What is gender-affirming medical care for transgender children? Here's what you need to know.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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The legal fight comes months after Texas lawmakers failed to pass legislation that sought broader bans on transition-related medical care for transgender kids, including gender-affirming care that is widely accepted by leading health care groups.

Medical experts say Republican lawmakers’ rhetoric falsely claims that doctors and parents are allowing children to go through irreversible medical treatments.

Leading health care organizations in Texas — including the Texas Medical Association, Texas Counseling Association and Texas Pediatric Society — say gender-affirming care is the best way to provide care to transgender children. They’re not alone: the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and others agree — and have for years.

Here’s what you need to know about gender-affirming care, which lies at the heart of the brewing legal and political battles in Texas.

This article contains a great discussion of the types of care that are being attacked by Greg and Ken Paxton

[RKP5637]

1. Greg and Ken Paxton are damn ignorant fools and should not be in politics. Many republicans

are absolute perverts and can not keep their hands/minds off the kids.

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2. This is another instance where science is tossed out the window in favor of ideology.

It's no different than the asshats at hobby lobby claiming birth control pills are abortifacients. Just because you believe they are, doesn't mean they are.

Your religious belief does not outweigh the science of the matter.

They try to regulate morality and human nature and punish those who fit their image. It's certainly immoral and should be illegal to do what these people to do their neighbors.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

3. Gender-affirming care is life-saving care...

I know, Abbott and Paxton don't even think we're human, but, we are... And care such as this saves lives. Period. It's not abuse, it's love.

The only people abusing trans kids are Abbott and Paxton. They need to stay the hell out of our lives.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. That is clear

I read all of the article cited in the OP and all of the care described is or can be life saving.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

5. I have as well

First off, before I forget: My eternal thanks for all the time you take to find and post such articles to try to enlighten and educate on this issue, as well as a number of other subjects here on DU.

I know I look back on what I've gone through over the decades, and wish we were as enlightened on trans issues then as we are today. Knowing my own struggles, which have included self-harm, I can only imagine how much easier things have been, and how much less pain there would've been, if I grew up during a better time to be a young trans person.

It's why I'm thankful for all the articles you post, and why I speak up so much - in responsible to articles you post, as well as others. I don't want the trans youth of today to go through the turmoil I did. So, if we can protect them and give them the care they need now? I'm all for it.

It's just a shame that so many like the goons running Texas are so obsessed with doing the opposite.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. My youngest child is LGBTQ and has a number of trans friends

What Greg and Paxton are doing truly sickens me

[IngridsLittleAngel]

7. I'm so glad your child has a parent like you

Being LGBTQ is tough enough in this world.. But having good, caring, supportive parents make such a huge difference... You're awesome

And I imagine many of us are sickened by Paxton and Abbott.. Because they could truly do things to make the world a better place for LGBTQ's - especially the youth.. Instead, they do the opposite.

[vercetti2021]

8. It is life saving

These fucking sickos need to stop being obsessed with a child's genitals