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   novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 01:12:17 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

   Nebraska mandates trans kids undergo a mandatory five months of conversion therapy — which is inherently what any "non gender affirming" care is — before being able to access proper medical care.

   "A new set of regulations released on Monday morning by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services spells out several new restriction on transgender youth in the state. The restrictions, allowed under a new law passed by the Nebraska legislature this year, would curtail gender affirming care for those under the age of 19, the age of majority in the state. While several restrictions are poised to create hurdles for those seeking care, one in particular stands out as especially troubling: a mandate that all trans youth seeking treatment undergo five months of therapy that is “not in a gender affirming context,” a nod to a novel form of conversion therapy championed by those opposed to gender-affirming care."

   https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nebraska-to-force-5-months-of-non

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 01:15:46 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     "Collectively, these guidelines champion a new form of conversion therapy dubbed “Gender Exploratory Therapy.” Despite its innocuous name, this therapy seeks to explore all possible causes for a transgender person to experience gender dysphoria other than genuine transness. It's important to highlight that the patient being transgender is never deemed an acceptable conclusion. Treatments are perpetually dangled just beyond reach until the trans youth believes they are not actually transgender, that too much time has elapsed and puberty has induced too many changes for a successful transition, or they turn 18 and age out of care."

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 01:17:21 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     "Mirroring crisis pregnancy centers, these tactics are deployed under the pretense of “alternative care” and “neutral treatment,” despite the deception inherent in the care provided. The duplicity surrounding gender exploratory therapy is evident in its founders, its practitioners, and on the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association’s (GETA) own website. One of GETA's co-founders, Lisa Marchiano, was implicated in leaked emails of a working group seeking to ban gender-affirming care nationwide. In these correspondences, she employs the far-right doxxing website Kiwifarms to relay information about a transgender activist to Fox News. Although the GETA website presents the practice as “care without pushing a political agenda,” it conspicuously displays a brief aimed at blocking Title IX anti-discrimination protections for transgender youth. Evidently, “value neutral, non-ideological care” is a misnomer for this form of therapy."

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 01:18:15 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     The only kind of "value neutral" care possible is care that puts the values and goals and desires of the person receiving that care at the forefront. Otherwise the inherent properties of the person providing care getting to decide when care has been successful and when it hasn't and what to orient care towards to attempt to achieve and what care to employ inherently involves values.

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     doe (exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 13:48:47 JST doe

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     @anarchopunk_girl this is fucking awful to hear

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