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.

  • Bongo_Stryker
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    10 months ago

    1. You should not make such assumptions.

    2. As you often say, “you got a cite for that?” Can you produce this Swedish research? Have you read this Swedish research? Have you read the recent German Bundesministerium für Gesundheit report that seems to mostly contradict the Swedes?

    They still allow exceptional cases

    So Sweden the country you hold up as a model that we should emulate does allow it, sometimes.

    1. I still think it is a distraction from the growing inequality in America. The danger of " woke gender ideology" is a Trojan horse filled with policies to extract the wealth of the nation into the coffers of the already rich and powerful.