Posted on 08/16/2023 4:40:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the Democratic governor’s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ+ instruction in the classroom.
GOP supermajorities in the House and Senate enacted — over Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto — a bill barring medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs and surgical gender-transition procedures to anyone under 18, with limited medical exceptions.
The policy takes effect immediately, but minors who had begun treatment before Aug. 1 may continue receiving that care if their doctors deem it medically necessary and their parents consent.
North Carolina becomes the 22nd state to enact legislation restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for trans minors. But most of those laws face legal challenges, and local LGBTQ+ right advocates vowed to challenge the ban in court.
The Senate voted 27-18 to complete the veto override after the House voted 73-46 earlier. …
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Thanks for the good news!
DEO GRATIAS
Ok, so which major sports group has an event they can pull from NC? /s
Legal challenges......ok.......
So they will argue in court, that there is a constitutional right to cross sex hormones and bodily surgeries?
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome...At last....really...”for the children”.
If genitals have nothing to do with gender, then how does removing them affirm gender?
Anyone who believes that this stuff is anything other than evil will believe anything. They have already accepted the ultimate absurdity.
a rare victory for our side. But once again, we are only playing defense - reacting to insanity that the left pushes on us - instead of playing offense.
Only playing defense is guaranteed to lose the game.
“Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming treatments...”
More accurately:
Transgender youths in North Carolin loss access Wednesday to sexual mutilation by medical ghouls.
Your gender is not a sickness needing affirming care?!
If you’re using football analogies, I’ve seen quite a few games where the defense makes winning scoring moves.
I wonder how I can get my old state of Maryland to pass these bans. Then members of my family up there won’t have to put up with these hoity-toity sports figures either.
“a rare victory for our side. But once again, we are only playing defense - reacting to insanity that the left pushes on us - instead of playing offense.
Only playing defense is guaranteed to lose the game.”
Very well put.
Exactly. But consistency and coherency do not exist in woke world.
👍😎
Maybe the Carolina Hurricanes, will be forced to change their name, to the Carolina gender affirmers. 😊
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