John Oliver: “To trans children in Alabama right now…you are important. Your lives are important. I cannot imagine trying to build self-esteem in childhood as your own government attempts to undermine your very existence.”
dedicated the top of his show Sunday evening to Alabama, whose governor, Kay Ivey, passed a “transgender youth ban,” making it a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for doctors to provide medication to transgender people under the age of 19.,” remarked Oliver. “Nobody should ever be facing criminal punishment for providing health care to young people.”
The ad prompted Oliver to exclaim, “Fuck you!” to Ivey, before explaining, “The truth is: The major medical associations oppose bans on gender-affirming care and with good reason because itOliver then threw to an interview with, who said, “If I did stop my gender-affirming care, my physical outside wouldn’t reflect who I was inside, and that would, like, completely destroy me mentally and physically.
Also, gender-confirmation surgery isn’t even a factor for minors in Alabama. As Dr. Morissa Ladinsky explained to the Alabama Legislature last year: “Here’s what we do and what we don’t: Genital surgery is never performed on minors in Alabama. Puberty-blocking medications are 100 percent reversible and can be life-saving.
On Friday, a federal judge issued an injunction on the ban, barring them from enforcing part of the law—namely, the ban on access to medication—though they’re working on filing an appeal.
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