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I just read the new “Gender Dysphoria” report from the Department of Health and Human Services. And I genuinely don’t have enough middle fingers for it.

They’re calling it a “review of evidence.” What it really is? A thinly-veiled manifesto against gender-affirming care. It downplays suicide risk. It discredits medical consensus. It treats affirming care like reckless experimentation. And worst of all, it pretends to care about kids while laying the groundwork to destroy their futures.

This isn’t some fringe paper from a right-wing think tank. This is the federal government publishing a blueprint for denying life-saving care to trans youth and calling it “compassionate.”

They frame puberty blockers and hormones like we’re handing out poison. They paint therapists who affirm gender identity as dangerous. They quote detransitioners like they’re the norm and completely ignore the voices of actual trans people living full, joyful lives because of the care they received.

They pretend to be neutral. It’s not. It’s biased as hell. It’s written in that smug, sanitized language meant to sound objective while dripping with moral panic. It’s the same garbage we’ve seen in state bans, just scaled up and printed on official HHS letterhead.

I’m so tired of watching people who don’t know a single trans kid in real life act like experts on their bodies. Tired of watching politicians use “but what if they regret it” as a reason to legislate kids into trauma. Tired of the erasure, the gaslighting, the bullshit dressed up as care.

This report will be weaponized. It will be cited in court. It will be used to justify bans, lawsuits, and cruelty. And when that happens, HHS doesn’t get to say they didn’t know. They will have lit the match.

So yeah, I’m angry. And if you care about trans kids, you should be too.

Read it. Talk about it. Don’t let it disappear under the radar.

Because this isn’t just about healthcare. It’s about whether this country believes trans youth are worth protecting at all.

And right now, the answer coming from the top is no.

But ours has to be louder. And it has to be: We will not let you erase them.


Link to the HHS Report

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[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This isn’t some fringe paper from a right-wing think tank.

Isn't it though, basically?

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

It has the veneer of credibility

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Well, being real, we all knew this was coming, and it's at a point where protest isn't going to be enough to fix it.

You can't have a surge in fascist, bigoted power without the target being painted on the groups used to drive fear and support. There's only one proven way to stop that kind of movement after it takes the reins of power.