This is a great article if you want the truth and statements of facts that debunk the lies and myths of the right. This is a wonderful article. Easy to read and the words of the judge are included. Hugs
Over 311 statements of fact were established in the Arkansas gender affirming care ban case. Not a single fact was found in the state’s favor, and several major talking points were debunked.
The crux of Judge Moody’s ruling lies in the substantial 311 individual statements of fact, many of which decisively dismantle arguments made against gender affirming care. These facts apply to issues from the rarity of detransition to the vital medical benefits that gender affirming care offers transgender youth. The statements also rule on the credibility of the state’s experts as well as the plaintiff’s experts. The court found the plaintiff’s experts to be extraordinarily credible, while the state’s experts were deemed to be considerably lacking in credibility and motivated more by religious beliefs than sound policy. Even religious organizations lobbying for anti-transgender laws, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom, are probed within these factual statements.
Legislative and media discussions surrounding bans on care for trans youth have primarily concentrated on the health risks and benefits of gender-affirming care. After considering numerous witnesses, hundreds of pages of expert testimonies, and briefs filed by medical organizations, the judge definitively concluded that banning gender-affirming care would inflict severe, irreparable harm on transgender youth. One particularly striking fact, Fact 258, was evidenced by Dr. Dan Karasic, a psychiatrist with over three decades of experience treating gender dysphoria. He alerted the court that “not all adolescents with gender dysphoria will survive to 18 if they are denied gender-affirming medical treatment.”
A frequent assertion put forth by advocates for anti-trans care bans is the presumption that transgender youth will eventually regret their transition and detransition. Facts 219-224 determined conclusively that this is not the case. For example, Dr. Karasic pointed out that out of the thousands of patients he has treated, not a single one chose to detransition. While a handful did stop taking their medication, it was primarily due to a lack of family support or their insurance discontinuing coverage, not a change in their self-identified gender.
Judge Moody later dissected the notion that levels of “desistance and regret” warrant prohibitions like Arkansas’s ban on gender-affirming care. He stated:
To the contrary, the evidence proved that there is broad consensus in the field that once adolescents reach the early stages of puberty and experience gender dysphoria, it is very unlikely they will subsequently identify as cisgender or desist.
And the one I love and will keep posting.
3) The Witnesses Are Not Credible
stating their opinions were “more rooted in ideology than in science.”
PRAY FOR NOAHFINNCE!!!! WELL LAYDEES AND GENTLETHEMS… THIS IS QUITE A LOT TO UNPACK. THIS TRANSPHOBE.. THINKS I… NOAHFINNCE AM A BIG BAD SCARY TRANS PERSON… AS THEY ALL DO.
Douglas Berman, a professor of law at Ohio State University and a sentencing expert, read the court papers unsealed on Tuesday morning and said that it was difficult to assess from the filings whether Mr. Biden received a sweetheart deal.
The crimes to which Mr. Biden is pleading guilty, Mr. Berman said, are ones that the average person is rarely prosecuted for because they are usually only brought along with more serious offenses.
In Mr. Biden’s case, they include a charge stemming from lying about drug use on the government form used for his purchase of a handgun. Current and former officials say tens of thousands of Americans, out of the 25 million who buy guns each year, lie on their forms and are not prosecuted.
Prosecutors had pored over Mr. Biden’s finances, including examining two years of unpaid taxes. But in 2021, Mr. Biden paid the I.R.S. the full amount that his accountants estimated he owed, and paid off his liens.
By making the payments, former officials said, Mr. Biden complicated the ability of prosecutors to charge him with tax evasion because juries often question why the government has indicted someone who has paid his taxes. That left prosecutors with the options to charge Mr. Biden with filing his 2017 and 2018 taxes late — something that Mr. Biden’s lawyers argued to prosecutors are often handled without criminal charges and that in this case were handled as misdemeanors.
“If these are the only offenses, most prosecutors are going to say it’s not worth a federal case — they would say: Let’s not make a federal case of it for the average person because it’s not worth it to bring a case unless there’s reason to be concerned that there’s a public safety issue or the trust that everyone is treated equally under the law is at stake,” Mr. Berman said
Sam hosts independent journalist Erin Reed to discuss the recent spate of anti-trans bills working their way through state legislatures across the country. Then they’re joined by Joshua Landis, head of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, to discuss Syria’s recent re-introduction into the Arab League. First, Sam runs through updates on the Florida grand jury Trump case, Mark Meadows’ testimony against Trump, the continuing environmental emergency in the American northeast, right-wingers leaving behind their gas stove schtick, Tucker’s Twitter show, and US-Ukraine intelligence on the Nord Stream fiasco, also diving into the absurdity of economists sticking with their decades-old unemployment lies. Erin Reed then dives right into assessing the state of the right-wing’s attack on trans people nationwide, exploring how they got the entire GOP on board despite the topic’s electoral failures, and why Florida is a good case study for the fundamentalist dystopia they want to create. Wrapping up, Erin tackles the similarities we see between transphobic healthcare legislation and abortion TRAP laws, discusses the fight between progressive and fundamentalist states over border rights and trans care, and why parental rights might wind up saving trans lives in court.
Homophobic bullying is one of the biggest problems for gay teenagers. It makes them suffer, destroys their self esteem and sometimes even drives them to suicide. Such cases happen every day all over the planet. Most of the don’t become a public issue and moreover don’t lead to any consequences.
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A shorter version of my last post on this subject, it has less of the information but a quicker read. I know some of my viewers don’t like long articles and I agree with that most times, but occasionally there are times when it is important to read all the information to understand everything being discussed. Hugs
As long as they are associated with Republicans, there can be no consequences for their misbehavior, because all they have to do is spout empty catch-phrases about “free [from consequences] speech,” the “deep state” or “lame-stream media” and how “they’re not really coming for me, they’re coming for you.”
That narrative gets passed on unquestioned by the media, the Democrats do nothing, the Cry Babies win. Wash and repeat.
Share this everywhere. We must expose the falsehoods that political groups invent about us. This is the kind of erroneous information that Republican State lawmakers are enacting drag and trans bans over.
There is, we as Dems are so weak and beaten down we cant possibly imagine a scenario where these people are held accountable.
You better believe if the roles were reversed the rightwing would have no problem investigating this. Why are we just not interested?
Revoke doc licenses? Investigate and/or disbar lawyers who peddled in the fake science and pushed it in court. There are things that can be done, we should be looking into it.
I’m not a lawyer, but “provide medical justification for interpreting Title IX to exclude gender-identity protections” sounds like it has the potential to be fraud – and, if a pattern, racketeering – if they made stuff up or lied about the science.
