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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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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

America looking more like early Nazi Germany every day.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jews will not replace us!

-These guys:

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (5 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???

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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..."

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

cruel and unusual punishment

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Freedom!

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

JFC.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month 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 7 points 1 month 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 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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[–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month 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.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] mild_deviation@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Probably the best way to do that is to GTFO, but that’s a huge undertaking that comes with many sacrifices.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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?

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That seems unconstitutional.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I know, let's make up a whole new interpretation of the law based on what we think someone from hundreds of years ago thought. Let's call it something bonkers like originalism.

Then, because the theory has no legal foundation, let's threaten schools of law that they have to teach it or else.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/judge-urges-law-school-donation-halt-until-originalism-taught

Something something dumbest timeline ever.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

Missouri is the state.

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

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month 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 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And so it begins.

Welcome to the trans genocide phase of the Trump presidency.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hope lowering the price of eggs was worth it/s

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Hope giving the finger to the Dems was worth it.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well, in a supply and demand method of pricing, there are two ways to decrease prices. One is to lower demand. Nothing decreases demand like killing off some of the populace.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s time for socialism and exiling all conservatives

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God damn it. It’s my state. I hate it here.

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

Wish it was a blue state like its big brother, Illinois.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They lie and cheat to keep us down. Just look at gerrymandering. We made a rule against it and they tricked voters into overturning it before it went into effect.

I don’t know if I’m in district 5 or 6 anymore. I checked on the states website and they didn’t know either. It’s a nightmare.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I checked on the states website and they didn’t know either. It’s ~~a nightmare~~ intentionally malicious.

FTFY

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (3 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 7 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month 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… and nothing else.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

B-but imaginary sky daddy! Protect the kids!

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From what I understand, biological systems regulated by sex hormones require one or the other to work at all. For example, you get one pattern of post-puberty bone growth with estrogen, a different pattern with testosterone, and no bone growth at all if you have neither. These systems also have some counterbalancing factor, like your bones constantly being slowly dissolved to keep calcium in your bloodstream, so if you have no gonads and no supplementary hormones, you essentially speedrun osteoporosis over the course of a few years.

I'm not too clear on other effects, but a lot of things are downstream of "your bones slowly melt," and lots of other parts of your body rely on sex hormones to regulate them and will have long-term issues without them.

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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Abolish prisons immediately.

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