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Morgan Keller: On April 26, my friend Prisha testified in favor of this bill. Representative Beth Liston asked her if she was affirmed in her trans identity and medicalised in the state of Ohio. Prisha responded perfectly. "If you wait until you have a detransitioner from Ohio, someone is already hurt and you have failed."
My name is Morgan. I am the Ohio detransitioner that Prisha warned you about.
I’m 26 years old and was trans Identified for five years. In March of this year, after trying to ignore the doubt and regret that began to build around my transition, I woke up one morning with the realization that my trans identity was never about becoming my most genuine self or living my life authentically. Instead, it was a desperate, last-ditch attempt to become someone else to escape my unidentified trauma and body and mental health issues.
When I started exploring gender ideology, my life was in shambles. I was in an emotionally manipulative lesbian relationship, I was isolating myself in my apartment and drinking regularly. I wasn’t attending my classes or socialising normally, I had become captivated by the idea that my female body was fundamentally wrong and seduced by the prospect that there was something that I could do about it.
When I sought out help for my complicated feelings towards my female sex, I was affirmed, which is to say I was put on life altering cross-sex hormones with minimal questioning or treatment of my underlying issues. At 21, a license practitioner in the state of Ohio wrote me a prescription for medically unnecessary synthetic testosterone, and just one month after my 22nd birthday, I went under the knife for a double mastectomy based on the recommendation letter from a therapist who still holds an active license in the state. I sat with these practitioners for hours, describing how uncomfortable I was in my body, how disconnected I felt from myself and how hard it was to walk through the world as a masculine woman.
The nurse practitioner who prescribed me testosterone told me that I would transition beautifully and that no one would ever be able to tell that I had been born as a female. After a lifetime of body-image issues and an increasing desperation to become anybody but myself, that was like music to my ears.
I don’t believe that not transitioning was ever considered by my practitioners. I feel like once I walked into that gender clinic, medicalisation was the only option. I needed the practitioners that I trust it to help me make peace with my body, not firm my delusion that hormones and a cosmetic mastectomy might make me feel better. I needed them to just say no.
This week is the fifth anniversary of my first testosterone shot. I was told that this experimental medicalisation would save my life. My parents were made to believe that this was the only way to keep their daughter alive, healthy and happy. No practitioner bothered to dig deeper with me on why felt so disconnected from my female body, and why I thought giving myself an endocrine imbalance, amputating my healthy breasts and masquerading as a member of the opposite sex was such an appealing treatment plan. I can say with 100% certainty that this medicalisation only gave me new health problems and mental distress. I will never, ever legitimatise these experimental treatments as anything based on love or care for an individual.
Under the euphemistic guise of "life-saving gender affirming care," practitioners in our state have become enablers with their prescription pads. At its highest point, my testosterone levels were 11 times the maximum range for a female body. Is this really the standard of care that we want for our Ohioans?
When I realised that my medication was nothing more than a very elaborate placebo endorsed by multiple medical professionals, I made the immediate decision to detransition. It was all over. I quit testosterone cold turkey and endured four of the most brutal months of my life. I had no energy, I didn’t shower for almost 2 weeks, I would cry upwards of 10 times a day, shocked at what I’d been allowed to do to my body in such a vulnerable state with an underdeveloped brain.
I would lay in bed all day, sitting with the realisation that I would never be able to breastfeed children that I didn’t even know that I wanted at the time when I got my mastectomy. I didn’t know if those feelings would ever go away, so I started to make plans to commit suicide. My family was so worried that my parents made me go home, so they could make sure I was eating, bathing and sleeping.
I sent a letter to my prescribing practitioner detailing how much regret I felt, and all of the things I wish were different about the treatment I received, and she never replied. I had been working with that same therapist for seven years by the time I called her with my realisations about the issues underlying my decision to transition. I sent her list of everything that should have been treated instead of getting hormones and a mastectomy, and I will never forget hearing her tell me, "I failed you."
She told me that this was such a new field of psychology that modern medicine is still at the forefront of learning how to treat gender dysphoria. But isn’t that funny, because the current narrative says that this medicalisation is "settled science."
I couldn’t give informed consent at 21, so why are we pretending that children can do that? With this bill we can ensure that children in Ohio are protected from ever waking up and finding themselves in my position. I wish I never opened the Pandora’s box of gender ideology. I wish I’d been told by the practitioners that I trusted. I wish I could say that I’m the exception to the rule, but everybody in this room knows that that is false.
I come to you wearing the scars of this medical scandal asking you to please vote and support of House Bill 68 to protect Ohio’s children.
Thank you for listening.
Senator Kristina Roegner: Thank you for your testimony. Are there any questions? I do have one. You mentioned when you were 21 years old, you went in for the first time to a medical practitioner, and then started the treatments at that point. What was that... how many visits did it take, what was the discussion like, Was it really that quick or what did they ask you? What was that like?
Keller: I actually was the one to push back on them. I went in and they had such a long waiting list, you could just go in and see somebody below the main practitioner who is writing things at this clinic, you know, directing the program. And one of the doctors on the staff just said, "why don’t you start testosterone and see how you feel" And I was like, "no way." I wanted someone that I trust a little bit more to really help me discern if this was correct for me or not.
And I went to the clinic for the first time, I believe it was in June, and then six months later I was on hormones, and I think I went to the clinic three times.
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The thing that never happens keeps never happening.
Lawsuit incoming in 4, 3, 2...
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Stays Krunchy in Milk Episode 526: Cook Me A Cheetah!
Welcome to February and Black History Month! We start the ep showing love so some Black owned Restaurant’s in and around Cleveland but show particular love to a friend of ours and her people’s spot Brunchology in Bedford, OH. It’s a family-owned business and if you get down with Brunch and Brunch type foods give them a visit. Be patient, they are a big deal which means you aren’t the only one trying to get down with some great food but make sure you give them a visit and tell them we sent, not on some sponsorship shit, they really are our friends so we want them to know we all folk. We discuss the veto override of Ohio HB68 banning Gender Affirming care for minors and the fuckery of politicians as well as resources for those affected by it. Discussing the return of movies to North Olmstead, OH led us to discussing snacks and then stores, and then travel, it was, as always, really great. Ant saw a wild Turkey and his youngest simply did not believe it, so they recorded a discussion regarding local fauna. Box had a poor experience with his doctor but by the time we finished the discussion he was in a better place with it. Tee is learning how to edit video and getting better but by bit. We then get are AITA on before discussing our entertainment recs for the week.
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Ohio is quickly becoming the most restrictive state in the US for trans people. House Bill 68, which restricts, among other things, gender affirming care for minors, has already passed, and it is not the last, or even the worst, legislation trans people in Ohio are facing right now. New proposed administrative rules would ban trans healthcare outright under the age of 21, and make it so excessively difficult to access for anyone - it would require the approval of a bioethicist to be prescribed HRT, for instance - that it constitutes a de facto ban for everyone. I encourage everyone to read up on HB68 and the proposed rules, submit public comments on the Health Department administrative rules, and donate to the Trans Ohio emergency fund - with HB68 passed, its funds are already necessary and will only become more so.
Comments on the Health Department rules draft should be submitted to [email protected] no later than Monday, Feb. 5.
#x#i'm not someone who makes these posts but i've only seen one about hb68 not the new rules. and it was circulating bfore hb68 passed#transgender#ohio
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Trudy Ring at The Advocate:
A court in Ohio has granted a temporary restraining order keeping the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth as well as its ban on trans girls and women in female school sports from going into effect.
The order, issued Tuesday by the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, lasts for 14 days or until the hearing of the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction, whichever is sooner. The law, House Bill 68, was originally set to take effect April 24.
A lawsuit filed in March by two young trans people and their families argues that the law violates the Ohio Constitution because it deals with more than one subject — the health care and sports bans are contained in the same legislation. Ohio lawmakers passed it in January by overriding Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto.
“The combination of these two unrelated acts is unconstitutional because it violates the single-subject rule,” the lawsuit says. “Worse, the General Assembly ignored the pleas of the families that the Health Care Ban targets, who seek nothing more than freedom from government interference in their health care decision-making. It also ignored the widespread opposition of medical professionals who informed the General Assembly that the Ban would prohibit a critically important treatment — in fact, the only evidence-based treatment — for gender dysphoria in adolescents.”
In Moe v. Yost, an Ohio court temporarily halts gender-affirming care ban for trans youth bill HB68 from taking effect.
#Ohio#Gender Affirming Healthcare#Transgender Youth#Transgender Health#Transgender#Ohio HB68#Moe v. Yost#Mike DeWine
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Conservative Republican Rick Colby says he's as anti-woke as you can be. But he urges the Ohio General Assembly not to ban life-saving treatments for trans youth. His son is transgender, something he first realized at age five. Colby says this is not a political issue,
it's a medical issue. #gbt #gbtrights #transgender #genderaffirmingcare #ohiolegislature #hb68
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Anti-Trans Legislation: Feb 25-Mar 3 in Review
The following bills were introduced:
Two schooling bills, Florida S1320 and H1223, were pre-filed.
Georgia HB653, an under-18 healthcare ban, was introduced.
Iowa HSB208, a school-based bathroom bill, was introduced and passed in its subcommittee.
Iowa HB482, a school-based bathroom bill, was introduced and referred to the House Judiciary Committee.
Iowa HSB214, an under-18 healthcare ban, was introduced and had a House subcommittee hearing.
Iowa SSB1197, an under-18 healthcare ban, was introduced and had a subcommittee meeting.
Iowa HJR8 was introduced and referred to the House Judiciary Committee. This is a joint resolution attacking marriage.
Iowa HSB222, a schooling/parental rights bill, was introduced and referred to the House Education Committee yesterday.
Maine LD930, a sports ban bill that specifically targets trans girls, was introduced and referred to the Joint Judiciary Committee.
Missouri HB1332, a tax bill that would punish institutions for providing gender-affirming healthcare, was introduced and read.
Missouri HB1364, a drag ban bill, was introduced and read for a second time.
Ohio HB68, a "SAFE" act, was introduced and referred to the House Public Health Policy Committee.
Texas HB2862 and HB3147 were filed. These prison bills would prohibit incarcerated trans and gender diverse folks from being housed in facilities consistent with their gender identity.
The following bills progressed:
Bathroom bills: (A bathroom bill denies access to public restrooms by gender or trans identity. They increase danger without making anyone any safer and have even prompted attacks on cis and trans people alike. Many national health and anti-sexual assault organizations oppose these bills.)
Arizona SB1040, a school-based bathroom bill, passed in the Senate and crossed over to the House.
Arkansas SB270, which would make it “criminal indecency with a child” for trans folks to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, was re-referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Idaho SB1100, a school-based bathroom bill, had a second reading and was filed for a third reading.
Idaho S1016, which already passed in the Senate, had its first reading in the House and was scheduled for a second reading.
Iowa SF335, a school-based bathroom bill, passed committee and renumbered as SF482.
Heathcare bills: (Healthcare bills go against professional and scientific consensus that gender-affirming care saves lives. Denying access will cause harm. Providers are faced with criminal charges, parents are threatened with child abuse charges, and intersex children are typically exempted.)
Florida S0952, the “Reverse Woke Act,” was referred to the Senate Health Policy Committee.
Georgia SB140, an under-18 healthcare ban, had a second reading.
Indiana SB0480, an under-18 healthcare ban, passed in the Senate and crossed over to the House.
Kansas SB233, which already passed in the Senate, was referred to the House Health and Human Services Committee. This is also an under-18 healthcare ban.
Nebraska LB574, again an under-18 healthcare ban, was placed on general file, meaning it is now on the floor.
Oklahoma SB129 passed in committee and will head to the Senate floor. A reminder that this bill had an emergency added, so it would immediately go into effect if it passes.
Texas HB776, an abortion and under-18 healthcare ban, was referred to the House Public Health Committee.
Utah HB0132 returned to committee yesterday after it failed in committee in January. This is also an under-18 bill.
Public performance bills: (also known as "drag bans" restrict access for folks who are gender non-conforming in any way. They loosely define "drag" as any public performance with an “opposite gender expression,” as sexual in nature, and inappropriate for children. This also pushes trans individuals out of public spaces.)
Arizona SB1698 passed in committee and is headed to the Senate.
Arkansas SB43 was signed by the Governor. This is the drag ban bill that was largely amended to only cover public nudity.
Montana HB359, which already passed in the House, had its first reading in the Senate.
Oklahoma SB503, an obscenity bill, passed in committee.
South Dakota HB1116 an "obscenity bill" that prohibits "lewd or lascivious content," which already passed in the House, passed in committee.
Tennessee SB0841 had its action deferred until 3/14.
Texas HB708 was referred to the House State Affairs Committee.
Schooling bills: (Schooling, or so called “parental rights” bills force schools to misgender or deadname students, ban instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, and make schools alert parents if they suspect a child is trans. They remove life-saving affirmation and support for trans youth.)
Arizona SB1001 passed in the Senate and was transmitted to the House.
Arkansas SB294 is headed to its final vote in the House.
Florida H1069 was sent to another education subcommittee in the House.
Indiana HB1608 passed in the House and crossed over to the Senate where its first reading is scheduled for Monday.
Iowa HSB222 passed in its subcommittee.
Missouri HB1258 had a second reading.
Oklahoma SB503 passed in committee this morning and is headed to the Senate floor.
Tennessee HB1269 was referred to the House Finance, Ways, & Means Committee.
Utah SB0283, an anti-DEI bill for higher education, passed in its Senate Revenue and Taxation Hearing and is now headed to its second committee.
Sex designation bills: (Sex designation bills make it harder for trans folks to have IDs, such as birth certificates, that match their gender identity. They can force a male or female designation based upon sex assigned at birth. Some ban a non-binary “X” marker or require surgery to qualify for ID updates.)
Montana SB458,passed in committee and will head to the Senate floor.
Tennessee SB1440 passed in committee and will head to the Senate floor.
Sports ban bills: (Most sports bills force schools to designate teams by sex assigned at birth. They are often one-sided and ban trans girls from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity. Some egregious bills even force invasive genital examinations on student athletes.)
Arkansas HB1156 was re-referred to the Senate Education Committee.
Florida H0999 was sent to another education subcommittee.
Wyoming SF0133, which already passed in the House, passed in the Senate and will now head to the Governor for signature.
Other anti-trans bills:
Kentucky HB470 passed in committee. This bill defies our categorization system; it's a healthcare bill, but also functions as a bathroom, sports, name change, and a sex designation bill; it packages anything attacking trans youth. A live-tweet of the hearing is here, as can the many Kentucky residents who testified against it.
West Virginia HB3042, a “religious freedom” bill, passed in the Senate and is headed to the Governor for signature.
Texas SB559, a “religious freedom” bill, passed in committee and will head to the Senate floor.
#important#anti trans legislation#trans lives matter#trans#trans lives#lgbt#lgbtq#lgbtq rights#equality#discrimination#bigotry#politics#us politics#current events#news
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Literally sobbing. HB68 passed and goes to Senate in Ohio.
“HB 68 would make it illegal for Ohio doctors to provide anything beyond talk therapy for all transgender minors − even those on hormones and puberty blockers. Families wishing to continue those treatments would have to leave the state.”
So officially we have no choice but to leave to continue our child’s gender affirming care. Sorry to spam everyone with our gofundme page but I’ll attach it again to this post. My heart is broken for all trans kids here, and I’m sick to my stomach with anxiety about making this move happen as soon as possible. Please share if you can.
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BREAKING NEWS: RARE OHIO W
republican governor of ohio mark dewine vetoed HB68, a potential law that would have restriced trans athletes from women's sports and ban gender-affirming care for trans minors after spending weeks visiting hospitals to talk to families impacted by gender-affirming care. the ohio legislature could still overturn the veto, but there is a regulation on anti-trans bans from the president in the works, set to be finalized in early 2024
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Sending love to trans people in Ohio and everywhere. I accessed this guide from an email from Equality Ohio
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#Ohio#Republican#Gov. Mike DeWine#Transgender Health Care#Sports Participation Bans#Trans Ban#Trans Youth#Healthcare Ban#News
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the ohio house passed the dont say gay bills (hb68 and hb8) i want to be euthanized:)
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hb68 veto overrode. ok. awesome. crying again btw
#x#between this and the other shit ohio is trying to do to trans people & healthcare... god it is so bleak out here.
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Trans rights are still under attack in the United States. Please visit our website linked below to learn about your state and contact your reps. Here's a thread of today's updates:
A bathroom bill denies access to public restrooms by gender or trans identity. They increase danger without making anyone any safer and have even prompted attacks on cis and trans people alike. Many national health and anti-sexual assault organizations oppose these bills.
Idaho S1016 had its first reading and was scheduled for a second reading.
Arkansas SB270, which would make it “criminal indecency with a child” for trans folks to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, was re-referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Iowa SF335 passed committee and was renumbered (new number not yet available).
Healthcare bills go against professional and scientific consensus that gender affirming care saves lives. Denying access will cause harm. Providers are faced with criminal charges, parents are threatened with child abuse charges, and intersex children are typically exempted.
Georgia HB653, an under-18 healthcare ban, was introduced on Wednesday.
Ohio HB68, a "SAFE" act, was introduced and referred to the House Public Health Policy Committee.
Kansas SB233, which already passed in the Senate, was referred to the House Health and Human Services Committee.
Oklahoma HB2177 passed in the House, making it the first time that an adult healthcare ban has passed in a chamber. The bill now crosses over to the Senate.
Oklahoma SB129 passed in committee.
Kentucky HB470 passed in committee.
Public performance bans, or "drag bans," restrict access for folks who are gender non-conforming in any way. They loosely define "drag" as any public performance with an “opposite gender expression,” as sexual in nature, and inappropriate for children. This also pushes trans individuals out of public spaces.
Missouri HB1364, a drag ban bill, was introduced yesterday and read for a second time today.
Oklahoma SB503, an obscenity bill, passed in committee.
South Dakota HB1116, an "obscenity bill" which prohibits "lewd or lascivious content," which already passed in the House, passed in committee.
Tennessee HB 1125 has been signed into law by the governor
Schooling / Parental Rights bills force schools to misgender or deadname students, ban instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, and make schools alert parents if they suspect a child is trans. They remove life-saving affirmation and support for trans youth.
Florida S1320 was pre-filed.
Arizona SB1001 passed in the Senate and was transmitted to the House.
Iowa HSB222 passed in its subcommittee.
Tennessee HB1269 was referred to the House Finance, Ways, & Means Committee.
Sex designation bills make it harder for trans folks to have IDs, such as birth certificates, that match their gender identity. They can force a male or female designation based upon sex assigned at birth. Some ban a non-binary “X” marker or require surgery to qualify for ID updates.
Montana SB458 passed in committee and will head to the Senate floor.
Most sports bills force schools to designate teams by sex assigned at birth. They are often one-sided and ban trans girls from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity. Some egregious bills even force invasive genital examinations on student athletes.
Maine LD930, a sports ban bill that specifically targets trans girls, was introduced and referred to the Joint Judiciary Committee.
Wyoming SF0133, which already passed in the House, passed in the Senate and will now head to the Governor for signature.
These are other negative bills that attack trans rights outside of the bill types above.
Texas HB3147 was filed. This is a prison bill that would prohibit trans and gender diverse incarcerated folks from being housed in facilities consistent with their gender identity.
Texas SB559, a “religious freedom” bill, passed in committee and will head to the Senate floor.
It's not too late to stop these and other hateful anti-trans bills from passing into law. You can go to http://transformationsproject.org/ to learn more and contact your representatives.
#trans rights#activism#transgender#lgbtq#protect trans kids#trans formations project#lgbt#nonprofit#political#trans
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HB68 veto got overruled. go bucks.
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HB68 is vetoed!
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