Ga. Senate backs ban on transgender care for children in late Crossover Day vote

[RandySF]

Young transgender Georgians could be denied access to some forms of gender-affirming care if a bill that passed the Senate Monday night becomes law.

Senate Bill 140, authored by Cordele Republican Sen. Carden Summers, passed on a party-line vote. It would outlaw surgical or hormone replacement treatments for gender dysphoria, with an exemption for children already taking hormone treatment. If the bill becomes law, doctors or facilities who perform or allow the banned procedures could lose their licenses.

“I want to make one thing perfectly clear: I’m not trying to harm anybody out there or cause anybody any issues whatsoever,” Summers said. “I’m just going to lay it out for you. Senate Bill 140, this bill protects children who are struggling with their gender identity from being pushed into decisions that will alter their bodies forever.”

Advocates said they fear trans children likely will be harmed if the bill becomes law. Madison Tipton was part of a group of transgender people and allies at the Capitol urging senators to vote against the measure.

“The process of going through your ‘birth puberty’ is also an irreversible process,” she said. “Most trans people I know who go through procedures as an adult, people who have waited to the age of 18 and beyond, feel like they’re playing catch up. For me, I’m a trans woman, and my voice dropped when I went through puberty. This is not something that I am able to change. You can do voice training, but it’s like, this is an irreversible thing that happened with my physiology because I was not able to go through the puberty that I wish I did.”




https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/senate-backs-ban-transgender-care-children-late-crossover-day-vote

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Another GD trash ignorant MFSOB from South Georgia. GO fuck yourself, 'Carden.' WTF is that?

[Ms. Toad]

2. This is especially devastating for trans women.

It is extremely hard to reverse the effects of going through puberty in a body flooded with male hormones. The voice changes, facial hair grows, bones structures change to a more traditionally masculine appearance (larger hands, more angular facial features). None of these are reversible by starting androgen blockers and estrogen as an adult.

One of my high school sweetheart's main fears in presenting herself as a woman was that she would never be more than a physical parody of a woman, the butt of jokes, and a target for physical violence. This fear is a direct result of the effects of what she calls the testosterone poisoning she was living with for 5 decades.

She is luckier than many. Even though she transitioned in her 50s, she was fortunate to have fairly delicate hands, and the financial resources for electrolysis to remove her beard, to obtain facial feminization surgery, and professional voice coaching. Few people mis-gender her based on appearance, but when I listen to her with my eyes closed I still hear the timbre of the voice she developed during puberty.

To force transgender children to go thorugh puberty with the hormones associated with the gender they were assigned at birth is cruel, child abuse, and helps drive up suicide attempts (and successes) not only during puberty, but well beyond. It also contributes to the alarming rate at which trans women are brutalized and murdered, because forcing them to go through puberty as a male makes it more likely that they will be perceived as male by those who are inclined toward hate.

[Initech]

5. Yeah the hate in this country is so out of control that it's getting ridiculous.

But what can be done? We can't legislate hate speech because then you get into the whole policing speech argument and I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole.

[bahboo]

3. fucking monsters...

[Initech]

4. What the fucking hell is wrong with the GOP? And why isn't anyone denouncing this crap?

Fucking MAGA Fox News Taliban assholes.