A federal judge says that DeSantis was spreading lies when he called gender-affirming care “mutilation.”
This year has been all downhill for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. His presidential aspirations are going up in smoke thanks to his complete lack of charisma and general campaign incompetence. His losing war against Disney is costing Florida taxpayers millions of dollars. Now a federal court all but called DeSantis a liar for the way he justified his ban on medical care for trans youth.
DeSantis repeatedly claimed that the law was necessary to prevent youth from being “mutilated.” In just one example, he went after one reporter who questioned him about it when he signed the bill last May.
“And when you talk to people and I know, like people in your industry will dress it up with a euphemism, and they’ll say it’s health care to cut off the private parts of a 14 or 15 year old,” DeSantis said. “That is not health care. That is mutilation.”
Tell that to U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle.
I never said I supported the laws blocking access to blockers and hormones. You’re the one who read more into my comment than what was there.
You need to clarify your point then, keeping in mind that you are in a thread about the state of Florida blocking access to puberty blockers and hormones.
No, you need to not make assumptions. The comment I was responding to was discussing circumcision, and had nothing to do with blockers or hormones. I intentionally only brought up surgery.
Anything else was your assumption.
Alex, what is “context”?
The context was the comment chain that at no point mentioned anything but surgery.
If anyone took that to mean I was against all gender affirming care, they made a baseless assumption.
Your comment and several others you’ve made throughout this thread paint children as fickle, compare medical care to tattoos, and completely ignore that to even get treatments like blockers and cross-sex hormones is a multi-year process with a team of physicians, endocrinologists and therapists.
Hell, if you want to talk about surgery alone, the adult requirements are documentation from two therapists that you have persistent dysphoria, along with your primary physician before a surgeon will even schedule for a consult, from there, you go on a wait list that can span multiple years. For under 18s, the process is even more rigorous, requiring longer documentation, and wait lists often push back care past 18.
Put simply, I don’t believe you.
I don’t care if you don’t believe me. You’re drawing the wrong conclusions because you’re expecting me to be against hormones and blockers. You’re almost using that argument as a strawman.
You are wrong. All I said was children should wait until they’re an adult before undergoing life altering irreversible surgery. Full stop.