outcome, especially when studies have shown high levels of "Ideation" and attempts...as much as 40% of those suffering from Gender Dysphoria.
Extreme right wing opponents of worldwide accepted treatment protocols are "Doing Harm" when they try to obstruct them. Baron needs to review his Hippocratic Oath, while also reviewing the entire set of circumstances.
...from the yesterday's attached National Catholic Reporter article...
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"Health care for transgender people has long been supported by every major medical association and leading world health authority, across specialties and patient lifespan, because it is safe, long-studied and prescribed. This form of medical care is life-giving, even life-saving," Ross Murray, GLAAD Media Institute vice president, told NCR.
"Despite what extremists claim, this care looks different for each person," said Powell of Human Rights Campaign.
The Biden administration has voiced support for gender-affirming care for transgender minors, while opposing surgery for them. Harris' campaign website said she would support federal legislation to "enshrine anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQI+ Americans in health care, housing, education and more into law."
When she ran for president in 2019, Harris filled out a questionnaire from the American Civil Liberties Union where she said she would use her executive authority to ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care had access to gender-affirming care, including "all necessary surgical care."
"It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition," Harris wrote on that questionnaire. As California's attorney general, Harris also noted that she had pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgeries to state inmates.
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Link: https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholicvote-ads-claim-harris-backs-tax-funded-gender-surgeries-children
