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Even some Democrats are breaking ranks on trans
Slowly — very slowly — some Democrats are realising that reforming, limiting, or even banning “gender-affirming care” is not only political...
Slowly — very slowly — some Democrats are realising that reforming, limiting, or even banning “gender-affirming care” is not only politically viable, but morally and scientifically responsible. Yesterday, Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill, the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, passed the House with three Democrats signing on. The bill renders the provision of these treatments a Class C felony, and states explicitly that recipients of the treatments have a right to sue. It also denies federal funding for such practices, reversing course on the Obama Administration’s convoluted path to funding them: declaring it discrimination if insurance companies didn’t. The three Democrats who voted in favour of the bill hail from Texas and North Carolina, which may partly explain their willingness to cross party lines: they’re moderate Democrats representing moderate districts.
Curiously, four Republicans voted against the bill, breaking party ranks on the other side. Why they did so is something of a mystery. Some represent swing districts or purple states, including Pennsylvania and Colorado. Some may think the bill is too sweeping and punitive — not just a ban, but a threat, at a time when the Right is fracturing due to extremists within its ranks. Others think the bill is overreach, and that doctors and patients should decide their medical care — an argument advanced by activists and supporters of gender-affirming care. Some may also just realise that the bill’s chances of surviving in the Senate, after Democratic gains in the midterm elections, are minimal. We shouldn’t need bills like this but, unfortunately, they are a necessary corrective. So many accumulated revelations should by now have granted permission to dissent without being branded unkind or consigned to the wrong side of history — the anxieties that still dominate liberal thinking. Increasing numbers of detransitioners, with girls as young as 12 receiving double mastectomies on healthy breasts. Doctors admitting they let the children decide which interventions they want. The low-quality evidence for these procedures.
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