• California ex-trans teen backs Florida ban on Medicaid funds for transg

    From Johnny@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 12 08:16:46 2022
    By Tyler O'Neil
    Published July 10, 2022

    A California teen girl who once identified as transgender and took
    hormones and underwent surgery to affirm such an identity spoke out in
    favor of a Florida rule blocking Medicaid funds from paying for medical interventions for gender dysphoria.

    "I really didn’t understand all of the ramifications of any of the
    medical decisions that I was making," Chloe Cole, 17, said at a public
    hearing Friday. She said she was medically transitioned from ages 13 to
    16, taking so-called puberty-blocking drugs and testosterone, and
    undergoing surgery to remove her breasts at age 15. "I was unknowingly physically cutting off my true self from my body, irreversibly and
    painfully."

    "I don’t know if I’ll be able to fully carry a child, and I might be at increased risk for certain cancers, mainly cervical cancer," Cole said
    in a separate private meeting with Florida Surgeon General Joseph
    Ladapo Friday, footage of which Ladapo posted on Twitter Sunday. "And
    because I do not have my breasts, … I am not able to breastfeed
    whatever future children I have."

    "That realization, actually, was one of the biggest things that led to
    me realizing that this was not the path that I should have taken," Cole
    added.

    https://www.foxnews.com/health/california-ex-trans-teen-backs-florida-ban-medicaid-funds-transgender-medical-interventions

    It wasn't this girls fault her life was ruined, it was her parents that
    ruined her life.

    Why can't democrats understand that a 13 year old child can't make life changing decisions, and their parents should be prevented by federal
    law from making such decisions for them.

    Can you imagine allowing your daughter to have her breasts removed at
    fifteen years old?

    The doctor that removed that child's breasts should lose his license to practice medicine in the US.

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