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The site explained that it is most dangerous for folks who have had gender-affirming surgery to stop hormones. For this group, stopping medication can lead to heart complications, metabolic dysfunction, severe bone density loss, cognitive decline, and mood instability.

“For post-operative trans people who have undergone gender-affirming surgery and no longer have their original gonads, withdrawing hormones is not an option, it’s a medical crisis,” GenderGP wrote, adding that banning these hormones “isn’t a political statement, it’s medical malpractice.”


The sponsor of the bill to ban gender-affirming care, state Rep. Dirk Deaton (R), said in March that he decided to add the anti-trans provision to the bill because there have been a lot of new appointments to the court and “a lot of change… in the national conversation around this issue.”

Missouri is a shithole state. Though, technically speaking, this might arise to the level of cruel and unusual for the already-transitioned inmates for the same reason that denying medical care to regular people is cruel and unusual. Wonder how long until we just declare transgender people as illegal to force them to die. Its probably what all the bathroom bills and ID stuff is all about.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 6 points 5 hours ago

Missouri is the state.

Fucking nazi atrocity. We need our own Nuremburg trials for this shit.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

People who co-sponsored these laws should go to prison, where they're forced to give up their religion.

[–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

As a transfemme Missourian, this is ever so reassuring.

Reassuring in the sense that if I chose to commit a crime, I know for certain I would fully commit to the enterprise of doing harm to my enemy, since imprisonment would be a death sentence anyway.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Reassuring in the sense that if I chose to commit a crime

How much you want to bet they're about to criminalize trans? Something about forging government documents or identity fraud?

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago
[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Remember what happened to him and all the people who helped him?

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 6 points 7 hours ago

He died and most of them ended up in positions of power in post war germany?

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

That seems unconstitutional.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

It's been ruled a violation of the 8th amendment

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 11 points 11 hours ago

SCOTUS: hold my beer while I psychically determine what the slave owning founding fathers intended

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 hours ago

A huge issue with this, besides being cruel, is that about 60-70% of the non-federal jail population are just awaiting trial and may actually be innocent. This gives cops more incentive to just arrest those that they don’t like if they can’t afford to post bail.

This needs to go to a higher court immediately. I just hope they do the right thing…

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And so it begins.

Welcome to the trans genocide phase of the Trump presidency.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago

Hope lowering the price of eggs was worth it/s

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

“For post-operative trans people who have undergone gender-affirming surgery and no longer have their original gonads, withdrawing hormones is not an option, it’s a medical crisis,”

Can someone please explain to me what happens to the body in this case?

[–] Archelon@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

“The site explained that it is most dangerous for folks who have had gender-affirming surgery to stop hormones. For this group, stopping medication can lead to heart complications, metabolic dysfunction, severe bone density loss, cognitive decline, and mood instability.”

—The previous paragraph.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

All thanks to laws being made by people with zero knowledge of medical science

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 2 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago)

It’s not about science or saving money or protecting inmates or women.

It never ever was.

It’s about hurting people they don’t like. To them, the government is either a red carpet or a cudgel.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 37 minutes ago

This is why we need lobbyists. Donate to HRC and similar nonprofits

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 4 points 3 hours ago

B-but imaginary sky daddy! Protect the kids!

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago

I vaguely remember that some hormones are relevant for bone integrity. I imagine losing that would be all around awful.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (1 children)

America looking more like early Nazi Germany every day.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jews will not replace us!

-These guys:

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I know what they did and what they stand for isnt funny at all, but I just zoomed in on these bargain Nazis and just can't help but laugh. Picturing them all waddling into home depot or Lowes to the garden section in their little khakis / white shirt uniform to get tiki torches.. Marching to the scent of citronella just mad because something something jews and brown people???

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Can you clue me in to who these people are? I kinda thought it was a movie still but your comment made me second guess

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Can you clue me in to who these people are?

I'm not sure the names of those specific people, but it is a famous picture from Charlottesville's Unite the Right ralley. That white shirt in the foreground is a well known outfit for Vanguard America:

Vanguard America is a well known Neo-Nazi/White-Supremacist Group.

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The lighting is certainly cinematic.. The warm glow of tiki torches, not a mosquito within 5 miles.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

So I guess it was from an Aug 11, 2017 alt-right rally called Unite the Right in Charlottesville Virginia and apparently his name is Peter Cytanovic

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I could believe that little tetrahedron symbol on his polo is some cryptofascist bullshit symbol that he had embroidered on at a mall kiosk because he's too chickenshit to actually own his bigotry and wear a Hakenkreuz...

...but I could also believe that there's some athleisure company out there with that logo where when that photo went viral saw it suddenly appear everywhere and just went Fffffuuuuuucckk mmmmeeeeeee..."

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

cruel and unusual punishment

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

And if you bring it to the supreme court, they'll just say "some people are born to suffer and die".

[–] kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

Wow, 1st you can beat your pregnant wife with no consequences and now this...what a "lovely" place...

As if the prison system in the US wasn't already unnecessarilly cruel.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Freedom!

I'm sure having Democrats in charge would be jUsTaSbAd, by the way....

JFC.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It would be if you live in the middle east!

[–] ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 hours ago

Eat my shorts!

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This has been happening for years in red states, you just weren’t paying attention. Access to HRT in prison in a red state has always been a shitshow at best, and it’s been decades of back and forth lawsuits and new laws trying to get around the last lawsuit.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You just said what OP did with more words. As you pointed out, red states are the ones implementing the policies. Perhaps Democrats wouldn't be passing legislation to make it better, but they wouldn't be passing this trash.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Since there was no reasonable chance of Missouri going blue during the last election, I interpreted the comment as being about national level rather than state level politics.

[–] TheFresh16@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Honestly I'd rather die than have t in my body, not to mention also be rotting away in a prison cell.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s time for socialism and exiling all conservatives

Abolish prisons immediately.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Probably? It's obviously what all the bathroom bills and ID stuff is all about.