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West Virginia court rules that gender-affirming surgery should be paid for by tax payer, in landmark decision

Gender-affirming surgery must be paid for by state healthcare plans, a Richmond court has ruled.

The federal appeals court is the first in the country to say that transition should be covered for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance.

The decision arose out of a set of cases in North Carolina and West Virginia, in which transgender residents argued that their surgeries should be funded by either employee health plans or state-subsidized Medicaid.

State officials said that their policy of not covering transgender surgeries was based on financial concerns and not bias.

But the Richmond-based 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case on Monday.

The courts decision does not mean that transition will automatically be covered for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance. The ruling could be appealed in the Supreme Court, which recently allowed Idaho to enforce a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. 

But the powerful Court has been somewhat unwilling to engage on the issue and has allowed multiple 4th Circuit rulings supporting transgender rights stand.

In West Virginia, transgender Medicaid users challenged the state’s policy, which has by law banned the funding of ‘transsexual surgeries’ since 2004. 

In North Carolina, state employees challenged their coverage which has not covered surgeries for gender dysphoria since 2018.

In January, Ohio become the 23rd state to ban transgender care for minors, amid a wave of laws passed by Republican-controlled legislatures in recent years.

‘The coverage exclusions discriminate on the basis of sex and gender identity, and are not substantially related to an important government interest,’ Judge Roger Gregory, first appointed by former President Bill Clinton and re-appointed by former President George W. Bush, wrote in the majority opinion.

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Scientific American Claims It Is “Misinformation” That There Are Just Two Sexes

Scientific American has published a piece claiming that “misinformation,” such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is “being used against transgender people” and in order to target “gender-affirming medical care.”

The article states that there are three types of “misinformation,” and they are “oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences.”

The piece asserts that “Many of the arguments against trans rights center on the idea that transness itself is not legitimate—that there are just two sexes, period.”

There are only two sexes though.

It then turns to ‘scientist’ Simón(e) Sun, a self described trans(sexual) ándrógýne \ (neuro)biologist, pronouns in bio person and notes “You describe this idea as ‘sex essentialism.’ Can you explain that term, and talk about how it shapes the debate.”

They/she then states “Essentialism is the idea that you can take any phenomenon that is complex and distill it down to a particular set of traits. In the case of sex essentialism, the idea is that you can sufficiently describe sex by a few particular characteristics. In this debate, it used to be chromosomes, now it’s gametes (egg and sperm cells).”

Yeah, that is biology 101 and no matter how many times they/she says it’s changed and that anyone who doesn’t agree is a ‘transphobe’, it hasn’t.

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Biden Regime Proudly Abolishes Title IX – Will Now Force Women to Allow Biological Men in Their Locker Rooms, On their Team Sports and in Their Bathrooms

On Friday, the Biden regime proudly announced that women will be forced to allow men in their locker rooms and bathrooms with a new 1577-page Title IX ruling.

Women will be forced to compete against men.

And women will be forced to accept men on their sports teams.

Women and young girls will be forced to share locker rooms and bathrooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex.

And, as May Mailman, Director of Independent Women’s Law Center, notes, Title IX is not a college law.  This will impact girls as young as those in the Headstart program, geared to children from three to five-years old, those in daycare, and those in Kindergarten through 12th grade.

Young girls everywhere will be subject to the type of sexual exposure allegedly faced by the female athletes forced to share a locker room with trans swimmer Lia Thomas.

Preferred pronouns are also now mandated, and even the single use of the “wrong” pronoun can require discipline.

They believe this is progress.

Title IX is now a thing of the past.

The new rules cement protections for L.G.B.T.Q. students under federal law. Additionally, it reverses Trump-era policies, including one that protects women by dictating how schools should respond to cases of alleged sexual misconduct in K-12 schools and college campuses.

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Court Overturns West Virginia Transgender Sports Ban

A federal appeals court has blocked a West Virginia law that banned students from participating in single-sex sports teams that don’t match their biological sex.

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order and opinion on April 16 that blocks enforcement of the Save Women’s Sports Bill on grounds that the law violated the constitutional rights of the plaintiff, a 13-year-old eighth-grade track athlete who was born male but identifies as female.

The measure was signed into law by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in 2021. It was quickly challenged in court by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which brought the lawsuit on behalf of Becky Pepper-Jackson, the transgender student who was prevented from joining the girls’ cross-country team.

The ACLU argued that Becky Pepper-Jackson (referred to in court filings by the initials B.P.J.), who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2019 and was treated with puberty blockers followed by “gender-affirming” hormone therapy, never underwent male puberty and so doesn’t have any athletic advantage over naturally-born girls.

The group claimed that the West Virginia law discriminated against children like B.P.J. “on the basis of sex and transgender status” in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Title IX, including the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits a state from denying a person within its jurisdiction “equal protection of the laws.”

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Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Refuses to Say Whether Men and Women ‘Are Physically Different’

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona refused to answer whether or not men and women have physical differences during a House Appropriations Committee budget hearing on Wednesday.

The question asked to Cardona during the budget hearing was in reference to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announcing on Monday that they are blocking males who identify as females from playing in women’s sports.

During the hearing, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) questioned Cardona about the importance of Title IX before questioning him on the physical differences between men and women, according to the Daily Caller.

Title IX is the federal civil rights law that protects individuals from sexual discrimination in educational programs and activities that receive financial assistance from the federal government, according to Thomson Reuters.

“Would you agree that Title IX was necessary to help establish women’s sports because women can’t fairly be expected to compete on biological male teams?” Harris asked Cardona.

While Cardona initially attempted to skirt the question, after being asked by Harris not to filibuster, he agreed that Title IX is important.

Harris then asked Cardona if he would “agree that women are physically different from men.”

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CANADA: Non-Binary Diaper Fetishist Successfully Wins Case To Have The Government Fund Surgery That Will Construct Him A Penis And A Vagina

A trans-identified man and diaper fetishist in Canada who identifies as “non-binary” has won his legal case against the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) to have them pay for an experimental surgery that would leave him with both his penis and a “neo-vagina.” Ontario taxpayers will now be forced to spend up to $70,000 flying him to Texas for the surgery due to its unavailability in Canada.

The man, 33, was simply identified as KS in the lawsuit, and made international headlines last week after Ontario’s Divisional Court began deliberating on whether he was entitled to have an “penis-preserving vaginoplasty” covered by the province’s public health scheme.

This week, the court ruled 3-0 that KS was entitled to have the surgery funded by the taxpayer after finding that the province had incorporated standards written by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) into its health insurance law. These international standards endorse radical “gender affirming” surgeries far beyond the scope of Canadian surgical guidance, including castration.

Reduxx has now learned that KS celebrated the result on a Reddit board dedicated to “bigenital” people, revealing his social media handles and providing insight into the man behind the lawsuit.

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Mayo Clinic Study on Damage From Puberty Blockers Included ‘Transgender’ Two-Year-Old

A new study from the Mayo Clinic adds further evidence that puberty blockers are not reversible and can in fact create catastrophic, long-lasting consequences.

But it also shows how gender ideology continues to infect children at a younger and younger age – according to the study, the Mayo Clinic saw a two-year-old who it claimed had gender dysphoria.

“The average age at the time of gender transition and fertility preservation (FP) surgery is 8.1 (age range = 2—15; std deviation = 4.6) and 12.5-years old (age range = 10—16; std deviation = 1.8), respectively,” the authors of the preprint study wrote. “The average age of [puberty blocker] initiation is 12.1-years old (age range = 10—16.4; std deviation = 1.83).”

The study included 16 gender dysphoric males who took puberty blockers. “Two out of 9 PB-treated patients exhibited abnormalities: one had bilateral abnormal testicles with a lack of complete tunica albuginea, while another had a right testis that was not easily palpable,” the study found.

The researchers were able to compare the cells from these males with others who did not use puberty blockers to create a control group.

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Long-awaited Cass Report reveals potential extreme harm of sex change drugs, surgeries for minors

A UK doctor warned that private clinics are not providing proper assessment to children questioning their gender identity.

This, after the National Health Services of England (NHS) banned the prescription of puberty blockers for children at gender identity clinics last month.

In a groundbreaking review for the NHS, Dr. Hilary Cass found that the global clinical practice of prescribing hormones to minors under the age of 18 to halt puberty or transition to the opposite sex was not well-supported and that the entire field of medicine devoted to helping children change their gender had been “built on shaky foundations,” per The Times.

The review resulted in the NHS banning puberty blocker prescriptions for minors at government-owned facilities, but Dr. Cass warned “I do have concerns about private provision which is not providing the level of assessment that I’m recommending in the NHS.”

During a Wednesday appearance on BBC Radio 4’s “Today,” Dr. Cass said her team had “asked NHS England to provide advice to families about what it means if they go down a private route in terms of coming back into the NHS later.”

“Because of the toxicity of the debate, [children have] often been bypassed by local services who’ve been really nervous about seeing them. So rather than doing the things that they would do for other young people with depression or anxiety, or perhaps undiagnosed autistic spectrum disorder, they’ve tended to pass them straight on to the Gids service,” said Cass.

Dr. Cass, a former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said she wanted to “help clinicians from all backgrounds realize that they do have the transferable skills to see these young people.”

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Prominent LGBT activist faces humiliating reality check over suggestion that various animals are ‘biologically trans’

Aprominent LGBT activist took to X Sunday with the bold claim that there are at least 18 species of “biologically trans” animals. Australian leftist Peter Tatchell may have grown accustomed to passing off many of his radical views in the current political climate, but this particular suggestion died on arrival.

Tatchell has been roundly ridiculed over his post, which was also slapped with multiple community notes.

A history of bad takes

Tatchell has long courted controversy with his extreme views on sexuality. In the late 1990s, he argued that the United Kingdom should reduce the age of consent to 14.

The Critic reported that Tatchell wrote a letter to the Guardian in 1997, noting, “Ros Coward thinks that it is ‘shocking’ that Gay Men’s Press has published a book, ‘Dare to Speak,’ which challenges the assumption that all sex involving children and adults is abusive. I think it is courageous.”

Tatchell went on to reference “societies where consenting inter-generational sex is considered normal, beneficial and enjoyable by old and young alike.”

Later in the letter, Tatchell reportedly noted, “Several of my friends gay and straight male and female had sex with adults from the ages of 9 to 14. None feel they were abused.”

The activist apparently concluded the letter writing, “Whilst it may be impossible to condone paedophilia, it is time society acknowledged the truth that not all sex involving children is unwanted, abusive and harmful.”

In recent years, Tatchell has called for schools to teach kids “the whole truth about every kind of sex and relationship – including sexual practices that some people find distasteful, such as anal intercourse and sadomasochism” and to deny parents the ability to opt their kids out of such lessons.

Tatchell has also made clear he is not a single-issue leftist, having championed abortion; derided conservative lawmakers; embraced the Russian Collusion hoax; recommended a pause on eating meat; pushed climate alarmism; accused the monarchy of racism; and celebrated porn consumption.

There was an attempt in 2021 to rehabilitate Tatchell’s image in the form of Christopher Amos’ film, “Hating Peter Tatchell,” which stars Ian McKellan and counts Elton John as one of its executive producers. He may soon need a new Netflix special.

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Texas gender clinic performs experimental surgeries like ‘Barbie-dolling,’ nullification, giving patients both male and female genitals

A gender clinic in Texas has come under scrutiny for performing hundreds of unconventional and experimental genital surgeries. 

According to the Daily Mail, the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery, located in Austin, offers a range of surgeries catering to individuals who identify as transgender or non-binary. The clinic, nicknamed “Frankenstein’s Lab,” offers procedures that include the creation of both a penis and vagina in patients as well as the complete removal of sex organs, something critics are referring to as “barbie-dolling.” 

Dr. Curtis Crane, who heads the clinic, touts himself as one of the few practitioners skilled in both plastic surgery and urology, specializing in transgender surgery and reconstructive urology. 

“I can’t think of a time that a patient has come up with a surgical request that I haven’t been able to fulfill,” Crane said in a Facebook Live video in 2020. 

However, Crane and his clinic have faced at least eight lawsuits from former patients, who allege incorrect and unnecessary surgeries, negligence in addressing infections and complications, and misleading claims about success rates. 

The Crane Center reportedly performs over 200 top surgeries and 150 vaginoplasties annually, along with various other procedures involving the removal of healthy sex organs for transgender individuals. These practices have raised concerns among medical experts, as the long-term effects and complications of such surgeries remain inadequately researched. 

Nearly all procedures carried out by the Crane Center are covered by insurance, per the Daily Mail. However, Crane complained that this includes a mandatory mental health referral and specific diagnoses that may not align with what the patient is experiencing. 

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