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Indiana ban on gender transition treatment for minors upheld by U.S. appeals court (www.nbcnews.com)
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Summary

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Indiana’s law banning puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors, aligning with similar laws in 26 GOP-led states.

Plaintiffs argued the law discriminates based on sex and interferes with parental rights to direct medical treatment for their children, but the 2-1 ruling dismissed these claims.

The court stated the law applies equally to all minors and parents don’t have unrestricted rights to medical treatments.

This decision comes as the Supreme Court prepares to review a similar Tennessee case, potentially setting a nationwide precedent.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

We're in Indiana. One of my daughter's close friends is trans. The school system treats him like shit already. He has to change with the girls and use the girls' bathroom. Once, a girl was being a bigot to him over and over and he finally lost it and slapped her. He got in trouble, she did not.

I wish I could help him somehow. He's such a sweet kid.

[–] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 91 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Cool, more teen suicides. Probably even pre-teens.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Less teens to get shot at school!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Until suicidal trans boys start acting like suicidal cis boys

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trans erasure in action.

I hope denying healthcare to children was worth owning the libs.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

They didn’t give a shit about children getting slaughtered in schools for decades. They won’t start caring now.

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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Much like book bans in school libraries that have moved to city libraries and all the other bans that started in schools, this will soon move from bans on children getting healthcare, to bans on adults getting healthcare once they use the "save the children" rhetoric to make their followers comfortable with the prejudices in general.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, Missouri tried to include adults with autism from getting gender care.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that's one reason I'll never get an official Autism diagnosis. The misinformation about autism that politicians work with is gross. I mostly blame the companies like Autism Speaks who present it as a disease to be cured so parents don't feel bad about making their kids mask rather than most forms being simply a sociologically induced disability because people are too lazy to adapt and too many exploitative social practices exist that neurotypicals can adapt to easily, but many neurodivergent people can't and they don't want to give up the exploitation.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Absolutely. The plan is no more gender affirming care for trans people period.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The frustrating part of all of this is that it is true that puberty blockers aren't approved by the FDA for delaying puberty for gender affirming treatments, but it is used anyway as an off-label use. Criticism of off-label uses of pharmaceuticals is a perfectly valid concern to have.

But if you actually had this concern in good faith, you would be putting pressure on the FDA to investigate this use of puberty blockers directly and make a call or whether or not this is an approved use. You would be demanding that the FDA fill in the gaps in their knowledge, and only allow this use of puberty blockers if there was no harm found.

Going straight to the legislature and banning it outright is underhanded as shit. The only reason to do that is because you know that the FDA has no reason to disapprove of this use, and you want to medically oppress trans people regardless of what the science actually says.

It's transphobic bullshit, and anyone telling you that their concern is the safety and welfare of children is lying to you, because if that were true they would act like it.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Like gender identity interacts with the chemistry of the drug somehow? Is it safe if the kid is cis and it is not when the kid is trans? Is there some (well) materialism in gender identity or is this philosophical dualism of some sort?

The prescribed use is to suppress the development of sex features by blocking sex hormones, so how is it different?

This is just fear mongering.

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