When I, A Trans Person, Spoke to a Bioethicist About Consequences

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/01/gov-dewine-signs-executive-order-banning-transgender-surgery-on-minors.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">admits</a> that <a href="https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/01/05/ohio-gov-dewine-signs-executive-order-banning-hospitals-from-gender-transition-surgeries-on-minors/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">no Ohio clinic performs gender-affirming surgery on minors</a>. You can <a href="https://youtu.be/hcwW5XWd7pc?si=xhp0RrlBrIT0UMck&t=274" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">listen to him say it</a> on January 5: “there’s very little [evidence] that that is occurring.” Yet at that very hour, he signed an executive order on an “emergency” basis to prevent trans kids from getting the surgery he said they’re not getting. At the signing, DeWine announced draft rules that will make life harder for adults too. It’s a de facto ban on gender-affirming care at any age. He said he’d show the draft rules to legislators and file them for public comment. As <a href="https://youtu.be/hcwW5XWd7pc?si=Kmua13hRTtnRxiPu&t=123" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">he described the rules verbally</a> (2:03–2:38), they include: <a href="https://tuckerlieberman.medium.com/transgender-bioethicist-consequences-c4b783173c77">Click Here</a>