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Eugene

(62,657 posts)
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 02:22 AM Jan 2024

Ohio is poised to become the 2nd state to restrict gender-affirming care for adults

Source: Associated Press

Ohio is poised to become the 2nd state to restrict gender-affirming care for adults

BY GEOFF MULVIHILL
Updated 12:02 AM EST, January 20, 2024

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.

Ashton Colby, 31, fears the clinic where he gets the testosterone he has taken since age 19 would no longer offer it. The transgender Columbus man believes he could eventually be treated by another provider that would meet the new requirements. But even a few months’ wait could leave Colby experiencing a menstrual cycle for the first time in many years.

“My mental health has been stressed,” Colby said. “These are feelings related to being transgender that I have not felt in years, but now I’m thrown into feeling devastated about my experience as a transgender person.”

DeWine announced the proposed rules amid a whirl of activity that could push Ohio further than most other states in controlling gender-affirming care and make it just the second to set forth restrictions on adult care.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/ohio-transgender-adults-health-gender-affirming-care-f3f1c6342a2f91cbeca5d7d91c8bbd31

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Ohio is poised to become the 2nd state to restrict gender-affirming care for adults (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2024 OP
It wasn't never about "protecting the children" vercetti2021 Jan 2024 #1
Exactly. OldBaldy1701E Jan 2024 #2

vercetti2021

(10,402 posts)
1. It wasn't never about "protecting the children"
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 05:27 AM
Jan 2024

This was the end goal. To get the adults as well. They want to prevent trans people from existing at any cost.

OldBaldy1701E

(6,349 posts)
2. Exactly.
Sun Jan 21, 2024, 01:20 PM
Jan 2024

They are only protecting their fantasy lifestyle by trying to act as if there was never any such thing and there is not any such thing now. Their goal is complete annihilation of anything other than straight, white people who agree with their twisted delusions about society.

Camazotz anyone? ('A Wrinkle In Time' reference.)

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