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Alethia St. Joan's avatar

Huge wins followed by major losses. The daily emotional whiplash of being trans in Trump's America. #letfreedumbring

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Emily Murphy's avatar

I am too tired to be angry, right now, but I feel a deep well of determination building. I'm going to take care of myself and let this feeling build.

Sharks have survived 5 mass extinction events. Let's be sharks!

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Ann Journey's avatar

Love that analogy. Blahaj as a trans symbol is significant and meaningful!

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Anne Kiefer's avatar

Thank you, Erin. The religio-polotical influence on the conservative Justices is obvious.

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Olivia's avatar

Modern day Plessy v. Furguson ruling… this court will go down in history as a disgrace.

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Aurora M's avatar

While this is horrible, I’m sort of glad conservatives are being so loud about trans issues while they’re simultaneously trashing the US.

With any luck, once we rid ourselves of their idiotic leadership, their willfully ignorant and evil attitudes towards us trans folk will be so associated with their insanity that the general population will recoil from it. Or so I hope.

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Celeste's avatar

all that could happen is that they will stop. Getting any shift back in the other direction is going to be extremely difficult. There was a ton of political will to make these anti-trans laws happen. There is far far less to push back against them. Trans people represent an exceedingly small minority with little to no political power, as opposed to the church and billionaires that are driving this.

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Brooklyn Ricky's avatar

To some banning “transgender healthcare” is the same as denying “all healthcare” to anyone they perceive as “Trans-anything”. This is wrong as the day is long. It’s unfair, it’s sexist, toxic and sick. It’s inhumane.

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Mary Beth's avatar

The GOP wants to deny health care to anyone who can’t pay the entire bill out of pocket. I’m disappointed but by no means surprised.

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Sandra's avatar

To me, one of the worst parts of this case is that it likely guts the passport ruling, which as of yesterday seemed promising. The administration is just going to push and push the appeals until it reaches SCOTUS, who will happily take the case and then rule against trans people. After today’s ruling, I have little doubt that the passport case is doomed, This will result not only in misgendered passports but also state IDs too. It will be a nightmare. What good are lower court rulings for trans people anymore? I can see the SCOTUS language now: “This is not to discriminate against transgender people, only to make sure that birth ID is accurately recorded for the gov’t.”

This is a very sad day for everyone.

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Erin Reed's avatar

I don't think it does - the passport ruling more clearly turns on sex rather than gender dysphoria.

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Linden Jordan's avatar

The risk of disclosing one's identity still exists if you apply for a passport. To file an application is to get on the list of people who are trans. I consider that dangerous right now, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

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Chris Lyke's avatar

Stay strong, everyone. MAGA is at war with reality, a battle that they are bound to lose. They cannot erase trans people no matter what. Oppressors also cannot stop the natural inquisitiveness of the human mind that always finds the inconsistencies and breaks down their hateful lies

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Marc's avatar

Another black day in history😪

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Tammy's avatar

For now, we celebrate the wins where we find them, and strengthen each other for the fights ahead. Being from Oregon, I'm keeping my eye on the 2026 State legislation being brought forward by BRO, and throwing in my grassroots support where I can. Every little bit matters.

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Nicole B's avatar

Thanks for this callout; I'll be looking forward to seeing this on the ballot.

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Jacob's avatar

So can the medical community just change the diagnosis and/or description of the diagnosis so it doesn't conflict with the ruling?

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Alethia St. Joan's avatar

My GP said she couldn’t.

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Jacob's avatar

I meant more like at the American Medical Association level. Or whoever writes the diagnosis code books every year or so.

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Jack and Karen Hopkins's avatar

MD here and believe me I’ve thought a lot about it. I’ve taken transgender/gender dysphoria off problem lists and ‘resolved’ them from a patient’s history if they’ve asked. That doesn’t remove a diagnosis from past notes. For adults, if insurers stop paying for GAHT, physicians can still write for them. Electronic health records usually require some diagnosis associated with a prescription to allow it to send to a pharmacy. But if a patient is paying out of pocket, it doesn’t really matter if it’s gender dysphoria or hormone imbalance or endocrine disorder. Just make sure you mention something else—your allergies, blood pressure, stress—& your visit should be covered. Labs can also be covered by general screening codes. Workarounds don’t apply to youth, it’s heartbreaking.

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Larry Erickson's avatar

Workarounds not only don't apply to youth, they don't apply to anyone who can't afford to pay for treatment out- of- pocket.

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Nova Rayne's avatar

The out-of-pocket cost of securing prescriptions.. could they still be assisted by using GoodRX??

Wouldn't be a lot of a financial relief, but could be something.

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Larry Erickson's avatar

Yes, and similar discount programs. I assume (but do not know) that the standards of what and how much each covers vary, so some may cover GAHT and others not. But yes, certainly worth investigating if the need arises. I expect there will (and probably are) other sources of funding support but unfortunately I can't offer anyone any guidance of who/where they are.

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Alethia St. Joan's avatar

Ah! They should look into it.

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Kassandra F.'s avatar

These despicable people in robes already knew how they would rule on the case before they even heard the arguments. The only reason it took them so long to release their decision is because it took them that long to justify their ruling. Instead of a hearing an argument and ruling on the merits and the actual constitutionality of the legislation, these evil creatures already had a verdict, they just had to find a way to justify it - even to the point of going against precedent that they themselves set.

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Sara Stevens Singer's avatar

Maybe we need a more convincing argument. They claim that gender dysphoria does not require hormone therapy as a treatment. I think there is enough information available to reject this belief. I can only refer to my situation. I couldn't care less about hormone therapy changing my appearance. It did not. What it does is reduce the intensity of the confusion, anxiety, and frustration that gender dysphoria creates.

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Nicola A's avatar

I just feel so sorry for this generation of trans kids. Everyone is failing them.

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Kassandra F.'s avatar

This is heartbreaking news to hear. I seriously don’t understand how anyone could possibly sleep at night, knowing that their actions are going to result in the death of countless people, trans and CIS. Those people are all sick and I wonder, how can they ever possibly feel clean with that much blood on their hands.

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Evelyn Wu's avatar

Why are we still pretending that this is a system we can depend on one way or another? They do not have our best interest in mind, and even if we get small wins, red states or the Republican cesspit will just ignore those rulings and attack the judges that made them. It’s time blue states stop bending a knee to this corrupt authoritarian regime.

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Bee Ostrowsky's avatar

I didn't expect Alito and Thomas to want us to have any rights. I was only moderately surprised to see them joined by Ofjesse.

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