Joseph Riparian 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 20, 2023

If you're cis, I'd like you to read this article and learn that Missouri is about to enact a full ban on transition healthcare for transgender people. The deadline is April 27.

No cisgender person I've shared this with has had any idea that this is a ban, not a regulation - the requirements are impossible to meet.

I would also ask that you share this information with three other cis people today, preferably ones in or near #Missouri .

Thank you. (Update: The ban is temporarily restrained until July 24, with a new hearing about a preliminary injunction on July 20. The ban cannot be implemented until then. But the Missouri GOP is determined to ban youth trans care and sports participation, and keep allowing literal children to get married.) (Update late May: The Missouri legislature ended trans healthcare coverage for ALL minors, all people on Medicaid, and all incarcerated people. This is an absolute disaster - it means that all anyone needs to do to restrict trans healthcare for paying adults is to declare us criminals - but it is at least not a flagrant violation of the lawmaking process like Bailey's "emergency rule" was.)

https://gizmodo.com/missouri-trans-gender-affirming-care-ban-adults-order-1850337858

Emergency Rule Seriously Restricts Trans Health Care For Adults, Minors in Missouri

Via a sweeping emergency rule, the state's Attorney General has made it nearly impossible for trans people in Missouri to receive standard medical treatment.

Gizmodo
Show threadMsSmartyPantsApr 20, 2023
@holyramenempire
These same haters are the people who give permits & take cutbacks from polluters even though (among other things) they are known to disrupt hormones & they can cause hermaphroditism and unambiguous genitalia. They harrass trans kids and other victims to deflect from anybody considering their possible part in the issue. Why don't trans advocates expose the chemical industry donors who (could) be responsible for the "increase" in kids' need for gender confirmation?
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Show threadMsSmartyPantsApr 20, 2023
@holyramenempire
I apologize for my previous toot because I know it is completely natural that a certain percentage of the human race doesn't (biologically) fit in one or either gender.
I just want to suggest a counter attack that might effectively shut them up, which they will do if their money is threatened.
Anti-trans nuts can't bring themselves to accept that nowadays we have the ability to correct the mistake when a doctor or parents impose the wrong identity on a person. (2/3)
Show threadMsSmartyPantsApr 20, 2023
@holyramenempire
This article discusses:
Do EDC (endocrine-disrupting chemicals) exposures cause sexual organ malformations, stunted reproductive development? Do fetal exposures to EDCs alter sex phenotypes? Do they change later gender-related neurobiological characteristics & behaviors...?
Trans ppl could win against them, bcs they can't prove that their chemicals DIDN'T cause gender ambiguity because it does in animals, fish & insects.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281309/
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Are EDCs Blurring Issues of Gender?

PubMed Central (PMC)
Show threadWeird Mustard (offline)Apr 21, 2023
@MsSmartyPants I get your point but this is harmful in other ways. Trans identities have been around for as long as humans. We dont need any chemicals to develop our own identities and for most trans ppl i know including myself that means as soon as you are conscious you know If you're a boy, girl or none of it. Making a point that having a certain gender is probably just a defect is an offense.
Show threadMsSmartyPants
@senfex
Thank you. As a grandparent of beautiful queer grandchildren and trans in-laws,
I wanted my toot to evoke responses from knowledgeable people. I'm grateful.
May 11, 2023 at 1:18pmWeb