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.

They would require psychiatrists, endocrinologists and medical ethicists to have roles in creating facility-wide gender-affirming care plans for patients of all ages. Patients under 21 would have to receive at least six months of mental health counseling before starting gender-affirming medication or surgery. Providers would be barred from referring minors to treatment elsewhere, such as clinics in other states.

I am fairly pro-transgender rights with some exceptions.

If anyone has read my prior post, I have always said a psychiatrist or endocrinologist should be involved with transgender people.

The law to me is a good thing. I don’t agree with the below 21, it should be 18.

I also don’t agree with the referring clause. That is good medicine to refer people to other doctors and sometimes they are outside your state.

  • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
    522·
    10 months ago

    Make it super difficult and say “well I don’t have a problem with it if they do it legally.”

    You think going to a person who specializes in hormones is difficult?

    I strongly disagree. Would you let your primary doctor do a heart transplant on you? Would you let them do a colonoscopy? I wouldn’t. You go to the right doctor for the job.

    • Bongo_Stryker
      132·
      10 months ago

      Well to be fair, I have never been to an endocrinologist nor sought treatment for gender dysphoria. But I wonder, is this legislation necessary? I think it was written from the perspective of someone who believes young people are deciding over breakfast “I want to be a girl now,” or “I want to be a boy now,” and have changed their wardrobe and gotten hormone injections that afternoon. I don’t believe it happens like that.

      • Neuromancer@lemm.eeOPM
        213·
        10 months ago

        But I wonder, is this legislation necessary Since liberals love the Nordic countries, this is more liberal than the Nordic model.

        Now I would like to see only the endocrinologist prescribing the hormones and the psychiatrist doing the evaluation. I have not seen the written law to see if they make that distinction.

        hormone injections that afternoon. I don’t believe it happens like that. It happens like that very often. When my friend decided to transition, she went to the clinic and was out in under an hour with hormones. PP even praised on their website you can be in and out in under an hour with hormones.

        To be clear that law doesn’t stop that for adults. They can still do that.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
      71·
      10 months ago

      If my primary care doctor wouldn’t perform open heart surgery because he’d lose his license after he killed me. But if my doctor is qualified to perform a procedure and I am deemed of fit mind to consent to it, why should the state have any say?