Posted on 04/05/2021 2:10:35 PM PDT by libstripper
Arkansas’ governor on Monday vetoed a ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths, calling the legislation a “vast government overreach” and a “product of the cultural war in America.”
Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said that if signed into law, the bill would interfere with physicians and parents “as they deal with some of the most complex and sensitive matters involving young people.”
The bill, which is part of a wave of similar legislation across the country, would have banned doctors from providing transgender minors with gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormone therapies and transition-related surgeries, and from referring them for such treatments. Republican lawmakers in at least 17 other states have introduced similar bans on medical treatments for transgender minors, despite opposition from major pediatric and psychiatric organizations.
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"gender-affirming".
Preventing irreversible genital mutilation in minors is to far for this squish.
to=too
It would appear that Asa Hutchinson has some deep seated unresolved issues and conflicts. Imagine a child under 18 undergoing this mutilating, bizarre surgery. Parents may be delusional and demented but a rational, courageous governor would try to save and protect a child from demented quacks.
“Gender-affirming medical treatment”
That this is legal, never mind paid for by states, is beyond belief.
It's pathetic to think that this is even up for debate.
“the bill would interfere with physicians and parents”
Maybe it should. Some parents and physicians are pushing this crap on kids who are too young to know anything
I hope the legislature can vote to override his veto.
I thought Asa Hutchinsom had more guts than to fall prey to the liberals with regard to this transgender crap.
Major medical organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society have supported access to puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children diagnosed with gender dysphoria, defined as the distress caused by a mismatch between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity. (Italics and bolding added.)
Note how the author views sex as something arbitrarily "assigned at birth" versus what her view of real "gender identity" is. Apparently XX vs. XY chromosomes just don't matter to her, or she flunked HS biology.
Please., the illustrious Doktor Mengele wannabes must be allowed to continue their human research and experimentation.
“ pushing this crap on kids who are too young”
Are you implying that surgeons should be allowed to mutilate adults who ask for it?
“I hope the legislature can vote to override his veto.”
Likely, according to the article.
Good catch!
If by the time a person reaches 18 and still doesn't believe the sex he/she was born with...they are considered adults unless of course, you are in this country illegally, then you can decide at 12 years of age, an illegal is considered an adult at 12,
What do you think would happen to you if you performed gender-affirming surgery on a puppy?
He has it backwards, like many politicians. What is really a vast government overreach is for governments to pretend that homosexuality is normal, like governments pretending that blacks aren't fully human, like governments pretending that Jews aren't fully human, like governments pretending that preborn people aren't fully human.
He must be a pedo.
man, what happened to the Hutchinson boys? They go woke?
Disgusting.
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