Nebraska is imposing a 7-day wait for trans youth to start gender-affirming medications

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 3:54 PM EDT, October 1, 2023


Nebraska is requiring transgender youth seeking gender-affirming care to wait seven days to start puberty blocking medications or hormone treatments under emergency regulations announced Sunday by the state health department.

The regulations also require transgender minors to undergo at least 40 hours of “gender-identity-focused” therapy that are “clinically neutral” before receiving any medical treatments meant to affirm their gender identities. A new law that took effect Sunday bans gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth under 19 and also required the state’s chief medical officer to spell out when and how those youth can receive other care.

The state Department of Health and Human Services announcement that Republican Gov. Jim Pillen had approved the emergency regulations came after families, doctors and even lawmakers said they had largely gotten no response from the department on when the regulations would be in place. They worried that Pillen’s administration was slow-walking them to block treatments for transgender youth who hadn’t already started them.

“The law went into effect today, which is when the emergency regulations were put in place,” department spokesperson Jeff Powell said in an email Sunday to The Associated Press. “Nothing was slow-walked.” The new regulations remain in effect while the department takes public comments on a permanent set of rules. The agency said it plans to release a proposed final version by the end of October and then have a public hearing on Nov. 28 in Lincoln, the state capital.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-minors-nebraska-genderaffirming-care-6c2530ba89e90cff64119548b61f7049

[Freethinker65]

1. How long do impotent Christian males have to wait to for Viagra prescriptions?

Isn't it God's will that they remain flaccid?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Let's all make public comments on other people's health care choices.

I want an entourage of misfits in my doctor's office with me. He'll like that too.

[area51]

3. And to think that the nazi party told us that if we went to universal healthcare

in the US, the govt. would interfere with our care.

Trans rights are human rights.

[dpibel]

4. Bizarro world

It's as if these goobers think that a kid can just walk into a doctor's office, get scrip, and start blocking that puberty.

I mean, by the time a kid is getting a prescription for puberty blockers, they've been thinking about it for a long time. Seven more days really isn't going to be the come to Jesus moment Nebraska legislators seem to think it will be.

[Chi67]

5. WTF?

7 more days after being through all the counseling is really not going to change a trans person's mind. Get the GQP out of office!

[tonekat]

6. Do they make gun buyers wait?

I mean, if someone wants to buy a deadly weapon, I think the waiting period should be a lot longer than seven days.

[Kennah]

8. No waiting period and they just passed permitless carry

[Oneironaut]

7. "Clinically neutral" is such a nonsense arbitrary term.

Neutral according to who? Who decides who is “biased?”

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

9. "Clinically neutral"

Having no idea what they meant by that and not willing to dig further into their diseased thinking, I decided it mean treatments that had no basis in clinical science to treatments that had been clinically tested adn been shown to have no effect. Therefore neutral.

Seven days does not seem long in such an already lengthy process. But it also seems senseless and more than a little spiteful. I am more concerned with the 40hrs of forced "counselling".

Somehow, I doubt it will be to the benefit of the patient. And could be a horrendous experience depending on the content and delivery.