Earlier this month, Maine lawmakers gave medical providers permission to perform transgender surgeries and other gender-related procedures on 16- and 17-year-olds without the approval of their parents.
Now, Democratic representatives have proposed a bill that would enable doctors to provide these services to all children, extending to minors from out of state. The bill would also protect Maine healthcare providers from any external legal resistance.Portland’s local news broadcast, WGME, says the bill “would allow the state to take temporary emergency jurisdiction over minors who can't get gender-affirming care in other states. The care would have to be considered medically necessary.
With all that we know about the repercussions of transgender operations, the dozens of traumatic stories from de-transitioners about the irreversible truth of the process, can’t we conclude that these medical procedures may be the opposite of “care?”When asked what she thought of the bill, Aspen Ruhlin, who works at a feminist-focused women’s healthcare clinic in Bangor, Maine, stated that “children are people, they are not property, they deserve to have autonomy over their bodies and...
This idea, that we can safely ignore biological and social reality, epitomizes the modern libertarian notion that people exist in a vacuum. It appears that children should exist in a vacuum, too, despite depending on the continual care and instruction of their guardians.
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