The leftists over at National Public Radio have their panties in a wad, fearing boys may soon lose the right to become girls.
“Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth,” is the headline on a story just published by none other than NPR.
The NPR (Nongendered Pubic Reassignment) folks carried a story as wordy as the Magna Carta quoting a mother in a tizzy, afraid her son will be denied his alleged preference to become a girl.
Under threat by President Trump of losing federal health-care funding if they don’t ban “gender-affirming” procedures, hospitals in some Democrat states are dropping gender care, while others are joining gender-obsessed parents fighting to overrule Trump.
After all, the question is often more about whether it’s actually the parents conflicted over gender rather than their kids.
Maine is among 19 blue states that joined a federal lawsuit against Trump late last year designed to allow them to continue prescribing drugs for, and doing “gender-reassignment” surgery on, teens wanting to change their birth-assigned sex.
“Gender-affirming” medical care involves prescriptions for things like puberty blockers or hormones, as well as surgery in some cases.
The federal case is similar to a lawsuit that the highest court in Colorado began hearing arguments on earlier this week.
In that case, a hospital fearing loss of federal funds is arguing it has no legal obligation to provide kids with drugs and surgery to change their genders.
The hospital has won the first round in a lower-court ruling now on appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court.
On the other side are parents claiming discrimination in behalf of kids claiming they want to change their sex afraid they’ll lose the chance to transition from one to the other.
Maine, among a minority of states with “gender-affirming” shield laws, is anxiously monitoring the legal developments in both cases.
A ruling in either one could set a precedent on whether boys can decide they want to be girls and vice versa.
The debate over supposed gender confusion is on the front burner in another Maine legal forum – the ballot box.
The state’s voters will be deciding on a referendum later this year whether to ban boys from girls locker-rooms.
The state’s term-limited Democrat governor, Janet Mills, has famously gone toe-to-toe with Trump as she fights to publicize her liberal bona fides.
The gender debate comes amid a U.S. Senate race in Maine where Mills is up against a popular primary opponent the polls show is far the favorite.
Graham Platner has argued that the ballot referendum aimed at banning fake boys from participating in female school sports is a distraction from issues such as healthcare and taxes.
But Platner – unlike Mills – hasn’t made it a campaign-platform centerpiece worth dying over.
The outcomes of the referendum and pending legal cases surrounding gender are front and center across Maine politics, including in the upcoming governor’s election.
Parents Wanting Their Teen Boys To Have Breasts Fretting Over Precedential Gender Lawsuits
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Why is it people think it is ok for a teen to take hormones their body was not meant to have? It seems like child abuse or neglect to allow your children to do this. Let’s encourage MH issues, not try to correct them? We are raising a society of mental defects, I just hope i am not the only one extremely concerned with how all of this will turn out. God save us, please.
People who want their teen boys to have breasts should go live somewhere else .
They do not bring quality of life to the people of Maine .
Go bother someone else .
We don’t need you or your kid here .
The insanity continues in this Bastion of insanity.
Go to CA, they are now giving free gender surgery to homeless illegal immigrants. I just wonder how many of the voters in CA realize this is going on…….