Kentucky bill would ban physicians from giving medically necessary care to transgender youth

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HRT/SRS for gender dysphoria is only "medicine" under a radical activist definition.  There is no other body integrity disorder we "treat" by mutilating or chemically altering normal human anatomy.  If gender dysphoria is a disease of the mind, then it should be treated as such.   

Making access to HRT/SRS the end-all, be-all of trans advocacy is a weird erasure of the overwhelming majority of trans people, both today and historically, who never medically transition.  It's also a fundamental betrayal of the supposedly-axiomatic principle that gender be decoupled from sex.  If the two are distinct, then why do we need to change people's sexual anatomy in order to affirm their gender? 

We are quickly barreling towards a future where gender non-conforming young people are told they ought to reject their bodies in order to better live-up to traditional gender stereotypes.  For some kids it is already here.  That's a future that's worse-off for everybody, queer or not. 

Lol @ you talking about what radical activists erasing the majority of trans people. Nobody has said all trans people transition or should transition — but when we talk about how the people that don't transition are valid because gender and sex are different, we're told that we're "erasing science" or whatever. Access to trans healthcare is of particular interest to trans people because that right is under attack, but now the sane people who say distinguishing between gender and sex is anti-science tell us that we're anti-science and also reinforcing gender stereotypes.

The point is, trans people can't win. Trans people can't win because people like you don't want trans people to win. You want trans people's existence to tied to a leash on the terms of cis people, and that leash also doesn't include trans minors, nonbinary people, trans athletes, trans activists, trans public restroom users, or any other type of trans people whose existence you can carve out in order to limit the number of trans people out there. Man up and admit that all you want is to marginalize trans people out of existence instead of pretending you give an aardvark's arse about gender stereotypes; ditto to the liberals hiding behind "I support you, but leave the kids out of it and don't play sports."

This is a very antiquated and somewhat homophobic thing to say.