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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

A queer teenager from Nebraska, where lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care last year, responds to Pamela Paul. "I fear for my future. I fear for my friends and their future."

To the Editor:
Re "Gender Dysphoric Kids Deserve Better Care" by Pamela Paul
(column, Feb. 4):
I'm an L.G.B.T.Q.+ teenager. Ms. Paul cites stories of
detransitioners as if they are damning to the practice of gender-
affirming care as a whole. Not all detransitioners regret their
transition, and not all transgender people will medically transition
An overwhelming 98 percent of people who started their transition
care as youths continue into adulthood, per a 2022 study from the
Netherlands published in The Lancet.
Speaking from experience, my peers and friends who have
undergone medical transitions have never "regretted" it, and after
beginning care, their quality of life greatly improved. If Ms. Paul
wants to demonize a procedure with a high rate of regret, she
should look toward knee replacement, where one in five people end
updissatisfied.
By writing this article, Ms. Paul further stigmatizes health care for
transgender people. Transition care may be good for some people.
It may not b

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 10/02/2024

It’s the whole damn “abortion regret” silent no more propaganda all over again. You’d think the media would stop allowing this shit under the guise of “balance” after how it got used to take out abortion rights.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Especially given its the same people writing the bans and the talking points www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

newyorker.com

The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe

Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it wants religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws—and is going after trans rights.

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