, have publicly stated support for age-appropriate gender-affirming care and publish their own guidelines for care. Several have acknowledged the limited research into the potential long-term effects of puberty blockers, but still recommend it based on other research, especially studies that show positive improvements in mental health for patients.
Other states, including Mississippi and Montana, have adopted laws that, according to critics, make it easier to discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender identity or sexual orientation. Supporters say the laws are needed to safeguard religious freedom. "It's a difficult moment to be passing proactive legislation because this is such a hot button issue all of a sudden," says Ames from the Trevor Project.
If you're just parroting the whinning of one biased advocacy group, you're not reporting the news.
Protecting youth is not targeting, a despicable position you're taking
It's more anti children abuse. But we know, you have an agenda
Complex medical decisions should be left between a doctor, their patient, and responsible guardians of the patient is a minor, not legislated by a bunch of fearful (and fear-mongering) politicians with no relevant medical training.
There’s no such thing as trans kids, GROOMERS.
Will you government funded agency ever give the other side of the story?
“Trans the kids!” -
Trans is extreme. Knowing what a woman is, is not.
Legalizing mental illness is the wrong move for civilization.
*The desire to protect children
So many issues with this. For one, it’s hard enough for a trans person to know what bathroom to use safely. Now they want someone who identifies as male but born female to go to the girl’s bathroom. They’re getting what they’re fighting against! Men in girl’s bathrooms!
All trans folks or are the laws going after seditious conspirators? Asking for OathKeepers in waiting from Florida
Hate sells in the GQP.
What you call anti-trans could just be laws to protect children. Maybe you should start worrying more about protecting children than celebrating people who would harm them.
And the irony of the new wave woke, feminist cults trying to destroy Title IX should be lost on no one. Fuck it. Just end women's sports and everyone cam tryout for one team if thats how you want it
This is like something straight out of The Babylon Bee. Imagine calling someone an extremist for not wanting boys to ruin girls sports. Or change in a locker room with their daughter. Or cutting a kids tits off. Thru can't even drink a fucking beer. You are awful people
Some of this is purposely mischaractorized. Simply using a soft term “gender affirming care” when it could be stopping puberty for a kid swept up in a trend is a serious issue. So is removing breasts of teen girls. This is extreme.
Good
Replace 'anti-trans' with 'pro-woman' or 'pro parents-rights' and you get much closer to the core issue. The problem is that among staff, gender identity ideology is is a more powerful cultural force than being a woman, or a parent.
Protect our Children from sexual ideology, indoctrination and grooming. No puberty blockers that compromise the health of children, and sterilizing them. Carving up young people before they can even understand the ramifications of what has been suggested to them.
When people hear that children are getting double mastectomies they become concerned...
Define 'anti-trans.'
NPR sure isn't going to be accused of both sidesism with this piece.
Half a billion a year… 🖕🏽off, you parasitic hacks.
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There are no trans youths, only abusive friends and activists.
Maybe cutting off body parts off children should not be endorsed... don't you think? And if nobody does that.. than it's ok to have legislation preventing this. Right? Or is it that actually it is done?
Not anti-trans, these bills are anti-child abuse. Radical is giving 'affirming' surgery to kids who can barely figure what classes to take in school. Some common sense had to enter into this conversation.
Under the journalism standards for all of time until a few years ago, this headline would have read “Controversy: Trans Identity Movement” and quoted arguments from both sides.
What is a “trans” youth?
No one cares what adults do. It’s about leaving the children alone. Children do not have the decision-making maturity nor the agency to make life altering, often permanent decisions.
The pronoun people are mad they can’t interfere with kids until after they’re 18.
You can be pro-trans and not want our youth to be groomed into a pharmaceutically dependent debt trap. We need to slow down this movement before we destroy a generation. You should spend a minute looking at libsoftiktok
Don’t target kids for political hits. Laws ought to protect the innocence of children and their freedoms/protections when engaging in age appropriate decisions.
This makes me so sad. I can’t imagine experiencing gender dysphoria/being trans & the personal pain one who does experiences. I can’t imagine what it would feel like if my inside didn’t match my outside.
Why the groomers mad?
If we stop the trans community all Americas problems will be solved 😂.
Good. 'Affirming care' means sterilisation, bodily mutilation and medication and medical dependency for life. The Trans agenda is demonic, you should be glad that legislation is the worst of your worries.
They’re protecting youth. From groomers like you.
Ok groomer
Losing control of the narrative, are you?
Cults radically reshape lives. Medical experimentation radically reshapes lives. Why the spin?
'Anti-trans' - you don't think reporting requires nuance and multiple perspectives? Medicalizing kids risks sterilization, stunted growth and regressed cognitive development, for a start. Defending sex-based rights and attraction are also not 'anti-trans'.
I vote democrat and I am in full support of women’s single sex spaces and not giving puberty blockers or surgeries to anyone under 25. The Democratic Party has lost my vote until they divest themselves from this radical gender ideology that is trying to erase women.
I read this article and doesn’t said anything to inform on why the changes on hormones is good medically speaking. The main concert of whoever wrote this article was on feelings and obviously an anti-right agenda.
Trans is a scam only the extreme left buy into stop forcing it on everyone and crying nazis.
The rightwing in the US is absolutely obsessed with other people's pee-pees.
Trolls in the mentions steadily increasing and in proportion to the infringement of trans civil liberties. Thanks, Elno.
They should be. It's Child Abuse.
Should laws reflect the standard of 99% of the people, or do we need 330 million laws to cover each of us?
What are the Bills and what do they say? Could it be they are trying to protect children from adults that are pushing the trans idea on them? Now that’s a thought
The Anti-Trans bills are extreme? Maybe they aren't extreme enough
Time for the youth to standup to these political bullies.
More spinned lies from the leftist lie factory.
The lieutenant governor of North Carolina says “if there’s a movement in this country that is demonic, it is the transgender movement.” Pallid progs, let the whitesplaining begin.
Biased media like you is going to meet a tragic downfall. Trans = mental illness. It’s science. Deal with it.
We don't let under-16s get TATTOOS bc it's a semi-permanent change they can't fully understand
Advocating for the protection of children is not extreme. Claiming that a man can become a woman or get pregnant, or that children should be subject to burlesque performance, however, is extreme.
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These bills should pass. The political left seems happy to mutilate children and sexualize them too. There is no such thing as a transgendered person. That is impossible. All you get is chemically altered Men or Women. The medical community should not support a person's delusions
NPR is pushing more and more into woke narratives.
The political left is pushing more and more anti parental rights bills. Destroying the lives of so many, especially youth, across the U.S.
Knowing what male and female means isn't extreme.
Who supports cutting off kids private parts?
NPR spreads misinformation propaganda!
NPR constantly pushes fake narratives to push their communist agenda. They should be defunded.
propaganda
Self mutilation does not fix a mental condition.
It's almost as if no one saw this coming.
More pandering to the fringe. That's all NPR HAS. Basically nothing. What's going on in China, Brazil, and Iran.
This NPR article isn't balanced.
Doesn't get more extreme than chemically castrating or butchering children without parental consent🤡
“Advocates Say” “Sources Say” Does NPR report news?
No, NPR, no they aren’t. Minor do not need to be altering their bodies in any way shape or form for “trans” care.
You mean anti child-mutilation bills?
There is a reason kids can't drive, buy alcohol, vote, get tattoos
There is a reason kids can't drive, buy alcohol, vote, get tattoos
Anti Child Abuse. Their is a big difference.
I hope RepMTG ‘s bill passes. Opposing gender-altering pseudo-science is the moral position. Obviously, those who deal with gender dysphoria need help. It should be illegal to surgically alter anyone in this way, but I realize we might have to start by banning it for minors.
Why not target poverty or corporate greed?
I’ve seen no “anti-trans” bills. Gov funded political hackery
Why is NPR so incurious as to why the number of teenage females confused about their sex identity has skyrocketed in recent years? Yet no such increase among middle aged women?
freedom huh?
is a Democratic Master Race propaganda outlet that demands it's only moral to deprive children of the ability to have children, continence, and orgasms, and to force them into a lifetime as a perpetual patient.
The ban is against irreversible gender surgery for persons under 18. I’m not pejorative against adults changing gender, but for kids to do so is premature and to encourage it is criminal.
It fine to be against all ages drag shows, pornography in school and life altering sex therapy for adolescent children.
It's going to be super fun in 20 years when a Congress full of GenZ reps votes to put all remaining Boomers on an ice flotilla and push them out to sea
“Anti-trans” = accept reality, follow science, don’t mutilate and sterilize children & stop erasing girls and women’s sports. That about sum it up?
Great way to permanently lose the majority of people who are currently young. What a despicable party.
Telling someone they've been 'born in the wrong body,' disrupting a healthy endocrine system and amputating body parts in the name of 'gender affirmation' is 'radically reshaping the lives' of gender-anxious youth more than asking them to wait until they are adults to do that.
nprpolitics are pushing a narrative that children know better than parents, and child sexuality is acceptable. 80% of people in this country don’t want their children inundated with this “sexuality science.” The majority is now ostracizing this narrative as it should
Complete wackness, their laws are bullshit. Please don’t give up on yourselves, government bullying should be a crime.
Leave kids alone. Ffs
self-mutilation is very extreme.
Npr, lying again
Love to be such a bigot that you cheer your elected officials wasting your taxpayer dollars bullying trans kids instead of doing something that might actually make your lives better.
Do these bills mention anything about free mental health services?
The gaslighting and lies from NPR compete with PRAVDA
This is insanity. Someone else's being trans does not affect you in any way
NPR is a propaganda outlet. And filled with half baked conspiracy theories
Stop grooming kids.
'Trans kids' don't exist; these are regular kids who have been brainwashed by perverts.
Sell NPR at auction.
And by 'targeting', you mean is that lawmakers are trying to protect kids from castration, mutilation, and other harm, and reaffirm the authority of parents to be involved in medical decisions. And most Americans consider that a good thing.
Oh that's so sweet. They must be rich if his parents can just pick up and move like that instead of waiting the one damn year when he can do it legally as an adult. Or just really fucking entitled. Did the parents ever use the word 'no' growing up?
Conservatives abhor actual freedom and demand obedience, conformity, and compliance. They do that because their brain structure is incable of complexity. The reason for that disability? Read on....
LouisatheLast Why do republicans hate kids
People are homeless and dying from treatable diseases, while people and kids with disabilities are still segregated and abandoned, but what does the liberal media talk about? The divide between what impacts most people and what gets reported has never been greater. echochamber
Every named politician in this article is a Republican, I am not even surprised.
It's sad that a question of medical science have become political. When it come to gender affirming surgery and medication have many countries in Europe stopped it because of risks and a lack of knowledge about long term effects. Not by being against transpeople per se.
Conservatives believing other people's bodies and lives are their business to the extent that they need to weaponize the power of the state to force themselves into other people's business is their entire ideology in a nutshell.
Why? You really have to ask yourself, WHY
If these folks want to live their lives as a lie, that's their business, but we as a society refuse to be forced to play along with it.
Really don't understand why it's so difficult in America to just let people be happy in their own skin.
Next, go conflate legal and illegal immigration some more. You love doing that.
Kids shouldn't be groomed into making life altering medical decisions. The amount of leftist trans cheerleading is beyond ridiculous. NPR is one of the worst.
If 'boys can't play girl's sports' who's being targetted?
. Another media outlet failing at its simplest duty - reporting facts. Your omission of the political party filing these bills is EGREGIOUS and an ethical failure. I have donated to NPR my entire adult life, but no more. Your org is nothing but a mouthpiece for the CULT.
Let parents mutilate their kids and pump them full of crazy hormones. When the kids grow into the adults, they should not be allowed to sue doctors if they have any regrets. Insurance will not be liable to pay for detransitioning either. Let these kids have the consequences
Look, if these parents want to ruin their kids, then let them. That's less adults my kid will compete with for great jobs. If you want to set up your kid for dysfunctional adulthood, fine. Your kid won't be in my kid's way of a career and owning a house.
What is the topic of these bills?
It’s almost like being racist is out of trend and the new wave is transphobia (hint: they’re still racist)
Trans kids and adults are a tiny minority of the population who just want to be themselves and hurt no one else at all, although they suffer disproportionate rates of death by murder and suicide. These are the people Republican politicians call open season on. Disgraceful.
REPUBLICAN state lawmakers.
This is what happens when national policy is set by Tucker Carlson.
There shouldn't be trans kids. That's the problem.
Meanwhile, a large swath of Texas lost easy access to clean water, bridges are falling apart, and people who already have more $ than they can spend in 10 lifetimes are getting tax breaks. Republicans know their base is nothing but cruel bullies, so cruelty is how they govern.
Depends on the bill I would be very much against the government overriding the wishes of parents To get their kid treatment. but if there's any kind of bill that stops teachers or other government workers from influencing kids I would be a 100% in support of those.
Republicans came for trans kids and we did nothing. Who will be next? There is no hate as destructive as that powered by religion.
Some say 'targetting' others say 'protecting'.
You mean protecting children from predators and self harm...yeah, that's the right headline.
LouisatheLast There is a body count attached to this.
States restricting trans civil liberties juxtaposes neatly with states that prioritize guns over women's abortion rights.
Requiring parents to be noticed and potentially onboard for a sub 18 permanent trans surgery is targeting?
REPUBLICAN lawmakers. Republican. Call them what they are.
This article lacks balance. defundnpr
Probably to protect 8 year old girls from having a 30 year old dude from waving his dick in their faces. Groomers
This is insane. Someone else's being trans does not affect you in any way.
Nazis rising.
Which party's politicians, NPR?
Good. Liberals perverts want to change sex as the kids are born to satisfy their desires.
No, you lying sack of vomit, they did not.
Molly1Jo Sick but not surprising.
Once the normalization of sexual outcomes and general sexualizing of children is achieved. Say goodbye to the innocence of childhood.
disgusting
Mental illness should always be targeted. Please note shootings in Uvalde Texas and Colorado Springs by mentally ill people against the unsuspecting.
It’s customary to include party affiliation when referring to politicians by name.
Misleading. Increasing awareness of explicit sexual material aimed at teaching children in school libraries provoked a response at the local and state level. Don’t you follow Libs of TikTok?
TransJA The bills aren’t “targeting trans youth,” they’re targeting medical experimentation on children (some, but not all of whom, identify as transgender).
This is Republican compassion -- attacking minorities who need special medical care in 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness'.
It's not called 'gender affirming care' it's mutilation...
You are forever ratioed. Why do they steal my money and give it to you?
Republican lawmakers are scapegoating transgender children, their parents and physicians to score donations and clout from their prejudiced base.
Live & let live. Love & let love.
MDomino07 I do believe republicons have transgender kiddos too, what an absurd atrocity.
Protecting children from medical malpractice and child abuse is a good thing.
Well since they are aimed at stopping children from making lifelong choices this is a good thing and shit framing from NPR.
It's the latest hot button issue for conservatives
What scares you about a trans person?
All state lawmakers or GOP? Can you attempt accuracy?
Keep it up!
Republicans hate and fear individual liberty and demand conformity.
Can we defund the NPR yet?
Good.
This is what the GOP is concerned with. Targetting minorities, not governing or acting like functional adults. Anyone spending time worrying about the genitals of the person peeing in the stall next to them needs to get a life.
I love all the comments from people who have no contact with trans people but feel that they are qualified to make decisions for them.
Because those butt hurt former bullied teens are now older and wanting to get back at their oppressors.
In a democracy, the majority rules. Is the transgender population a majority yet? Including all those who support transgender? Help the marginalized.
Did NPR pay for their blue check mark with taxpayer dollars? Rhetorical question, it was indeed partially funded by tax dollars. DefundNPR
Reminding you that you can’t just choose which bathroom to go into is not a targeted attack, it’s the standard we all go by.
Transgender: is a term used to describe someone undergoing psychological distress. It is an issue born of the mind, and children caught up in this delusion need to be addressed.
I believe the legislation was attempting to prevernt children from making a decision that can not be reversed, before they reach the age of adulthood. I applaud these efforts. There are transgender people who wish the could revert back. Discuss them. RAG!
mimmymum Aimed at what. Protecting them from irreversible surgery and making sure they want a fistula for the rest of their lives. I’m trans and I’ve got huge health problems caused by dr in a rush to make money.
Is this a sponsored article? Sponsored by who?
Correction: these bills target adults who are enabling minors to undergo life-altering decisions before they are ready to understand their choices. DefundNPR
I really don't understand how kids questioning their gender is ANY concern of lawmakers. It's probably only because one of them was embarrassed when they found out their child was going by another name and didn't like being in control so this was the next step. It's pathetic.
Wow. Imagine if they instead spent time introducing bills that would actually help the American people.
That’s why I voted for them. StopGroomingOurKids
Please specify which party (hint, this is NOT a “both sides” issue).
Wow I can’t imagine why more laws would be passed in the last 2 years than from the period of 1998-2000
What do American lawmakers want to do to American kids and teens?🤔
Deplorable.
This is called responding to their constituents. It's how democracies are supposed to work.