https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5104225/transgender-teens-gender-affirming-care-bans-iowa-minneapolis
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Her state bans gender-affirming care for teenagers. So she travels 450 miles for it.
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"We're not going to use the real name for reasons of safety" but then they publish a photo which is probably easily identifiable. Way to go, NPR!
Anyway, this kid is neurodivergent/neurodivergent (you can tell just by the facial expression) and why are they wearing a rosary around their neck? It's not jewellery. Probably wearing it for some kind of goth aesthetic, and for that alone I'd like to slap them even sillier than they already are.
Parents are divorced - what a surprise. Mom knew her baby was trans even before the kid came out as trans, that would be when the kid was about 10 years old (going by dates and age given in the story).
So kid is neurodivergent or other problem, mom is attention-seeking, this is a great way to Munchausen's By Proxy your vulnerable kid so you can have something exciting in dull, boring, farmland Iowa.
Kid 'comes out' as trans to their friends aged 13. Again, what a surprise. Mommy seems to be really pushing the trans narrative:
This kid is ruined, let's hope that after Mommy pushes them out of the nest, she won't move on to the next kid in line to give her something to talk to the papers about.
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Member how before this was a thing ethical doctors would do, the trains flew to Thailand or Brazil to get the surgery done and didn't b-word about it?
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Somehow it's totally different for abortion.
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related threads https://old.reddit.com/r/NPR/comments/1fqqh06/her_state_bans_genderaffirming_care_for_teenagers/
https://old.reddit.com/r/NPR/comments/1fqqh06/her_state_bans_genderaffirming_care_for_teenagers/
unequivocal YASS KWEEN IN THERE !transphobes
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Omaha won't do it, in 250 miles?
Kansas City won't do it, in 300 miles?
based Midwest
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!chuds
These are the trans cuties (((they))) make you hate.
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!chuds
ticers
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Either be the dad that steps up or STOP HATING TRANS PEOPLE!
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she prob "knew" when the her son started wearing her panties
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Calling a teenager a "cutie". Darn dude.
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This but unironically lol
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It's okay, he's German
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it's a professional photograph of a
wearing loose clothing. He's not cute.
also he has a very masculine face
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What surgery fixes the broad shoulders?
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They just snip a little bit out of the middle of your clavicles and scapulas, push the shoulders together, then glue the bones back together. EZ
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plus he's a ginger...this kid never stood a chance...
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Hard-hitting journ*lism right there, glad they agreed to bestow that fact upon us. It would change absolutely everything if they fired up the ol' Mr Coffee maker or took bottled water with them.
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No. This is how journ*lists let you hate people from hundreds of miles away. It's literal dogwhistling. Journoids engage in it all the time. I.e. the shitrag dailies' constant innovation in coming up with euphemisms for black teenagers. NPR is intended for a semiliterate audience, so they have to be subtler.
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holy shit is she r-slurred?
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Possibly not quite 17 yet, or the reporter got the dates wrong. Kid does look neurodivergent/other kind of disorder in some way by their facial expression.
Also, I am really pissed that Mommy is not teaching her "daughter" how to dress appropriately. Kid is in the usual trans girl cutie outfit of spaghetti straps top with the bra straps showing, and it's plainly not the kind of weather for that outfit. Mommy is wearing a t-shirt and jacket, but although she's willing to drive 450 miles for a medical appointment, she can't tell the kid "put a jacket on, it's cold out"?
I think Mommy has been pushing for a trans cutie "daughter" ever since that speaker came to the school and is encouraging the kid to look and act like the online stereotypes.
This time, I really do blame the parent(s).
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seems more likely they'd get it wrong the other direction (asking "how old are you?" but not checking if their birthday falls before the publish date of the article)
and more likely they just got held back
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It was 80 degrees in Des Moines today and the article was prob written/researched this summer.
Also, says the kid has a summer birthday, probably before August, which means they're on the far end of their age cohort for public school. They'll be 17 as their junior year, 18 as a senior, then turn 19 right after graduating.
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she's literally just a girl okay?
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stop calling me "they" cute twink, you either call me "she" or misgender me like a real man
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