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Addressing Healthcare Needs of Transgender Adults: Qualitative Study Finds Three Main Barriers to Receiving Primary Care in a Supportive Environment
March 7, 2022

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945634

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(EurekAlert) INDIANAPOLIS – Transgender individuals are less likely to have had a primary care visit in the last year than cisgender individuals despite having more chronic conditions. A study from Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine and Eskenazi Health explores the healthcare experiences of transgender patients and uncovered three major barriers this group faces in accessing healthcare.

A cisgender person is someone whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their sex assigned at birth.

To better understand the challenges, perceptions and feelings of transgender patients seeking care, the research team interviewed 21 adult patients in the Gender Health Program at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, a comprehensive healthcare clinic for transgender and gender-diverse adults. The interviews revealed transgender patients in Indiana face barriers related to:
  • A lack of willing or knowledgeable providers
  • Geography
  • Long wait times for appointments
“When we spoke to these patients, many described difficulties in being able to find a provider that could or would treat them. Some traveled for hours just so they could be seen in an affirming setting with providers knowledgeable about transgender health,” said first author Joy L. Lee, PhD, M.S., research scientist at Regenstrief Institute and assistant professor of medicine at IU School of Medicine. “These interviews speak to the need for more primary care providers who can treat transgender patients and highlight the need to create healthcare spaces that feel safe for transgender individuals.”
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Idaho bill criminalizes medical trans youth treatments passes house
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... sses-house
Bill to make gender-affirming care a felony and punishable by life in prison for anyone who helps a minor travel out of state

Idaho’s house of representatives has passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming medical procedures for transgender youth and make it a felony punishable by life imprisonment for anyone who helps a child travel across state lines to gender-affirming healthcare.

The bill, approved on Tuesday, targets medical measures that include vasectomy, hysterectomy, mastectomy, puberty-blocking medication and supraphysiological doses of testosterone or estrogen.

The bill will now move on to the state’s Republican-controlled senate. If approved, the Republican governor, Brad Little, could either sign it into law.
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I’m a Cop With a Trans Daughter. Lawmakers Want Me to Arrest the Doctors Who Saved Her Life.
by David Fuller
March 11, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... as-police/

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(Mother Jones) Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said it was child abuse to give transgender teens gender-affirming health care like puberty blockers or hormone therapy. Now, Alabama lawmakers are on the verge of passing a law that would criminalize doctors who do so. The bill would make their work punishable by up to a decade in prison—even though they’re offering treatments that are reversible and approved by major medical associations. The bill is expected to pass in the coming days, and Gov. Kay Ivey is expected to sign it.

All of which terrifies David Fuller, a veteran police sergeant in Gadsden, Alabama, who could be called on to enforce the ordinance. Several years ago, his kid Jess came out as trans, and she relied on the very health care that could now be outlawed. This week he called me from his police truck to share his story, told below in his own words. (See article linked above quote box for Sergeant Fuller's discussion of his experiences with his transgendered daughter).
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Disney employees walk out, as ESPN and Disney+ back LGBTQ+ rights
by Frank Pallato
March 22, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/media/di ... index.html

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(CNN) Disney employees staged a walkout Tuesday in protest of the company's response to Florida's controversial Parental Rights in Education law, which critics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

While many employees at Disney headquarters in Burbank, California, did protest, it did not appear to be a massive showing across the company.

"We know how important this issue is for our LGBTQ+ employees, their families and allies, we respect our colleagues' right to express their views, and we pledge our ongoing support of the LGBTQ+ community in the fight for equal rights," a Disney spokesperson told CNN Business.

Some of Disney's biggest brands also showed support for the LGBTQ+ community as the company-wide walkouts took place.

"To ALL who come to this happy place, welcome," Disney Parks posted on its Instagram Tuesday morning, echoing the words of Walt Disney during his dedication speech at Disneyland's opening day in 1955. "Disney Parks, Experiences and Products is committed to creating experiences that support family values for every family, and will not stand for discrimination in any form."
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Utah Legislature overrides governor's veto of transgender sports ban bill
Source: NBC News
Utah state lawmakers on Friday overrode their Republican governor’s veto of a bill that would ban transgender students from playing girls’ sports, ensuring the controversial piece of legislation will go into effect.

During a special session called specifically to consider a veto override, both Republican-controlled chambers of the state Legislature met the two-thirds threshold to revive the bill.

The measure passed 21-8 in the Senate and 56-18 in the House. Ten Republicans in Utah's state House and five in the state Senate who had previously voted against the bill changed their votes to support the bill during the override session. Both chambers voted on Friday without additional debate.

Under the forthcoming law, transgender girls will be prohibited from playing on school sports teams aligning with their gender identity. The bill’s language bars “a student of the male sex from competing against another school on a team designated for female students.” It defines “sex” as the “biological, physical condition of being male or female, determined by an individual’s genetics and anatomy at birth.”
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"I don't think biological males should be competing in female sporting events. Maybe that's a controversial thing to say, but it just seems to me to be sensible," said UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday. https://bit.ly/3jfgeo5
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weatheriscool wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 6:24 pm "I don't think biological males should be competing in female sporting events. Maybe that's a controversial thing to say, but it just seems to me to be sensible," said UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday. https://bit.ly/3jfgeo5
Challenging situation with no correct answers. No one can clearly say anything is right in this case. Maybe transhumanism will solve this in the future (maybe? hopefully).

In fact, thinking a little bit more, transhumanism could actually kill sports in the late future as getting a better and more trained body could mean just having enough money for achieving that.
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Three Republican Governors Actually Vetoed Anti-Trans Bills. Here’s Why.
by Abigail Weinberg
April 11, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2 ... th-dakota/

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(Mother Jones) As the moral panic about trans youth spreads, a dozen states have passed laws, mostly driven by Republican legislators, which prevent trans students from participating on girls’ sports teams. But in some states, these bills are facing unexpected opponents: Republican governors.
Thus far, only one Republican governor has successfully thwarted his state’s efforts to bring state law into high school sports. But three Republicans have joined Democrats in Kentucky, Kansas, and Louisiana in taking a stand against laws that target nonexistent problems. Here are their reasons.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb

Last month, Holcomb took a pragmatic approach in vetoing a bill that would have banned trans girls from participating in girls’ sports, arguing that the vague language of the legislation would open schools up to lawsuits. He further added that at no point in the past 10 years had a trans girl sought to compete on a girls’ team in Indiana.

The most compelling and compassionate rebuke of anti-trans athletics legislation came from (Utah Governor Spencer) Cox, who issued a five-page statement last month outlining the logistical and moral downsides of the state’s proposed anti-trans sports bill...
  • “Four kids and only one of them playing girls sports. That’s what all of this is about. Four kids who aren’t dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something. Four kids trying to get through each day. Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live. And all the research shows that even a little acceptance and connection can reduce suicidality significantly. For that reason, as much as any other, I have taken this action in the hope that we can continue to work together and find a better way.”
caltrek's comment: One wonders, is there any vulnerable minority that Republican legislators won't stoop to attacking for political gain?

At least some Republican governors have a bit more sense in the matter.
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Madison Cawthorn photos reveal him wearing women's lingerie in public setting
Source: Politico
Photographs obtained by POLITICO appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting.

Cawthorn, 26, was raised in a conservative Baptist community in Henderson County, North Carolina, and has staked his political persona on arch-traditional Christian principles and the insistence of the importance of a kind of hypermasculinity. His comments about “the sexual perversion” in Washington made on a podcast, which he later admitted were exaggerated, drew the public disapproval and disavowal of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as well as other Republican leaders including those in his North Carolina congressional caucus.

The revelation of the two photos is the latest in a series of unflattering headlines for the freshman member of Congress in the run-up to the primary in his first re-election bid. The primary in North Carolina is May 17. Cawthorn has seven Republican opponents who see him as vulnerable.

Cawthorn, who was paralyzed from the waist down as a passenger in a car accident in Florida in 2014, in recent months has called Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug,” suggested teetotaling Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a drinking problem, and racked up a collection of traffic transgressions including speeding, driving with expired tags and driving with a revoked license. He has court dates in May and June.
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