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The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.

Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.

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[–] [email protected] 258 points 1 year ago (68 children)

It's almost as if it was never about children???

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually fucking painful the amount of people I had this argument with, hate being vindicated in this way. It was never about the children, it's purely about hate.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's never, ever about the children. Even abortion isn't about the children. Children are just a convenient and effective red herring.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If Republicans cared in the slightest about children, they would have done something after Sandy Hook other than make up conspiracy theories.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

like the wise man said "if youre preborn youre fine. if youre preschool youre fucked."

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny how the same people supporting this law oppose universal school breakfast/lunches, subsidized neonatal/child healthcare, and funding for extracurricular programs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

only if those programs support minorities. government-funded school breakfasts or lunches, healthcare subsidies, and funding for school extracurricular programs are all A-OK as long as we can make sure it only happens at schools that primarily serve rich white christians.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Fascism always needs a Boogeyman

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Pro life...until you're out of the womb... then you're on your own... and get to work!... didn't you hear about the rollback of child labor laws?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (26 children)

Form the powerhouse that brought you such groovy hits like, “Don’t Tread on Me” and “Small Goverment Now!” comes a new hip tune by the GOPissfarts:

We Are Slackjawed Hypocrites.

Enjoy their olympic-level feat of mental gymnastics as they spew the barely coherent rhetoric-laced psychobabble of meaningless nonsense while simultaneously trying to justify how “iTs diFfErEnT wHeN iTs aBoUt tEh gAyS*™”

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

it's only hypocrisy if you take the most generous possible interpretation of the things the right-wingers say, not what they so obviously mean

it's always been very clear all along that "don't tread on me" doesn't mean the same thing as "don't tread on anybody". they want some people to be firmly tread upon, and others not to be.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're coming for your ~~guns~~ healthcare. Next is your contraceptives.

FWIW, they came for your porn in many GOP-controlled states.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Terrible news, of course, but I'd like to thank OP for including a little of the article. It means, in my blog, I can link to this page on Lemmy, instead of linking to the article and all the ads no doubt awaiting readers there...

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

"Blindsided" is incorrect. If you are a minority living in Florida and you're just now realizing that The government is less than amenable towards you then you have been willfully ignorant at best.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Florida continues the habit of ensuring it hurts every citizen in it's state. Has Florida actually done anything "good" for all of Florida?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They came for the people who were disenfranchised and couldn't vote them out of office.

Now they're coming for you because you could have and didn't.

Nobody deserves to be treated like this, to have stupid bigoted political games played with their healthcare, but if you were okay with it being done to young people, you at least should not be surprised that now it's also being done to you.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Now, do you really think there are enough trans adults in Florida to vote out the people who created this law? The article doesn't say they voted Republican and I think we can assume they didn't. The reason they used the word "blindsided" is because they say the adult aspects of the bill were never part of the public discussion in the news. Of course they could have sought out the full text of the bill, read it and publicized it themselves. But they probably thought they already knew it was a terrible idea without reading past the denial of care to youths. And even if they had risen en masse to protest both new laws, it would only have further energized the red wing who portray them as evil degenerates undermining society.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

What a nasty way to respond to a minority losing healthcare access. It's really easy to sit there and tell them they should have tried harder when you're not the one doing the work.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The GOP in general, and DeSpicable in particular, need to survey the bottom of the Marianas Trench to show those bottom feeders how it's done.

(I hear OceanGate has the perfect submarine to get them there!)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Like many transgender adults in Florida, he and Lucas are now facing tough choices, including whether to uproot their lives so that they can continue to access gender-confirming care.

Lucas, 26, lost his access to treatment when the Orlando clinic that prescribed him hormone replacement therapy stopped providing gender-affirming care altogether.

But SPEKTRUM Health Inc., the Orlando clinic that prescribed Lucas hormone replacement therapy, has stopped providing gender-affirming care.

“There are a lot of people looking for care that we’re no longer legally able to provide,” said Lana Dunn, SPEKTRUM Health’s chief operating officer.

Florida has the second-largest population of transgender adults in the U.S., at an estimated 94,900 people, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.

While SPEKTRUM has bolstered its mental health services since the law passed, it and other organizations heavily rely on nurse practitioners to provide care.


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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This comment section is the first time I've wondered why I bothered leaving reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I lived in Florida, I try and get telehealth and mail order scripts from a blue state that with trans sanctuary and healthcare protection laws. There are a number of states where the healthcare provider is protected from evil red state laws.

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