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Why violence against transgender Americans is a crisis that’s under reported
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A recent series of murders of transgender victims is causing growing concern, particularly for trans women of color. It comes at a time when trans celebrities are more accepted in pop culture than ever before — but also as the Trump administration aims to roll back Obama-era discrimination protections for transgender people. Amna Nawaz talks to the Anti-Violence Project’s Beverly Tillery.
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Judy Woodruff:
There is growing concern in this country and fear about deadly attacks against transgender Americans, particularly trans women of color.
As Amna Nawaz tells us, a series of murders in different cities in just one week has underscored a larger pattern of violence over several years.
And yet it comes at a time when trans celebrities are more accepted and more prominent in pop culture.
Amna Nawaz:
Judy, the most recent killing took place last Sunday in north Philadelphia.
Michelle “Tamika” Washington, 40 years old and a longtime advocate for the LGBTQ community, was shot several times. Her death came one day after Muhlaysia Booker was found dead in Dallas. Booker was just 23, and just weeks before her death, she was attacked in a mob-like beating after a minor traffic accident.
One week before those murders, 21-year-old Claire Legato was shot in the head in Cleveland. She was killed after an argument between her mother and the suspected shooter.
Earlier this year, two more black transgender women, Ashanti Carmon and Dana Martin, were also killed. Last year, more than two dozen transgender people were killed. And according to a 2018 Human Rights Campaign report, there were at least 128 trans people killed in 32 states since 2013; 80 percent of them were people of color.
Let’s now take a closer look at this now with Beverly Tillery. She’s executive director of the Anti-Violence Project, an LGBTQ anti-violence organization.
Beverly, welcome to the “NewsHour.” Thank you for being with us.
I want to start by asking you about this recent state of killings. They happened across the country. The circumstances are all very different in each case. Do you know or believe that these women were targeted because they were transgender?
Beverly Tillery:
You know, I don’t know all of the specifics of each of these murders.
But what we know is, as you really just showed already, that we are seeing a tremendous number of homicides of trans women of color. Over and over, for the past several years, this has been consistent, and we need to pay attention as a society.
This is something that’s happening to our community members who are constantly under threat, experiencing other kinds of hate violence in our society, and we need to step up and come together and really do something to stop it.
Amna Nawaz:
Beverly, your organization tracks the numbers. You have been tracking them for 20 years.
Beverly Tillery:
That’s right.
Amna Nawaz:
When you look at the numbers, as we know them this year, as compared to last, there appears to be a reduction in the violence. Do you trust those numbers?
Beverly Tillery:
Well, what we always say is that, even what we report, we know is an underreporting of the violence that’s happening and the homicides that’s happening.
A number of homicides — and, of course, we can’t tell you how many — don’t ever get reported for a number of reasons. In some cases, we know that trans and gender-nonconforming folks are misgendered by the police. They may not have community members who and friends and family members who will step up and say, this is who this person really was.
And we just know that a lot of this goes under the radar, unfortunately. Really, we shouldn’t get into a game of trying to compare this year to last year, when did the homicides happen.
You know, it really doesn’t matter. This is a huge crisis, and we have to take action now. We have known about this for years now. And we should have taken action last year and the year before, but it’s not too late now.
Amna Nawaz:
Let’s talk about the action we have seen. In Dallas alone, right, there were three brutal attacks in the last several months, two of them fatal.
Beverly Tillery:
Yes.
Amna Nawaz:
The mayor came out and said, this is unacceptable. He called it mob violence, the attack against Muhlaysia Booker.
What you have seen in law enforcement in the way of response? Are you satisfied with what you’re seeing?
Beverly Tillery:
Well, we’re not satisfied.
We don’t necessarily see a response that is saying, this is more than just a trend. This is an epidemic in our society that needs to be addressed and taken seriously. And, frankly, you know, more and more community members are reluctant to turn to law enforcement, because members of the trans and gender-nonconforming community and, in fact, members of the LGBTQ community have experienced violence from the police.
They don’t trust the police.
Amna Nawaz:
Beverly, it’s worth noting we are speaking on the same day the Trump administration has rolled back some health care protections for trans people. Earlier this week, there was another rule they put in place allowing federal shelters receiving funds to turn away trans people serving — seeking services there. There’s also the efforts to push a transgender military ban here.
What effect have all of these even just proposals had on the trans community?
Beverly Tillery:
Yes.
I mean, talk about a complete slap in the face. You know, the timing is really important to note here because, on the heels of these homicides, where the community is already reeling, for the administration to, one after the other, release these proposed guidelines and rules this week, it’s clear that they do not care about the trans and gender-nonconforming community.
And, in fact, in the work that we have been doing in the city of New York and across the country, when we have brought together trans and gender-nonconforming folks to talk about what are the ways we need our cities and our states and the nation to respond to this violence and to help prevent violence, people over and over again have told us, we need housing, we need access to employment, we need better health care, so that we can put ourselves in safer circumstances and so we’re not as vulnerable to violence that’s happening in our community.
And what does the administration do? Seek to strip away access to health care, to housing, to employment. You know, all of the things that people have actually articulated that they need to address the violence, the administration is trying to take away.
Amna Nawaz:
Beverly Tillery, executive director of the Anti-Violence Project, thanks for being with us today.
Beverly Tillery:
Thank you so much for having me.
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Michelle Washington, 40, was shot multiple times on Sunday morning.
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Michelle “Tamika” Washington, 40, was shot in the head and torso on Sunday morning and pronounced dead…Show More
A man has been arrested for allegedly gunning down a transgender activist in Philadelphia, though police say the killing is not being investigated as a hate crime.
Michelle “Tamika” Washington, 40, was shot in the head and torso on Sunday morning and pronounced dead at a hospital, according to the Philadelphia police.
The fact that Washington was transgender was not a factor in the crime, Philadelphia police homicide Capt. Jason Smith said at a news conference on Tuesday.
He added, “She did not deserve to die in this manner.”
UPDATE: SUSPECT CHARGED.
Fam, I am deeply relieved to announce that @PhillyPolice have a suspect in custody for the murder of âTamikaâ Washington. The @philadao has acted swiftly & already pressed charges. I will continue to update as details become available. #SayHerName pic.twitter.com/xxBQZ9nGWp
— Amber Hikes (@AmberHikes) May 21, 2019
Troy Bailey, 28, was arrested Monday night for murder and gun-related charges, police said.
It’s believed Bailey knew the victim, Smith said.
(MORE: Man arrested after aggravated assault of transgender woman caught on video)
Bailey gave a statement to police, admitting to shooting Washington, Smith said.
“The truth as to why Mr. Bailey murdered Ms. Washington may never be fully known,” Smith said. “According to Mr. Bailey, it was over a dispute that the two had pertaining to the sale of a firearm from Mr. Bailey to Ms. Washington.”
“We don’t necessarily believe that’s the case,” Smith added.
Bailey had gone to police on his own, saying he was a witness to the murder, Smith said. Police later zeroed in on him as a suspect.
Washington was “a brilliant and outgoing member of Philadelphia’s transgender community, known for her advocacy and mentorship,” Amber Hikes, executive director of Philadelphia’s Office of LGBT Affairs, said in a statement. “She will be profoundly missed.”
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Trump just dismantled one of the last major protections keeping transgender people safe
The war on trans people escalated this week with attacks on their access to shelter and health care.
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MAY 24, 2019, 2:19 PM
WITH THE SECTION 1557 RULE CHANGE, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS NOW DISMANTLED EVERY MAJOR TRANSGENDER PROTECTION IT CAN. (PHOTO CREDIT: CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES)
The Trump administration announced Friday morning sweeping changes to the rules protecting transgender people from discrimination in health care. Combined with an announcement earlier this week ending gender identity protections in homeless shelters, the administration has now taken steps to exclude transgender people from almost every aspect of public life, including employment, housing, health care, education, prisons, and the military.
The Trump administration has been forecasting these changes for some time. The changes to the health care rules proposed Friday, however, are perhaps the most damning evidence that it completely disregards transgender people’s humanity, and in fact views them as a threat to the safety of society.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wants to revise what’s known as “Section 1557,” the nondiscrimination protections found in the Affordable Care Act. The Obama administration had interpreted the protections on the basis of “sex” to include gender identity, and the Trump administration seeks to reverse that interpretation. In fact, HHS even goes further and argues that sex stereotyping should no longer be protected, ignoring a Supreme Court precedent recognizing such stereotyping as a form of illegal discrimination. The scope of the proposed regulation mirrors a leaked memo from last year proposing to erase transgender people from recognition throughout the federal government.
The change incorporates exemptions found in Title IX allowing religious universities to discriminate on the basis of sex; under the new rule, religious hospitals will be completely free to do the same. This reinforces the separate “conscience” rule the administration introduced earlier this month, which would allow health care providers to discriminate on the basis of their religious beliefs.
When President Donald Trump took questions from the press Friday, one reporter pressed him on the rule change, asking, “Should doctors be forced to perform transgender reassignment surgeries?”
Trump responded by simply saying, “We’re going to see. We’ll see.”
A footnote in the new regulation speaks to how the administration is actively demonizing the transgender community. According to the footnote, states and localities can still enforce their own nondiscrimination protections, as can hospitals that set those policies for themselves. If, however, people have to share a dressing room or shower with a transgender person, the administration warns that allowing that accommodation could still be a violation.
The claim that transgender people are inherently a threat to others’ privacy is the same rationale inherent in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) plan to revoke transgender protections for homeless shelters. A day after HUD Secretary Ben Carson said under oath that he wouldn’t be changing the rule put in place by the Obama administration, HUD announced that it was doing just that. If the rule change is implemented, homeless shelters would be free to force transgender and gender nonconforming people to be housed according to their “biological sex” — or they could deny such individuals access altogether.
These recent changes impacting transgender people’s access to health care and shelter follow a litany of other protections the administration has revoked.
One of the first dominoes to fall was education. After only a month in office, the Trump administration rescinded Obama-era rules protecting transgender students from discrimination in public schools. Since then, the Education Department has refused to hear any complaints of discrimination filed by transgender students.
The Justice Department followed suit later that year, rescinding a rule protecting transgender people in employment. This past December, the Office of Personnel Management also announced it wanted to make it easier to discriminate against transgender people within the federal government, completely erasing guidance about how to respect employees who transition.
Last year, the Trump administration also rescinded protections for transgender people in the nation’s prisons. That change would force transgender people to be housed in prisons according to their “biological sex,” making transgender women particularly vulnerable to violence and sexual abuse.
In so many of these attacks, the changes have been based entirely on nonsensically interpreting the word “sex” in a way that completely erases transgender people’s lived experiences. The memo leaked last fall even suggested that transgender people would be subjected to genetic testing to arbitrarily determine the appropriate “sex” category. This proposal offered no explanation for how it would categorize intersex people, who may have genes that aren’t simply XX or XY.
Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg. CREDIT: On The Basis Of Sex
LGBTQ people are still fighting for protection ‘on the basis of sex’
This is especially noticeable in the administration’s incoherent defense of banning transgender people from the military, which has now been in effect for over a month. The administration claims that it’s not a ban, even though it prohibits anybody from serving in the military except according to their “biological sex.” While the administration also argued that accommodating transgender people’s medical needs would be too costly and take them out of commission for too long, the ban nevertheless prohibits transgender people from serving even if they have undergone and recovered from all the procedures they require.
As it stands, the administration will deny transgender people support for virtually any kind of discrimination they might experience. Some transgender people — including both students and workers — have found support in the courts, with judges accepting the reality of who transgender people are and protecting them under federal “sex” protections. But the Trump administration also argues against transgender people in these cases, as can be expected when the Supreme Court takes up a transgender woman’s workplace discrimination case later this year.
It’s no coincidence that the administration has been particularly cozy with anti-LGBTQ organizations like the Family Research Council, Heritage Foundation, and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). The rhetoric in all of these attacks on the transgender community is pulled directly from the hate these groups spew. ADF, in particular, has been at the forefront of opposing transgender equality in the courts, defending schools and workplaces alike that wish to discriminate.
Even before all of these rollbacks, transgender people were already one of the most vulnerable groups in the country. According to the U.S. Trans Survey, transgender people face far higher rates of homelessness, suicide attempts, and serious psychological distress — manifestations of the massive rates of discrimination they face in school, at work, when seeking shelter, when interacting with police, in health care, and even just in public spaces.
The Trump administration has issued nothing short of a license to eradicate transgender people from daily life. Each of the last few years, the number of reported murders of transgender people has increased, and Trump is apparently not interested in doing anything to give transgender people a fair chance at a basic life.
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State bills would curtail health care for transgender youth
Lesley Stahl reports on the spate of legislation being introduced in states that would limit care for transgender youth.
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Last month, Arkansas passed a law prohibiting doctors from treating transgender youth with puberty blockers, testosterone or estrogen, and surgery to assist their transitions. As part of a new culture war, similar bills have been introduced in at least 20 other states: in some cases, doctors could go to jail. Many physicians and therapists are appalled, like Erica Anderson, a highly respected gender psychologist at the University of California San Francisco who is transgender herself.
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Dr. Erica Anderson: It’s a very ominous development. It’s a bad sign.
Lesley Stahl: Have you ever seen anything like that before in your lifetime?
Dr. Erica Anderson: No. No. And it’s a clear overreach on the part of such legislatures. Clearly, they are demonstrating their ignorance and prejudice.
At least six major medical associations have weighed in against these bills, including the American Academy of Pediatrics of which Dr. Lee Savio Beers is the president.
Lesley Stahl: I’m gonna read you something that was said in support of this law in Arkansas. One of the Republican senators said gender-affirming treatments are, quote, “…at best, experimental, and, at worst, a serious threat to a child’s welfare.”
Dr. Lee Savio Beers: These are not experimental treatments. They’re really based in scientific literature, they’re based in decades and decades of expert experience, and they’re backed by a number of major medical organizations.
Lesley Stahl: So let’s say there’s a young person and they’re on hormones. Under the law in Arkansas, a doctor has to take those hormones away?
Dr. Lee Savio Beers: Yes. And if the doctor decides to move forward, they face significant penalty.
Lesley Stahl: Is there any medical rationale for this legislation, in your opinion?
Dr. Lee Savio Beers: No, there is not.
The field of transgender health care has grown rapidly. In 2007, there was one major youth gender clinic in the entire country. Today there are at least 50. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH, issues guidelines that currently say to get medical treatments like hormones or surgery: those under 18 should have parental consent and have seen a therapist; to get hormones, those over 18 can sign an informed consent form after an initial assessment but for surgery they too need to have seen a therapist. Revised guidelines are expected by the end of this year.
The process today is much easier than it used to be when patients who wanted to transition had to go through extensive therapy that many considered onerous and insulting. In some cases, doctors even tried to quote, cure them.
Dr. Erica Anderson: There’s been a residue of trauma in the trans community. People tell the stories of feeling mistreated by the health care system that subjected them to all this extra scrutiny. So there’s been a reaction, which is, well, if we actually accept that trans people exist and and deserve a right to be themselves and to have access to quality medical care, then let’s give it to them.
Lesley Stahl: Is there an accreditation to work in this field?
Dr. Erica Anderson: So there is coming to be, yes.
But not yet. Dr. Anderson, who sits on the board of WPATH, says that their guidelines are not always followed by clinicians who are not well-trained.
Dr. Erica Anderson: There are health care providers who have jumped into this area because trans people are interesting. You know, they’re unicorns. You know, “Oh, I have one of them now.” And I think it’s deplorable.
The WPATH guidelines call for affirming but careful evaluation, which is how dr. Anderson says she has counseled hundreds of trans patients, including this 17-year-old, who she’s been treating since he started the transition process at the age of 13, when he was diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a deep distress that his body did not match his gender identity.
Dr. Erica Anderson: Is your life better?
PATIENT: My quality of life has improved drastically. I very much believe if I hadn’t done all these things, there’s a high likelihood I would have tried to take my own life and I might have succeeded.
Dr. Erica Anderson: It’s clear that there are many trans children who are helped by the kinds of interventions that we’re talking about here that would be prohibited by these laws.
Lesley Stahl: Does it make a difference in how long someone has expressed gender dysphoria? I mean, you hear of parents who say, “Oh, I knew when my child was four years old.” And then you also hear stories where someone said, “Well, I felt that way for three months.”
Dr. Erica Anderson: Well, the formal diagnosis for gender dysphoria has this one criterion, that this conflict have existed for a minimum of six months.
Lesley Stahl: Okay. Well, six months. Is that…
Dr. Erica Anderson: I’m not satisfied with six months myself.
While the vast majority of transgender youth and adults are satisfied with their transitions, not all are. In some cases, patients are choosing to reverse the process. It’s called detransitioning. In her early 20s, Grace Lidinsky-Smith was seriously depressed and developed gender dysphoria. She began searching for answers in transgender communities on the internet.
Grace Lidinsky-Smith: And when I saw them being so happy and excited about doing this wonderful, transformative process to really, like, become their true selves I was like, have I considered that this could be my situation, too?
Lesley Stahl: Did this have any part of it, a sense that men had it easier in life than women did and that your road might be easier if you were male?
Grace Lidinsky-Smith: Yes. I just had this sense that if– if I could inhabit life as, like, a trans man, as a man, then I wouldn’t feel so self-conscious. I was thinking that it would make me feel very free.
Grace says she found a gender therapist on the internet and told her, “I’m thinking of transitioning.”
Grace Lidinsky-Smith: She thought it all sounded pretty good.
Lesley Stahl: Did the therapist not question you about how deep the feeling was and what it was stemming from?
Grace Lidinsky-Smith: She didn’t go – really go into what my gender dysphoria might’ve been stemming from. We only did a few sessions.
Because she was over 18 and didn’t need parental consent, she says she merely signed an informed consent form at a clinic and got hormone shots.
Grace Lidinsky-Smith: They asked me, “So, why do you wanna go on testosterone?” And I said, “Well, being a woman just isn’t working for me anymore.” And they said, “Okay.”
Lesley Stahl: So, that was that. You got your prescription for testosterone?
Grace Lidinsky-Smith: Uh-huh. Yup.
Just four months after she started testosterone, she says she was approved for a mastectomy, what’s called top surgery, that she told us was traumatic.
Lesley Stahl: You know, I’m kinda surprised because, based on everything you’ve said up to now, I would’ve thought you’d have a great sense of relief.
Grace Lidinsky-Smith: I started to have a really disturbing sense that like a part of my body was missing, almost a ghost limb feeling about being like, there’s something that should be there. And the feeling really surprised me but it was really hard to deny.
And so she detransitioned by going off testosterone and then went back to the clinic and, she says, complained to the doctor that the process didn’t follow the WPATH guidelines.
Grace Lidinsky-Smith: I can’t believe that I transitioned and detransitioned, including hormones and surgery, in the course of, like, less than one year. It’s completely crazy.
Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper: It greatly concerns me where the field has been going. I feel like what is happening is unethical and irresponsible in some places.
Laura Edwards-Leeper was the first psychologist at the first major youth gender clinic in the U.S. at Boston Children’s Hospital. She says she has helped hundreds of teens and young adults transition successfully after a comprehensive assessment.
Lesley Stahl: Do you have conversations with your colleagues about this whole area of accepting what young people are saying too readily?
Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper: Yes. Everyone is very scared to speak up because we’re afraid of not being seen as being affirming or being supportive of these young people or doing something to hurt the trans community. But even some of the providers are trans themselves and share these concerns.
There’s no confirmed number of detransitioners in the U.S., though their percentage among the more than 1.4 million transgender Americans is assumed to be small. They are becoming more public though. We found a Reddit detransition support group with over 19,000 members worldwide, some saying they changed their minds because of family pressure or discrimination in employment and other areas or simply regret. We also interviewed more than 30 detransitioners, who say they also had experienced regret, including these four, who hadn’t met before now.
Lesley Stahl: How many of you feel that you were blindly affirmed?
Garrett: I didn’t get enough pushback on transitioning. I went for two appointments and after the second one I had, like, my letter to go get on cross-sex hormones.
Lesley Stahl: Two visits? That’s it?
Garrett: Uh-huh.
All four tell us they learned about transitioning on the internet where there are transformation videos on youtube, trans influencers and forums.
Transgender Influencer: I’ve just never been able to be me. But I can now.
For Daisy in Chicago, who says she started taking hormones at 18, everything was great in the beginning.
Daisy: After every step that you take, every milestone, feels like a million bucks. When I got top surgery I was elated. When I changed my name I was elated. But when everything that I had set out to do was done, I still felt incomplete.
Garrett from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, went from taking hormones to getting his testicles removed, he says in just three months, whereas the current guidelines call for continuous use for a year. He later got a breast augmentation. But, instead of feeling more himself, he says he felt worse.
Lesley Stahl: So more depressed after you transitioned than before.
Garrett: I had never really been suicidal before until I had my breast augmentation. And about a week afterwards I wanted to, like, actually kill myself. Like, I had a plan and I was gonna do it but I just kept thinking about, like, my family to stop myself. It kind of felt like how am I ever going to feel normal again, like other guys now?
Long before the anti-trans legislation was introduced across the country, the challenges facing the transgender community were daunting. LGBTQ advocacy groups like GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign are worried that highlighting the stories of detransitioners could make things worse. Alfonso David is president of the Human Rights Campaign.
Alphonso David: We’re talking about a community, transgender people, that are already marginalized, that are being further marginalized and victimized by elected officials, by anti-equality forces. They’re being used as a political football. And these are real people. These are real lives that we’re talking about.
Lesley Stahl: So what are some of the challenges right now facing the trans community?
Alphonso David: The trans community is facing an epidemic of violence. We’ve had at least 44 transgender people killed last year. Transgender youth, in many cases, attempt suicide at a rate of four times that of their peers.
Lesley Stahl: There’s worry that the idea that people regret the move can be used against trans people in this political environment.
Grace Lidinsky-Smith: I worry about it too. I think the kinds of things we advocate for don’t hurt trans people. Like, we want there to be more help from therapists with dysphoria. We want there to be longer term tracking of health outcomes. Everyone benefits from that.
Dr. Anderson says the stories of detransitioners mean the trans community as a whole needs more and better health care, not bans on treatment. And she thinks it’s a mistake to ignore their voices.
Dr. Erica Anderson: I think we cannot turn a blind eye to the needs of those trans people who have gotten less than adequate care or even poor care. My heart goes out to them. And their stories are important. And we can’t deny them.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration, reversing actions taken by the Trump administration, said it will enforce protections against discrimination in health care for transgender people.
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One of America’s most recognized and experienced broadcast journalists, Lesley Stahl has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since 1991.
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The 60 Minutes Overtime piece is only marginally better. I question why this wasn’t included in the main story
(https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-transgender-health-care-issues-2021-05-23/)
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‘60 Minutes Overtime’
De-Transition stories.
(https://youtu.be/A_49e0CEi0g)
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When they don’t tell the truth, they tell lies.
Thus, the anti-Trans gang told lies.
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Sharon Nichols
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A Facebook ‘Memories’ from two years ago.
Our Trans existence under attack by Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, Drumpfians, Deplorables.
CBS ’60 Minutes’ ran a segment Sunday night about Our Trans Community – including Transition and de-Transition.
You read my earlier ‘Memories’:
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(https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-health-care-60-minutes-2021-05-23/)
State bills would curtail health care for transgender youth
Lesley Stahl reports on the spate of legislation being introduced in states that would limit care for transgender youth.
2021
May 23
Lesley Stahl
Last month, Arkansas passed a law prohibiting doctors from treating transgender youth with puberty blockers, testosterone or estrogen, and surgery to assist their transitions. As part of a new culture war, similar bills have been introduced in at least 20 other states: in some cases, doctors could go to jail. Many physicians and therapists are appalled, like Erica Anderson, a highly respected gender psychologist at the University of California San Francisco who is transgender herself.
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‘60 Minutes Overtime’
De-Transition stories.
(https://youtu.be/A_49e0CEi0g)
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(https://www.facebook.com/60minutes/posts/10159241991899395)
CBS 60 Minutes
(23 May 21)
“It’s a very ominous development. It’s a bad sign,” says Dr. Erica Anderson, a gender psychologist, about legislation proposed across the country prohibiting doctors from using specific treatments to assist transgender youth with their transitions.
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“There are many trans children who are helped by the kinds of interventions that we’re talking about here that would be prohibited by these laws,” says Dr. Erica Anderson about proposed legislation banning treatments to assist youth in their transitions.
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As the field of transgender care grows and clinics pop up to meet demand, are professional guidelines being followed to assure patients are carefully assessed before receiving hormone treatment and surgery? We asked psychologist Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper:
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“The trans community is facing an epidemic of violence… at least 44 transgender people [were] killed last year,” says Alphonso David of the HRC, citing the key issues facing trans people: violence, suicide, health care, and legislation limiting trans care.
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“We cannot turn a blind eye to the needs of those trans people who have gotten less than adequate care or even poor care,” says Dr. Erica Anderson. She says the trans community as a whole needs more and better healthcare, not bans on treatment.
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Thank you.
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MEMORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.
‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
Forbes Staff
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
Updated Sep 12, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
TOPLINE A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
Attacks World Trade Center
Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, [+]
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KEY FACTS
The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN’T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, said he was “F—KING P—-ED” about the report, because his brother died of cancer from 9/11.
“From the administration whose identity is built on claims of honoring first responders,” Julie Cohen, director of the RBG documentary, wrote on Twitter.
“This doesn’t surprise me at all,” Army veteran and advocate Paul Rieckoff wrote on Twitter. “Trump did NOTHING to push for the extension of #Zadroga last year.”
“We are also working with Congressman King and others to examine any potential authorities to provide relief in this case to support our nation’s 9/11 heroes,” the Treasury spokesperson. told Forbes, but could not provide any examples of how they would do it, and did not have a timeline.
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“Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we’re not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes,” FDNY Chief Medical Officer David Prezant told the Daily News.
CHIEF CRITIC
“Pure evil,” tweeted Dr. Dena Grayson, a medical expert who specializes in ebola and other viruses.
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This is Crooked Drumpf’s Amerika.
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