Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced proposals this month that transgender advocates say could block access to gender-affirming care provided by independent clinics and general practitioners, leaving thousands of adults scrambling for treatment and facing health risks.

They would require psychiatrists, endocrinologists and medical ethicists to have roles in creating facility-wide gender-affirming care plans for patients of all ages. Patients under 21 would have to receive at least six months of mental health counseling before starting gender-affirming medication or surgery. Providers would be barred from referring minors to treatment elsewhere, such as clinics in other states.

I am fairly pro-transgender rights with some exceptions.

If anyone has read my prior post, I have always said a psychiatrist or endocrinologist should be involved with transgender people.

The law to me is a good thing. I don’t agree with the below 21, it should be 18.

I also don’t agree with the referring clause. That is good medicine to refer people to other doctors and sometimes they are outside your state.

  • Fal@yiffit.net
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    10 months ago

    Did you even read your own sources?

    The methodology of those studies is very flawed, because they didn’t study gender identity,” said Diane Ehrensaft, director of mental health at UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic. “Those desistors were, a good majority of them, simply proto-gay boys whose parents were upset because they were boys wearing dresses. They were brought to the clinics because they weren’t fitting gender norms.

    That 80-90% is not children who would be given hormones or diagnosed as transgender, where it turns out it would have been a mistake. That number is any kid who had anyone question their gender identity, who at some point later, either no longer questioned their gender (or, that the study just didn’t follow up on and assumed they didn’t. Great science).

    For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority – anywhere from 65 to 94 percent – eventually ceased to identify as transgender.

    Again you’re being totally disingenuous. These are NOT children that “identify as transgender”.

    And, even if your numbers were correct, what does that prove? It means we shouldn’t be very careful about giving kids hormones. Great, done, already the case. In fact, in general kids are just given hormone blockers so that they have more time to decide. Why would you want to rush a decision of this magnitude on a kid?

    A psychiatrist who has presided over youth gender transition treatments for more than a decade says “four out of five” gender-questioning children eventually accept their bodies if no medical interventions are carried out

    Again totally meaningless. Many people “question their gender”. No one is suggesting giving any kid who questions their gender hormones immediately.

    For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority – anywhere from 65 to 94 percent – eventually ceased to identify as transgender.