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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

I think what will really finally end it will be detrans lawsuits with payouts that mean insurers back away from physicians providing these drugs and surgeries. Once medical malpractice insurance goes away it all collapses.

Still the EO is helpful and better (and simply more) journalistic attention is very helpful too.

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Carol Dansereau's avatar

Is there no way for an Act of Congress to ban pediatric sex procedures? My hazy understanding of the federal ban on female genital mutilation is that it was ruled unconstitutional, but a later US law at least banned FGM when a connection to interstate commerce could be demonstrated (the cutter or the person being cut crosses state lines, etc.) Is that right and does that mean that federal legislation regarding pediatric sex change could only protect children who cross state lines?

Or can a case be made for a federal ban since benefits from messing with kids' bodies are not established while harms are obvious and huge. I mean, they are literally taking healthy bodies and rendering them dysfunctional, infertile, etc. which is the opposite of what medicine should do. Iatrogenic harm does occur for some other treatments, e.g. cancer treatments, but in those cases a physical ailment s being addressed. Pediatric sex change really is something entirely different from and contrary to medical care: massive physical harm without established benefits. Can a child's right to not be sterilized without medical benefit be asserted as part of our case?

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