Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire!

That schoolyard chant doesn't mean anything to the Republicans. What they are counting on are lazy voters who take everything they say as gospel.

The Republicans cite a huge number of boys getting breast surgery... which is a Republican lie! There is a medical condition called gynecomastia, which is the overdevelopment or enlargement of breast tissue in boys and men. It is a common condition often triggered by hormonal imbalances during puberty. But they lie and lump all those surgeries in with us! Do you know how many surgeries are done on trans girls to enlarge their breasts? "0", zero! None!

I think that the Republicans know the difference, which means they must be doing it intentionally.

Senate Scrutinizes Gender Transition Care for Minors
By Legis1 Editorial · Edited by Zarrin Ahmed, Joanne Levine
Friday, May 15, 2026

 

 

Why It Matters
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is convening a hearing on gender transition procedures for minors at a moment when the medical establishment is shifting, the Trump administration has moved aggressively on the issue, and major hospitals have already changed their practices. What happens in that hearing room on May 21 could shape federal policy on one of the most contested questions in American medicine and politics.

 

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What Cassidy Is Driving
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a physician and HELP Committee chair, announced the hearing alongside a formal investigation into federally funded health entities he alleged were performing what he described as "irreversible gender mutilation on children and vulnerable individuals." Cassidy sent letters to federally supported community health centers scrutinizing whether they were providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and related services to minors using taxpayer funds, according to Fox News reporting. He also cited the Department of Justice representation of community health centers or their providers in litigation involving gender transition-related services as a concern.

The hearing is an extension of a sustained oversight campaign. Cassidy had previously expanded his investigation to include the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society, alleging those organizations pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to remove age limitations on gender surgeries. His committee's press office also reported that major U.S. hospitals ended gender transition services for children following actions by President Trump and Cassidy, framing that development as a direct result of the committee's oversight work.

First of all: it is Doctor Sen. Bill Cassidy. You mean to tell me that he, as a doctor, doesn't know the truth?

The Political Fault Lines
The committee's Democratic members, including Sanders, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), are expected to push back on the framing of the hearing and defend access to gender-affirming care. Baldwin, the first openly gay person elected to the Senate, has been a consistent voice on LGBTQ health issues.

On the Republican side, senators including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) have each been vocal critics of gender transition procedures for minors in other venues and are likely to use the hearing to press that position.

Yay Chris! (More about him later.)

So Dr. Paul knows the truth too, yet he will not violate his doctor's Hippocratic Oath. However, he has voted against trans bills because of cost. MedPage Today writes...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) immediately pushed back, calling Wednesday's hearing "disappointing."

"It is disappointing in the sense as to why millions of Americans are giving up on the political process," Sanders said. "They look to Washington at a time when they are facing unprecedented crises, and they're saying who is responding to our needs. And today we are ... spending hours on a hearing that impacts an infinitesimal number of people."

He pointed instead to high rates of childhood poverty and hunger in the U.S. as well as high costs of healthcare.

Meanwhile, "what the medical and scientific community tells us is that gender-affirming care is associated with a lower risk of depression, severe anxiety, and suicidal thoughts," Sanders continued. "Bottom line, gender-affirming care for youth should be between a doctor, a patient, and their parents, not politicians and the federal government. Not only would banning gender-affirmative care do nothing to protect kids, it will make it harder for them to get the healthcare they need, and that would be a tragedy."

Hey do you remember the Republican mantra? About "parental rights", smaller government and getting off your back, well...

The government is "attempting to rob families of the right and freedom to make medical decisions about their own children," he contended. Additionally, the government is "baselessly attacking safe and effective medical care." And finally, "in a way we have never seen before in this country, the government is attempting to seize, secretly, the medical records of families to use private medical information about their children for an unlimited and unknown purpose."

"Few principles in American law are more settled than the right of parents to make medical decisions for their own children in consultation with their doctors," he added.

In response to questions from Sanders, Minter noted the "level of anguish" that healthcare professionals and families are experiencing due to the current administration's targeting of gender-affirming care for youth is "really profound."

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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said Cole's experience is tragic, but contended it is a classic case of medical malpractice. "I think the solution here is malpractice cases," Kaine said. "I think the solution is standards of care by the [American Medical Association] and the plastic surgeons and the pediatricians, which are evolving as more research is done. I don't think the right answer is a federal one-size-fits-all."

Families are packing up and moving to "free states." Just like in the Jim Crow era when Black families fled the South, trans families are now fleeing the South just to get medical treatment for their children!

Listen to him! Take less than 5 minutes to listen to Sen. Sanders and hear the truth, not the Republican lies.

 

I first met Connecticut Sen. Murphy back in 2007 when I went down to lobby for the gender-inclusive version of ENDA, but he was a representative back then. The next time I met the Congressman, I was interning for my MSW at the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund (now known as She Leads Justice). The last time I met him, I was serving as the Executive Director of the Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition. It was at a press conference in the Legislative Office Building (LOB), and by then, he was a senator.