Author: Kira

Becoming the person I was meant to be.

GRS Surgeon Kathy Rumer is using a right-wing legal team to harass her own patients

Kathy Lynn Rumer.DO is a GRS Surgeon in Ardmore PA, She has a long track record of questionable to downright horrific results when it comes to her patients. It has come to light recently that Rumer is suing two of her low income trans patients for blowing the whistle. Kathy Rumer has employed the help of a right wing legal team (Rogers Castor) to drag one of her patients to court next Monday (August 15th.) This patient’s medical records and personal information will be on full display to the public if this trial proceeds next week, worse yet. A Trump appointed judge (Chad Kenney) with a history of anti LGBTQ stances will be presiding over the case.

In a time when Republicans and far right groups are attacking abortion and trans rights this affront cannot stand. Kathy Rumer can no longer call herself an “ally” of our community when she is working with right wing lawyers to silence and intimidate her own patients.

Sources can be found here: linktr.ee/resignrumer

Linn-Mar lawsuit ignores rights of transgender kids

Linn-Mar lawsuit ignores rights of transgender kids

So the battle over Linn-Mar’s efforts to support transgender students is headed to federal court.

Parents Defending Education, a national organization “working to reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas,” according to its website, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on behalf of seven parents living in the district. Linn-Mar has a middle school and high school enrollment of more than 3,300 students.

How Florida Twisted Science to Deny Healthcare to Trans Kids

How Florida Twisted Science to Deny Healthcare to Trans Kids

VICE News spoke to 10 researchers who weren’t aware their work was being used for Florida’s anti-trans agenda—and said it’s being misrepresented.

“NO, this is NOT an appropriate use of our work. This does not mean denying transgender youth and certainly not gender-affirming care!”

Anon

Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents in the United States

Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents in the United States

Representatives of some pediatric gender clinics have reported an increase in transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adolescents presenting for care who were assigned female sex at birth (AFAB) relative to those assigned male sex at birth (AMAB). These data have been used to suggest that youth come to identify as TGD because of “social contagion,” with the underlying assumption that AFAB youth are uniquely vulnerable to this hypothesized phenomenon. Reported changes in the AMAB:AFAB ratio have been cited in recent legislative debates regarding the criminalization of gender-affirming medical care. Our objective was to examine the AMAB:AFAB ratio among United States TGD adolescents in a larger and more representative sample than past clinic-recruited samples.

What legendary trans elder Donna Personna’s extraordinary life teaches us about chosen family

What legendary trans elder Donna Personna’s extraordinary life teaches us about chosen family

When filmmaker Jay Bedwani glimpsed a woman in a long, red, sequinned dress at a pool party in San Francisco a decade ago, he had no idea it would be the start of a long, profound creative relationship.

Florida medical board to weigh blocking treatments for transgender youth

Florida medical board to weigh blocking treatments for transgender youth

The Florida Board of Medicine is slated Friday to consider a proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to bar physicians from providing treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking medication to transgender youths.

The state Department of Health last week filed a petition asking the board, which regulates medical doctors, to start a rule-making process on the contentious issue. The move came as the state Agency for Health Care Administration also plans to prevent the Medicaid program from covering such treatments for gender dysphoria.

The petition, which is on the agenda for a Board of Medicine meeting in Broward County, proposes what is known as a “standard of care” that would prohibit patients under age 18 from receiving sex-reassignment surgery and puberty-blocking, hormone and hormone “antagonist” treatments. It also would require that older patients sign a consent form and then wait 24 hours before starting such treatments.

Another step in the wrong direction

GOP passes bill aiming to root out ‘suspected’ transgender female athletes with genital inspection

House Republican lawmakers in Ohio passed a bill at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday night that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in high school and college athletics. It also comes with a “verification process” of checking the genitals of those “accused” of being trans.

The ‘Save Women’s Sports Act,’ or House Bill 61, wasn’t supposed to be on the schedule for legislators originally. However, at the last minute, Republican representatives added the language to a completely different bill.

H.B. 151 would revise Ohio’s Teacher Residency Program, trying to reduce state control in schools. The bill, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Don Jones, from Freeport, got a surprise addition.