New poll finds strong majority opposes gender-affirming care bans for trans minors

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New poll finds strong majority opposes gender-affirming care bans for trans minors - LGBTQ Nation
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I think the people surveyed agree with you here. They're saying that they're opposed to the surgery, but they don't want to ban the surgeries even though they oppose them.

Minors aren't getting any surgeries.

Gender affirming care for trans kids involves seeing psychiatrists, social transitioning, and, if they're lucky, puberty blockers till they're old enough to decide whether they want to medically and surgically transition.

And that’s a completely different issue that’s totally separate from the anti trans laws being pushed by the right wing today.

You didn't get their point. The only children who are getting gender reassignment surgery are the ones who right wing doctors are trying to assign a gender to, despite medical consensus that it's unnecessary, he's calling the right wing misinformed and hypocritical

I agree with what you are saying here, I’m just not sure that was the previous posters point.

It may have been, but it reads to me like they are just saying “nuh uh” to the person above them.

volodya_ilich is correct! but also I think it would be useful to use this energy on both sides to prevent gender assignment surgeries on infants (even if the right does not realize the context?)

They need to be informed that surgery alleviates gender dysphoria and saves tens of thousands in the long run from poor mental health to lessen productivity.

The healthcare system should cover every gender affirming care surgery available.

Don't accept their definition shifting. They wrap surgery into "gender affirming care" then say young children get GAC to make people think they're regularly performing surgery on 12 year olds. Hormone blockers are GAC too.