Recent discussions and testimonies have highlighted the contentious debate surrounding gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Whistleblower Jamie Reed, formerly of a gender clinic, revealed witnessing children receiving gender-affirming care during her four-year tenure that led to significant harms. Reed criticized the practice of pressuring parents with the stark choice of medically transitioning their child or facing their potential death, suggesting it was presented as the only alternative to losing their child. Detransitioner @ChoooCole spoke out against the medical industry's exploitation of transgender ideology on children. Meanwhile, Senator John Kennedy compared affirming a child's gender identity to irresponsibly allowing a minor to drive, criticizing the pressure on parents to consent to life-altering treatments. Rolling Stone reported on the impact of Southern Anti-Trans Laws, detailing the difficult decisions families face as they navigate new legislation that puts their transgender children's health and futures at risk, leaving them with impossible choices. These laws have forced some families to seek gender-affirming care outside their home states, highlighting the broader implications of these legislative actions on trans youth and their families.
Families speak out to Rolling Stone about how lawmakers in red states have forced them to find gender affirming care out of state. "When we come back, we know we’re coming back to a state that has legislated that our child shouldn’t exist." Story: https://t.co/NzToAsU3HB https://t.co/2XsCGDsTIC
As bans on gender affirming care for trans youth are signed into law across the South, families are facing constantly changing obstacles. Rolling Stone talked to five families whose trans kids are at risk due to anti-trans legislation. Read: https://t.co/NzToAsUBx9 https://t.co/Jk74GEYVHW
Southern Anti-Trans Laws Are Uprooting Families — And Leaving Them With Impossible Choices. Families in the South had just learned to navigate care for their transgender kids when a slew of new laws put their health and futures in limbo. Here's how: https://t.co/NzToAsU3HB https://t.co/yGwb0BFnru
If a 13-year-old tells you he’s a NASCAR driver, you don’t give him the keys to your sedan. But activists pressure parents to affirm gender confusion and subject their kids to life-altering surgeries and hormone treatments. https://t.co/LJ9Ne3nb5o
Jamie Reed, a whistleblower from a gender clinic: "I saw doctors directly tell patients that it was either medically transition your child or you would have a dead child. That is absolutely not how medicine should be practiced." https://t.co/Ryxrr6o6in
Jamie Reed, a whistleblower from a gender clinic: "In my four-year tenure there, I saw many children receive so-called ‘gender affirming care’ that ended up leading to significant harms and poor outcomes.” https://t.co/1FEGcJMBnC
Jamie Reed, a whistleblower from a gender clinic: "In my four year tenure there, I saw many children receive so-called ‘gender affirming care’ that ended up leading to significant harms and poor outcomes.” https://t.co/ix6W4MrF7e
Powerful testimony from detransitioner @ChoooCole: "Before I was a teenager, I fell victim to gender ideology ... We need to stop the medical industry from taking advantage of these kids." https://t.co/05cLUKnaku
Sex change surgery is NOT “gender affirming.” Redefining words does not change facts. Giving children life altering, permanent medical procedures is child abuse and should be punished as such. Taking kids away from parents to facilitate this abuse is criminal and has to end.