losing access to gender-affirming care have been catastrophic for thousands of transgender youth and their families. Families reported instances of abruptly losing access to care, as clinics closed or reduced services, forcing repeated disruptions in treatment and exacerbating mental health crises for transgender youth.

This is a really long article...

The Context
In 2024, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case challenging Tennessee’s gender-affirming care ban, which selectively prohibits care for transgender youth while allowing identical treatments for cisgender youth. The case, expected to be decided in 2025, will determine whether such bans violate the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US constitution, potentially influencing similar laws nationwide.

They have to rule on the cases by the end of the month... bad rulings are usually posted at the end of the month.

The rise in anti-transgender legislation has coincided with an escalation in violence against transgender individuals, even as violent crime overall decreased by approximately 3 percent from 2022 to 2023. Federal Bureau of Investigation data shows that gender identity-based hate crimes are on an upward trend, increasing from 307 offenses in 2021 to 515 in 2022, reaching 547 in 2023, the latest year for which complete data is available.

If you don't think that the two are not related... I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

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