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the reason its getting banned is because the law makers dont even meet any kids whove gotten it, the only thing they learn about transgender people is from transphobes, and documentaries about detransitioners

So today I want to talk about puberty blockers for transgender kids, because despite being cisgender, this is a subject I’m actually well-versed in. Specifically, I want to talk about how far backwards things have gone.

This story starts almost 20 years ago, and it’s kind of long, but I think it’s important to give you the full history. At the time, I was working as an administrative assistant for a pediatric endocrinologist in a red state. Not a deep deep red state like Alabama, we had a little bit of a purple trend, but still very much red. (I don’t want to say the state at the risk of doxxing myself.) And I took a phone call from a woman who said, “My son is transgender. Does your doctor do hormone therapy?”

I said, “Good question! Let me find out.”

I went into the back and found the doctor playing Solitaire on his computer and said, “Do you do hormone therapy for transgender kids?” It had literally never come up before. He had opened his practice there in the early 2000s. This was roughly 2006, and the first time someone asked. Without looking up from his game of Solitaire, the doctor said, “I’ve never done it before, but I know how it works, so sure.”

I got back on the phone and told the mom, who was overjoyed, and scheduled an appointment for her son. He was the first transgender child we treated with puberty blockers. But not, by far, the first child we treated with puberty blockers, period. Because puberty blockers are used very commonly for children with precocious puberty (early-onset puberty). I would say about twenty percent of the kids our doctor treated were for precocious puberty and were on puberty blockers. They have been well studied and are widely used, safe, and effective.

Well. It turned out, the doctor I worked for was the only doctor in the state who was willing to do this. And word spread pretty fast in the tight-knit community of ‘parents of transgender children in a red state’. We started seeing more kids. A better drug came out. We saw some kids who were at the age where they were past puberty, and prescribed them estrogen or testosterone. Our doctor became, I’m fairly sure, a small folk hero to this community. 

Insurance coverage was a struggle. I remember copying articles and pages out of the Endocrine Society Manual to submit with prior authorization requests for the medications. Insurance coverage was a struggle for a lot of what we did, though. Growth hormone for kids with severe idiopathic short stature. Insulin pumps, which weren’t as common at the time, and then continuous glucose monitoring, when that came out. Insurance struggles were just part and parcel of the job.

I remember vividly when CVS Caremark, a pharmaceutical management company, changed their criteria and included gender dysphoria as a covered diagnosis for puberty blockers. I thought they had put the option on the questionnaire to trigger an automatic denial. But no - it triggered an approval. Medicaid started to cover it. I got so good at getting approvals with my by then tidy packet of articles and documentation that I actually had people in other states calling me to see what I was submitting (the pharmaceutical rep gave them my number because they wanted more people on their drug, which, shady, but sure. He did ask me if it was okay first).

And here’s the key point of this story:

At no point, during any of this, did it ever even occur to any of us that we might have to worry about whether or not what we were doing was legal.

It just never even came up. It was the medically recommended treatment so we did it. And seeing what’s happening in the UK and certain states in America is both terrifying and genuinely shocking to me, as someone who did this for almost fifteen years, without ever even wondering about the legality of it.

The doctor retired some years ago, at which point there were two other doctors in the state who were willing to prescribe the medications for transgender kids. I truly think that he would still be working if nobody else had been willing to take those kids on as patients. He was, by the way, a white cisgender heterosexual Boomer. I remember when he was introduced to the concept of ‘genderfluid’ because one of our patients on HRT wanted to go off. He said ‘that’s so interesting!’ and immediately went to Google to learn more about it. 

I watched these kids transform. I saw them come into the office the first time, sometimes anxious and uncertain, sometimes sullen and angry. I saw them come in the subsequent times, once they were on hormone therapy, how they gradually became happy and confident in themselves. I saw the smiles on their faces when I gave them a gender marker letter for the DMV. I heard them cheer when I called to tell them I’d gotten HRT approved by insurance and we were calling in a prescription. It was honestly amazing and I will always consider the work I did in that red state with those kids to be something I am incredibly proud of. I was honored to be a part of it.

When I see all this transgender backlash, it’s horrifying, because it was well on the way to become standard and accepted treatment. Insurances started to cover it. Other doctors were learning to prescribe it. And now … it’s fucking illegal? Like what the actual fuck. We have gone so far backwards that it makes me want to cry. I don’t know how to stop this slide. But I wrote this so people would understand exactly how steep the slide is.

saying someone commited terrorism for disliking a companies **business strategy** is just so fucking insane

Briana Boston faces terrorism charges and CEOs are getting free therapy

Briana Boston is a 42 year old mother of three from Florida who is under house arrest for expressing her frustration at her insurance (which she PAYS for) who denied her claim. She owns ZERO guns and doesn't have a criminal record.

She was originally held in prison for $100,000 bail. They have not dropped the charges and she is under house arrest even after widespread backlash.

They are trying to charge her with terrorism. They want her to spend 15 years in prison.

They are calling her a Luigi Mangione copycat. As if she killed someone. She made a indirect, not at all credible threat.

Meanwhile...

I want every woman who has ever faced threats online, stalking, etc to bring this Briana Boston up at every opportunity. Every time you were told by police that there was nothing they could do, know that they not only CAN do something, but they WILL do something, just not for you.

i think theyre less bigoted because it would be impossible to get mad at a community that has so many queer people

I feel like folks talking like Tumblr is the last bastion of reason on the Internet are forgetting that the owner of Tumblr is demonstrably cut from the same cloth as Zuckerberg and Musk. Tumblr's moderation policies aren't less bigoted, they're just less competently implemented.

every human should be "humanized", not having people be humanized is how you get billionares going "ehh its just 1000 people that died in the mine collapse, send the next 1000 in!"

They're trying so hard to make this a culture war thing instead of a class consciousness moment.

i see so many hitler trump connections, but for some reason this one hit the hardest, idk why

Trump is appointing three washed-up actors as "ambassador to Hollywood" in order to bring back the "Golden Age of Hollywood". Which has historical precedent: there was an ambassador to Hollywood in the Golden Age, too. His name was Georg Gyssling and he was sent by Hitler to monitor the activities of Hollywood studios. To make sure their films didn't say anything anti-Nazi, resulting in many attempts at anti-fascist films being shut down by the Hays Code. Just a fun historical Hollywood fact there

they act like he scammed millions and billions of dollars from terminally ill people.

Why do they keep accidentally making him look like the coolest person alive don’t they want us to hate him

Jeb minecraft?!

Last name politicians

Trump

DeSantis

Haley

Biden

Warren

Klobuchar

First name politicians

Kamala

Bernie

Pete

Hillary

Jeb

hey i dont think thats not made by a grocery store, i think thats made by ØKO, who are the people who over-see food labeling (if something is ecologically good, if the company is treating animals right on farms, etc) this WILL be on all biological products (that are european ofc)

Wow I knew a lot of people in Denmark want to boycott America but I had no idea it was widespread enough for our main grocery store chains to do this. People are ANGRY at Trump like I’ve never seen before.

i know its gonna be unpopular, but imma say it, this is in the same vain as when north korea takes your pass port.

So, in Brazilian, USAmerican, and LGBT+ politics news, transgender Brazilian congresswoman Erika Hilton has received from the USA a visa marking her gender as male.

Hilton canceled a trip she was going to make to the US this month, where she was going to participate on Saturday (12) in a panel at the Brazil Conference, and says she will take action against US President Donald Trump at the UN (United Nations) because she considers the case to be transphobic and disrespectful of her Brazilian civil records.

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holy shit "the emperor has no clothes" is so fucking accurate, even more specifically were living in the joke version of that story where everyone also follows his fashion

(bassicly its an h. c. anderson story about a king that has a pair of clothes makers come and demand hefty price for a piece of clothes thats invisible to stupid people, and when the king sees that... well he couldnt see it he got scared thinking he was stupid and bought it. and the king wore it with pride, and everyone knew that it was invisible to stupid people, but only when one little kid piped up and said "but the emperor has no clothes" and well, there was no clothes, the emperor was in fact naked).

the story is about the fear of looking stupid sometimes over-rules the need to point out that the emperor has no clothes (that the president has no power to break amendments) [even when you're "high class", smarter], but we DO need to point out when the emperor has no clothes, because thats the only way we keep him from going around town naked.

oh yeah and the "joke version" of it everyone followed his example and took off their clothes as well to follow his fashion, which is even more accurate, but more in a comedic sense.

Can anybody give these old-ass Democrats protest lessons? They're acting like they're still living in pre-2015 politics when the GOP gave a shit and wasn't deranged.

A member gets up and starts shouting: All get up and shout with him.

Don't walk out: MAKE them carry you all out, not shutting up the entire time. I'm serious, go limp, be dead weight.

Putin's Puppet says a provable lie: Everyone chant "LIE" in unison for a solid minute instead of holding pitiful little signs in front of a man who can't read above a 3rd grade level.

Have someone who knows ASL sitting with you, interpreting everything in full view.

If you're gonna hold signs, make them BIG like you're actually trying to do something. Have them in multiple languages.

Make other signs that say clever or cutting things that will make him rage for days. "DOESN'T OLD TRUMP LOOK TIRED?" or "PUPPET PRESIDENT" or "EVERYONE IS FACT-CHECKING THIS SPEECH TRUMP DIDN'T WRITE" or "THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES" or his current tanking approval rating next to a laughing emoji.

Make a stink every day in congress, throw as many bills as you can on the floor even if they go nowhere, look like you're trying.

Have someone, idk maybe someone you actually want to boost for President in 3 gd years, be your voice of opposition in the media, loudly complaining and telling the facts, every single day. Let the people know you're there!

How hard is this? There's probably better suggestions than mine if they actually hired seasoned protestors or behaviorists/psychologists or even the biggest teenage troll they can find on a messageboard.

The Emperor Has No Clothes. So fucking act like it.

i am shit scared, i know i live in denmark where people are sane, but denmark has had its history of banning random ass shit (they banned religous face coverings for women???(only affected 24 people or so) they banned a specific brand of hot noodles???(i think the ban didnt end up happening) they also banned ferrets (that was just one person that did that) but still im shit scared)

i know its just learned that from people saying that, but i like to think it remembers what they change about it.

This is just very funny to me.

argueing over peoples rights because of the definition of a word is fucking crazy. just because "pee pee poo poo" is spelled like that doesnt mean i get to put it in the law that any 3 year old should be bombed on sight, just because they say "pee pee pee poo", even though most people are already starting to say "pee pee pee poo" instead of "pee pee poo poo"

i watched that "who is luigi mangione?" so-called documentary, and i just straight up couldnt make it through it, because even though they couldve matched ten deaths from UHC for every word of luigi, they didnt, instead focusing about how he didnt really like capitalism, and taking the most extreme quotes-of-his

when they finnaly brought up the ceo, they just said "he was an innovative guy"

5 minutes of his injury, 10 seconds of how they denied his pain medicine, 10 minutes of his friends going "i cant believe hes done this", 10 minutes of glazing brain thwompson, 20 minutes of "this guy was a brutal murderer who hated capitalism and loved communism"

to have a button that says "deny life" and one that says "lose five cents", and clicking the deny life button is to kill

where is luigi now i wonder? probably held in a "temporary" containment cell, not even letting him speak to a judge. hes propably dead to be honest.

Several documentaries publically treating Luigi Mangione as guilty before his trial even started got released over the past 2 months.

Here's the billion dollar companies behind them.

there is no difference between 400 billion and 401 billion, yet giving that billion out to employees will WILDLY improve their quality of life

terfs include biology in politics, but not psychology in biology, even though the brain and body are deeply inter-twined, but politics and biology are only inter-twined in aryan ideas.

terfs use basic biology, we use complex biology and basic ethics.

"i like the outro of "piss on carpet", like it looks like "piss on carpet" said it"

-piss on carpet

lions are very mean and like jellyfish

tiny fish eating big hamborger, attacking it like how a little kid punches adults

imagine me eating a very delicious burger

british/ireland accent but very kids-cartoon-but-still-an-adult-saying-it curious tone voice, and really stretching the vowels before any "ou" sounds.

pirate voice: there's a beautiful person out there reading this post, I can feel it in me bones

mailman voice: I'm curious, what did you make me sound like?

i think the only way to show terf's irony is via greentext

>"men are going to be in womens toilets!"

>forces ftm trans people into female toilets

>"men in womens sports!"

>ignores studies that mtf trans people have no bonus in female only sports

>"im doing it for the kids!"

>kicks out trans children from sports they like (its not even college football or anything, its like 11 year olds getting kicked out from a school club they participate in)

>"im doing it for womens rights!"

>petitions for cops to legally strip search random people on suspicions they are trans

>"LGB rights!"

>inforces anti-freedom-of-expression ideas

would you still have the same depth and wideness though🤔

What if I were one inch tall

Stolen from reddit kjjjj

twitters nieche is having "common sense", tumblrs nieche is having common sense

tf is an ar tit?

Look Up

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I don't usually dabble in realism - but this was a gift for someone very meaningful in my life. And some things just deserve to be painted as they are.

the sheer de-humanification of trans people into "men who want to be women" is just disgusting, and it makes me mad because you cant tell anyone to go meet up with a trans person, because theyll just say no and keep spewing the rhetoric, and only seeing trans people through this filter that is twitter, that only outputs not "normal" trans ladies (which also dis-includes trans men because they dont align with their idea of trans people).

"fuck you, you peice of kill, shit yourself" awwww almost had it

First time sending hate mail kinda nervous

Come on everyone! lets cheer him on!

i dont even think its sexual harassment anymore, its just a kink done by an unknown person at that point.

can I sexually harass you or is that not OK?

I feel like you can solve this conundrum out on your own.

communism is an optimally worse system. nazism is an optimally worse and incredibly evil system

finnaly, the homosexual version of "kiss your bro's good night, no homo"

I kissed my best friend but it’s okay because she’s lesbian and I’m a gay man which means we don’t like eachother

Whatever man

i mean god is against sex right? so is god just asexual?

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