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U.S. Senate passes defense bill that bars gender-affirming care for service members’ kids
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We prevented like 10 teenagers from being able to talk to their doctors about their gender dysphoria. Really making America great again, guys /s
Why can't doctors just be allowed to do their jobs? And patients just be allowed to tell their doctors what is going on with them?
Tricare has around 2 million children on it. Around 1% of the population is trans, so that's 20k trans kids receiving healthcare under Tricare. Considering the untreated trans suicide rate is around 40%, if even a quarter of that succeed...
Well, I'm sure those 2,000 child corpses will be worth it in the end. What's a few thousand dead kids in the grand scheme of thing, eh?
These people are child murderers. They better hope there is no Hell, because if there is, they each assuredly secured their place there.
I will not downplay trans rights, but I cannot believe 1 of 100 people are truly trans. That's a stunning number, over 330K Americans.
Let's do some simple thought experiments. How many trans people have you personally known? After 54 years in this world, I can't think of a single one. I've have had loads of gay acquaintances, friends, coworkers, etc. All I got on my mind was a trans woman at the Home Depot that really knew her shit about paint. Loved her, she's gone. Yes, being closeted will skew that number big time, I get that.
And I'm not talking about teenagers. FFS, given the current social environment I would have called myself trans at 17, always been in touch with my feminine side. Used to always joke that I should have been born a woman. LOL, I'm wearing a woman's blouse right now! (Skinny guys! Have a look at women's clothes! They're cut for us.) Yet on the Kinsey scale, I'm pegging hetero and masculine.
You would be surprised. I know of several trans people who transitioned and had surgery decades ago and don't tell anyone. Not even therapists or close friends. If you didn't know them before or have an important specific reason it needs to be known it just never comes up.
That was the goal for a lot of people until recent times. Even now there are still a ton of people who just do it and want to move on with their lives forgetting about it like an old medical issue they resolved.
You are mostly going to notice people who are early on or very open about it. One of the reasons that trans healthcare at a younger age is important is because it makes it much easier to blend in with society the rest of their lives. Blocking this care is going to make trans people more visible than if they weren't forced to go through an unwanted puberty.
Another thing is that a lot of people who have transitioned don't care about stuff like makeup or clothes. It's about identity and physical body features. That stuff comes secondary and early on is often explored more because it's new and can be validating. It's also not about orientation either, there are people who transitioned MTF living lives as lesbians and people FTM lived as gay couples. You yourself are an example of how the clothes you like to wear is unrelated to your gender identity.