Anti-trans activists release database flagging hospitals providing youth gender-affirming care [State Policy Network]

October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Do No Harm, a coalition of anti-trans doctors, nurses, and medical professionals, released a database of all the hospitals and medical centers in the U.S. that provide gender-affirming care for trans youth today.

Anti-trans activists release database flagging hospitals providing youth gender-affirming care

Wait until they find out about this!

The organization’s executive director, Kristina Rasmussen, previously was chief of staff to former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, and served as president of the Illinois Policy Institute [State Policy Network], a conservative think tank, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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It won a $250,000 award last year called the Gregor Peterson Prize. Its previous recipients include the Center for American Liberty, led by Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign and who is representing Cole in her lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente over gender-transition treatments she now says she regrets. The prize was announced in December at a summit held by the American Legislative Exchange Council [State Policy Network], a prominent provider of conservative model legislation.

Document: Atlas Network

Social Media Physician Endorsements Raise Prickly Ethical Questions

July 23, 2024July 23, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In 2022, 28 U.S. physicians endorsing drugs or devices on X (previously Twitter) made nearly $1.5 million from companies who make these products, a cross-sectional study found.

Social Media Physician Endorsements Raise Prickly Ethical Questions

LGBTQ community sounds alarm bells over Vance

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

LGBTQ community sounds alarm bells over Vance

In addition to a history of anti-LGBTQ statements, the Ohio Republican is the primary sponsor of at least two pieces of federal legislation threatening to sharply roll back transgender rights, including one proposal that aims to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors nationwide.

That bill, the Senate version of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) Protect Children’s Innocence Act, would charge health care providers who violate it with a Class C felony, punishable by more than a decade in prison. It would also prevent institutions of higher education from providing instruction about gender-affirming care and cut funding for health plans that cover treatment.

Transgender kids rarely get gender-affirming surgeries — in fact, cisgender children are much more likely to get them, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Neoreactionaries

Cis boys get gender-affirming surgeries more often than trans minors

July 18, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Transgender kids rarely get gender-affirming surgeries — in fact, cisgender children are much more likely to get them, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Cis boys get gender-affirming surgeries more often than trans minors

Unlearned AIDS Lessons for Covid

October 10, 2021October 10, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Unlearned AIDS Lessons for Covid

The CDC’s own epidemiologists objected to this message, arguing that resources should be focused on those at risk, as the Journal reported in 1996. But they were overruled by superiors who decided, on the advice of marketing consultants, that presenting AIDS as a universal threat was the best way to win attention and funding. By those measures, the campaign succeeded. Polls showed that Americans became terrified of being infected, and funding for AIDS prevention surged—much of it squandered on measures to protect heterosexuals.
My note: Reminds me of Edward Bernays.

Fauci warned of ‘unintended consequences’ of ‘draconian’ quarantines during 2014 Ebola outbreak