At the urging of conservative advocacy groups, Republican legislators in more than a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on transgender young people. One batch of bills would bar doctors from providing them certain gender-related medical treatment; another batch would bar trans students from participating on school sports teams of the gender they identify with. The proposed laws, if enacted, “would bring devastating harms to the transgender community,” said Chase Strangio, a transgender-rights lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. He warned that the medical bans — now pending in Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota and likely to surface elsewhere — could trigger suicides among young people yearning to undergo gender transition.
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YES I WOULD JUST LIKE TO COMMENT ON YOUR STORY OF TRANSGENDERED YOUTH. IF I HAD JUST BEEN TOLD THAT I WAS A TRANSGENDERED YOUTH BACK IN THE DAY BOY WOULD MY LIFE BE DIFFERENT TODAY, BECAUSE I WOULD PROBABLY HAVE SOME BREASTS OUT TO WHO KNOWS WHERE, AND MY PENIS AND TESTICLES WOULD PROBABLY BE HISTORY IN MY LIFE AS WELL. THANK YOU FOR FINALLY LETTING ME GET THAT OFF MY CHEST.
YOURS VERY TRULY,
DAISY JEAN HEISE (OR JUST PLAIN OLD DJHEISE)