North Carolina Bans “Gender-affirming Care” for Kids Under 18

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North Carolina became the 22nd state this week to ban the chemical castration and genital mutilation of mentally ill kids under 18 who believe or have been brainwashed to believe they are the “wrong gender.”

The GOP-controlled Legislature overrode leftist Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of legislation that banned the dangerous, life-altering procedures.

That isn’t the way the leftist, tranny-obsessed media played the story. No matter, sexually confused or mentally ill youngsters in the Tarheel State won’t wake up one day 10 years from now to wonder who destroyed their lives with surgeries more fitting for the Island of Dr. Moreau.

The Legislature also banned “transgirls” and “transwomen” — meaning boys and men who wrongly think they are women — from playing women’s sports.

The Bills

House Bill 808 bans almost all “gender-affirming care,” as leftists misleadingly call it, except for cases that began before August 1, or in kids diagnosed with a real medical condition.

That would include kids with a “medically verifiable disorder of sex development, including a person with external biological sex characteristics that are unresolvedly ambiguous, such as those born with 46 XX chromosomes with virilization, 46 XY chromosomes with under-virilization, or having both ovarian and testicular tissue.”

Other than them and few others, “it shall be unlawful for a medical professional to perform a surgical gender transition procedure on a minor or to prescribe, provide, or dispense puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones to a minor.”

That means kids who spend too much time on TikTok listening to groomers and sex perverts won’t be permitted to take hormones or chop off penises or breasts, procedures deceptively called top and bottom surgeries.

House Bill 574, the Fairness In Women’s Sports Act is also a blow for sanity. It says boys can’t pretend their girls:

1. Each team shall be expressly designated by the biological sex of the team participants as one of the following:

I. Males, men, or boys.

II. Females, women, or girls.

III. Coed or mixed.

2. Athletic teams designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex.

3. For purposes of this sub-subdivision, a student’s sex shall be recognized based solely on the student‘s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

So, boys and men who are third-tier athletes in men’s sports can no longer pretend to be girls and women and dominate their sports, as has man-lady college swimmer “Lia” Thomas.

Reaction

Organized Grooming, Inc., and its legislative fellow travelers collapsed in a conniption.

“Democratic Sen. Lisa Grafstein, North Carolina’s only out LGBTQ+ state senator, said the gender-affirming care bill ‘may be the most heartbreaking bill in a truly heartbreaking session,’” the Associated Press reported.

Another legislator, who thinks he has a “transgender grandchild,” was so upset he “choked up while debating the gender-affirming care bill on the House floor.”

“Just stop it,” Rep. John Autry wailed.

And, of course, AP found some crazy parents who might move out of the Tarheel State because the Legislature won’t validate their patent madness:

Parents of trans and nonbinary children, like Elizabeth Waugh of Orange County, said before the voting that they have been weighing whether to move their families out of North Carolina so their children will have unrestricted access to gender-affirming health care.

Waugh’s nonbinary child did not begin receiving treatment before Aug. 1 and would need to travel elsewhere if they want to start taking hormones.

“I have felt like I had a lump in my throat for months,” she said. “Just talking to other families who are dealing with this, I mean, the pain that they are feeling, the suffering, the fear for their children — it’s devastating.”

As are life-altering hormone treatment and mutilation surgeries from which recovery is impossible.

“Transgenders” Don’t Exist

So-called transgenders are merely either aroused at the idea of dressing and behaving as the opposite sex or suffering with gender dysphoria, the false belief that they are the wrong “gender.”

Paul McHugh, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, has explained that the condition is similar to anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder.

“Its treatment should not be directed at the body as with surgery and hormones any more than one treats obesity-fearing anorexic patients with liposuction,” he wrote in 2015:

The treatment should strive to correct the false, problematic nature of the assumption and to resolve the psychosocial conflicts provoking it. With youngsters, this is best done in family therapy.

Yet that isn’t happening because groomers and sex perverts have conned everyone into believing their false and dangerous narrative; i.e., that “trans kids” need “gender-affirming care.”

That narrative has the full support of the United States government through its No. 2 health official, “Rachel” Levine, real name Richard. Levine, a mentally ill man who masquerades as a woman, advocates chemical castration to stop kids from going through the “wrong puberty.”

Wrote McHugh:

The idea that one’s sex is fluid and a matter open to choice runs unquestioned through our culture and is reflected everywhere in the media, the theater, the classroom, and in many medical clinics. It has taken on cult-like features: its own special lingo, internet chat rooms providing slick answers to new recruits, and clubs for easy access to dresses and styles supporting the sex change. It is doing much damage to families, adolescents, and children and should be confronted as an opinion without biological foundation wherever it emerges.

Good thing sane legislators nationwide are fighting back. These states have banned or restricted chemical castration and genital mutilation: