The memo went out on Wednesday from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at HHS, and threatens to pull funding from hospitals that do not comply.
Some people who work in hospitals and medical offices; when they hear that “transgender” care need not, and should not be provided; they think not just about “hormonal care”, they think about all care.
In other words, they act as if they don’t have to give medical assistance to anyone perceived to be transgender. This is happening in places like Florida, and elsewhere.
This has to stop, this is peoples lives at risk. It’s taking away their actual general healthcare, even if they paid for it. I’ve seen it firsthand.
Me, too. I've been in the ER and told I had to wait until a physician arrived "able to treat me". It was a crush/twist injury of my left middle finger. My finger doesn't have a discernible gender, but the doctor on hand "didn't treat my kind of people" so my ass sat in the waiting area seven hours without even an aspirin.
Didn't lose the finger so I guess...it turned out ok?
Already tried, insufficient evidence of bias, plus the injury happened in one state, the hospital was in another state, and I live in a third state. My attorney said Arkansas and Missouri have no LGBTQ inclusive civil rights statues, even though my home state of Illinois has 100% SOGI inclusion, but she thought it would be a jurisdictional mess and probably then not be worth it and so...no go.
Or intersex surgeries guessing at someone's gender identity at birth, FORCING them to have GCS later in life?
Tens of thousands of these procedures are performed on infants in the United States, mutilating children, and every anti-Trans bill EXPLICITLY authorizes these genuinely mutilating surgeries while banning necessary gender affirming care for youth and surgery for adults. Despicable.
Nope.
GOPMAGAs say intersex people don't exist and if they do, they SHOULDN'T.
Wow it’s almost as if they don’t even know how to enact their own policies or why they’re arguing for them. 🫠 Lines up with the total on-again, off-again s**t show we’re seeing in the news every day.
They don't really HAVE to care about the outcomes of their policies when the genuine and most truthful MAGA intent of such policies towards Trans and gender expansive Americans is to force us to detransition, suicide, incarceration and death, or emigration; genocide.
This is what modern 21st century genocide in America looks like.
There they go again! The language is all wrong. I don't want to hear or read the word MUTILATION juxtaposed, suggested or characterized in the same sentence as transgender surgery, procedures, or care. When an unfortunate woman undergoes a radical double mastectomy because of breast cancer, she receives a legitimate life-saving medical procedure. But when the same procedure is performed on a transitioning (female to male) person, the exact same procedure suddenly is characterized as mutilation, harmful, cosmetic, or part of a delusion. The fact is transgender males greatly benefit from these procedures (along with a regimen of testosterone injections).
There is no documentation of anyone (in modern times) being intentionally mutilated by a doctor or surgeon regarding gender affirming care. Anyone out there is challenged to bring forth one bit of evidence to the contrary (obviously there isn't such proof). Doctors do not train for well over a decade to start a career of mutilating their patients. Same goes for skilled surgeons (these surgeons are highly skilled and the work they do is miraculous. Nothing short of it). These doctors and surgeons are commonly members of WPATH, and they adhere to strict guidelines. My transgender surgeon is one of them. She is well known in Miami, and her reputation is Rock Solid among the Transgender Community here. Surgical techniques may include microscopy for these procedures. Insuring accuracy and precision. What I wrote here should be adequate. Still, this silly (but remarkably effective) game will continue I'm sure. So government officials, junk journalists, and crackpot science stop this lying game and insulting tactic. Your Healthcare policies are dirty and hurtful. And it has worked to the detriment of the transgender population and also parents who have transgender children. And of course the children, pre-teens, and adults who potentially elect gender affirming medical procedures. You are also hurting the careers of those who worked very hard to provide such services. People who do not approve of medically treating the transgender condition should at the very least have the good sense and decency to be honest and rational about established medical procedures and care. Creating lies is bad government. I am insulted and offended by this use of the word mutilation. The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, freely throws this word about when discussing transgender people and gender affirming care. It is such a cheap shot and everyone knows it. Everyone except a portion of the population who has been scared into believing this charade.
(Does he hold a medical degree of any sort? No of course he doesn't). This has gone on for much too long, and it needs to stop for the good of everyone involved.
* no MUTILATION of the facts please.
* Transgender care is legitimate, desirable, helpful.🌈🏳️⚧️
The GOPMAGAs are not concerned with facts and history. They feel they won a war on November 5th 2024 and as the overwhelming victors whose party will be in power for a thousand years, they not only control reality... Karoline Leavitt bathes in "alternative facts" and wallows in a muddy sty of flat out lies... they get to write as victors all FUTURE history, and as overweening fascists, they also get to rewrite all PAST HISTORY. They OWN reality itself.
Facts and science itself must conform to MAGA ideology and Project 2025 or be denounced, defunded, and destroyed.
If you didn't get an email from A4TE they have put together a Step 1, 2, 3 action at their website to testify against what's going on with passports and documents. 40,000+ moms have relied on these two, now merged into A4TE, groups for YEARS. If you have the energy at all to share your story even under an alias, please take a look. There's even a video that tells you step by step what to do. Get yourselves on proton mail. Get yourselves on Signal. Then...have a pot luck with people who love you and believe you. I believe you.
But...dear ones...also "the head of the h h s " isn't taken seriously. I will keep my fingers crossed for injunctions to work as they have been. I've seen more support this week than the whole 6 weeks or so. People seem to finally be tuning in better. Ugh. Stay strong. How? Get with each other. You are loved.
It would be super helpful to keep an updated list of hospitals/institutions/etc who are caving to the unenforceable executive orders affecting trans patients. I'm sure your readers would be happy to submit their local info to pitch in on the project.
Some people who work in hospitals and medical offices; when they hear that “transgender” care need not, and should not be provided; they think not just about “hormonal care”, they think about all care.
In other words, they act as if they don’t have to give medical assistance to anyone perceived to be transgender. This is happening in places like Florida, and elsewhere.
This has to stop, this is peoples lives at risk. It’s taking away their actual general healthcare, even if they paid for it. I’ve seen it firsthand.
Me, too. I've been in the ER and told I had to wait until a physician arrived "able to treat me". It was a crush/twist injury of my left middle finger. My finger doesn't have a discernible gender, but the doctor on hand "didn't treat my kind of people" so my ass sat in the waiting area seven hours without even an aspirin.
Didn't lose the finger so I guess...it turned out ok?
Document and find a lawyer.
Already tried, insufficient evidence of bias, plus the injury happened in one state, the hospital was in another state, and I live in a third state. My attorney said Arkansas and Missouri have no LGBTQ inclusive civil rights statues, even though my home state of Illinois has 100% SOGI inclusion, but she thought it would be a jurisdictional mess and probably then not be worth it and so...no go.
Sorry to hear that and sorry you were subject to that treatment. :(
Absolutely horrific of any doctor to deny care like that.
"protect children from ... surgical mutilation"? Will they be stopping circumcision then?
That'd be one way hospitals could over-comply that might get the feds to back off.
Or intersex surgeries guessing at someone's gender identity at birth, FORCING them to have GCS later in life?
Tens of thousands of these procedures are performed on infants in the United States, mutilating children, and every anti-Trans bill EXPLICITLY authorizes these genuinely mutilating surgeries while banning necessary gender affirming care for youth and surgery for adults. Despicable.
Nope.
GOPMAGAs say intersex people don't exist and if they do, they SHOULDN'T.
Wow it’s almost as if they don’t even know how to enact their own policies or why they’re arguing for them. 🫠 Lines up with the total on-again, off-again s**t show we’re seeing in the news every day.
They don't really HAVE to care about the outcomes of their policies when the genuine and most truthful MAGA intent of such policies towards Trans and gender expansive Americans is to force us to detransition, suicide, incarceration and death, or emigration; genocide.
This is what modern 21st century genocide in America looks like.
Eradication.
Fighting as hard as we can. This is my hill.
Oh I’m with you ❤️😭
MUTILATION
There they go again! The language is all wrong. I don't want to hear or read the word MUTILATION juxtaposed, suggested or characterized in the same sentence as transgender surgery, procedures, or care. When an unfortunate woman undergoes a radical double mastectomy because of breast cancer, she receives a legitimate life-saving medical procedure. But when the same procedure is performed on a transitioning (female to male) person, the exact same procedure suddenly is characterized as mutilation, harmful, cosmetic, or part of a delusion. The fact is transgender males greatly benefit from these procedures (along with a regimen of testosterone injections).
There is no documentation of anyone (in modern times) being intentionally mutilated by a doctor or surgeon regarding gender affirming care. Anyone out there is challenged to bring forth one bit of evidence to the contrary (obviously there isn't such proof). Doctors do not train for well over a decade to start a career of mutilating their patients. Same goes for skilled surgeons (these surgeons are highly skilled and the work they do is miraculous. Nothing short of it). These doctors and surgeons are commonly members of WPATH, and they adhere to strict guidelines. My transgender surgeon is one of them. She is well known in Miami, and her reputation is Rock Solid among the Transgender Community here. Surgical techniques may include microscopy for these procedures. Insuring accuracy and precision. What I wrote here should be adequate. Still, this silly (but remarkably effective) game will continue I'm sure. So government officials, junk journalists, and crackpot science stop this lying game and insulting tactic. Your Healthcare policies are dirty and hurtful. And it has worked to the detriment of the transgender population and also parents who have transgender children. And of course the children, pre-teens, and adults who potentially elect gender affirming medical procedures. You are also hurting the careers of those who worked very hard to provide such services. People who do not approve of medically treating the transgender condition should at the very least have the good sense and decency to be honest and rational about established medical procedures and care. Creating lies is bad government. I am insulted and offended by this use of the word mutilation. The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, freely throws this word about when discussing transgender people and gender affirming care. It is such a cheap shot and everyone knows it. Everyone except a portion of the population who has been scared into believing this charade.
(Does he hold a medical degree of any sort? No of course he doesn't). This has gone on for much too long, and it needs to stop for the good of everyone involved.
* no MUTILATION of the facts please.
* Transgender care is legitimate, desirable, helpful.🌈🏳️⚧️
100% correct. We cannot allow the insanity of these people go on. Trump and his gang of bullies and thieves NEED TO GO!
They are so depressingly consistent in their total disregard for facts and evidence...
They have no choice. Facts don't favor them, they MUST lie or lose control of the narrative.
The GOPMAGAs are not concerned with facts and history. They feel they won a war on November 5th 2024 and as the overwhelming victors whose party will be in power for a thousand years, they not only control reality... Karoline Leavitt bathes in "alternative facts" and wallows in a muddy sty of flat out lies... they get to write as victors all FUTURE history, and as overweening fascists, they also get to rewrite all PAST HISTORY. They OWN reality itself.
Facts and science itself must conform to MAGA ideology and Project 2025 or be denounced, defunded, and destroyed.
'... will be in power for a thousand years....'
I see what you did there :-).
If you didn't get an email from A4TE they have put together a Step 1, 2, 3 action at their website to testify against what's going on with passports and documents. 40,000+ moms have relied on these two, now merged into A4TE, groups for YEARS. If you have the energy at all to share your story even under an alias, please take a look. There's even a video that tells you step by step what to do. Get yourselves on proton mail. Get yourselves on Signal. Then...have a pot luck with people who love you and believe you. I believe you.
Scroll down to Freedom to Fly and take it from there https://transequality.org/
Actions like these are working.
But...dear ones...also "the head of the h h s " isn't taken seriously. I will keep my fingers crossed for injunctions to work as they have been. I've seen more support this week than the whole 6 weeks or so. People seem to finally be tuning in better. Ugh. Stay strong. How? Get with each other. You are loved.
Hey, Erin,
It would be super helpful to keep an updated list of hospitals/institutions/etc who are caving to the unenforceable executive orders affecting trans patients. I'm sure your readers would be happy to submit their local info to pitch in on the project.
We sadly have several Portland Oregon organizations to report who are complying with the EOs.
Several? Ouch! I was hoping compliance was relatively rare <sigh>. If it is widespread then making a list would be overwhelming.
If this reaches my state I'll take my nonbinary teen to Canada. We actually have an appointment next week.
Thank you for your reporting Mira
Thank you. Welcome, glad to have you in my feed...
FU!!!RFK