Pain, Confusion and Compassion: How the US Has Reached a Trans ‘tipping point’; Trump Pledges to Ban Transgender Athletes From Playing in Competitive Women’s Sports

Pain, confusion and compassion: How the US has reached a trans ‘tipping point’:

The past three years have been painful for transgender-identified young people.

Republicans have blanketed the nation with bans on gender-transition treatments for minors, often pairing them with restrictions on trans bathroom access and sports participation.

The latter has become of national interest as athletes like Lia Thomas and Riley Gaines battle for each side in public.

These laws have descended many families into crisis and even drove some to flee to bluer states.

The years to come are expected to bring more turmoil for these vulnerable youths as the walls close in on pediatric gender medicine.

Most consequentially, the Supreme Court is poised to rule on the constitutionality of Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for treating gender-related distress in minors.

Oral arguments are set to begin on December 4 and legal experts expect the state will prevail.

The court’s decision could herald an end to pediatric gender-transition treatment in about two dozen states.

Blue states won’t be able to guarantee refuge, as access to these controversial interventions is expected to narrow even where they remain legal.

Stakeholders predict that, at a minimum, pediatric gender doctors will become far more cautious as this field is pummeled by lawsuits, subpoenas, and negative research reports.

These unrelenting forces could all but end pediatric gender-transition treatment nationwide in the years to come.

“Everything is on the line,” Chase Strangio, a trans-rights litigator at the ACLU, acknowledged on a recent podcast. --->READ MORE HERE

Trump pledges to ban transgender athletes from playing in competitive women’s sports:

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he has a simple plan to address concerns about transgender athletes participating in women’s sports: “You just ban it.”

Asked by a member of the all-female audience during a town hall on Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus” how he would address “the transgender issue in women’s sports,” Trump swiftly quipped that it was “such an easy question.”

“Everybody in the room and you know that answer, we’re not going to let it happen,” he said, noting the dangers involved with transgender athletes playing against women.

Trump then went on to reference a Thursday night incident in which a San Diego State University women’s volleyball player was hit in the face by an opponent who had transitioned from male to female, knocking the player down.

“I saw the slam, it was a slam. I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl in the head,” he said. “But other people, even in volleyball, they’ve been permanently — I mean, they’ve been really hurt badly. Women playing men.

“But you don’t have to do the volleyball. We stop it. We stop it. We absolutely stop it. You can’t have it.” --->READ MORE HERE

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