Jamie Reed: Good morning, my name is Jamie Reed. I am also a homosexual, like Joe. I'm a lesbian and a former case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center Children's Hospital, where I worked with nearly 1,500 unique patients.

I left that clinic because I could no longer participate in what I witnessed, which is exactly what this bill is seeking to endorse: a gender affirmation-only model. I provided an affidavit to the Attorney General as a lifelong Democrat, knowing what it would cost me. Kids are being harmed and no one inside the system would say so.

Dr. Burgo and I are both homosexuals. That matters this month. Pride was never just a celebration. It was people with everything to lose refusing to be silent. I am honored to sit beside him as so many adult gays and lesbians are coming to fully understand what is at stake when the question at hand for children is a gender identity.

SB 934 would silence the next clinician who has doubts. Its definition of prohibited change efforts exposes any therapist who wants to slow a patient down who is on a path to medically change their body, explore whether distress has other roots, or ask simply about their sexual orientation.

The kids that I saw in my clinic were not a monolith Many were autistic. Many had significant trauma. Many had come through the foster care system, a system I know as an adopted lesbian parent of three kids from that system. These kids deserve clinicians and laws to support them as clinicians who would be able to permit them to ask why.

Kids came in distressed, and they left with prescriptions. This bill will not protect autistic children, traumatized young people, or those in foster care. And in this month of Pride, it will not protect gay youth because what we know is most gender non-conforming kids will grow up to be gay if we just left them alone.

I was meaning to have this out in June during Pride month because of how the TQ+ has overtaken the LGB (Gay Community) but I didn't get it finished in time. That said, here are some pro gender nonconforming & LGB PSA art. There is no such thing as "trans" anything period.

-Men are adult human males

-Women are adult human females

But then she has to concede that this new technology, like most others, also affected women negatively because men immediately started using it for porn (& to harm women, since that is the main purpose of porn). “The diffusion of the telephone facilitated the intrusion of pornography into the home, not only through intrusive and abusive telephone calls made by men to women, but also through the development of sexual services over the phone.” The same thing happened with the internet of course, but before the internet there was also the French Minitel service, which was a kind of small TV screen linked to your telephone that allowed for proto-emailing and instant messaging—and a study by the French government found that the Minitel “vastly contributed to the propagation of hardcore pornography”, notably the sale and purchase of paedophilic content.

and the fandom adds another layer to how the world reacts to trans women. all of that shit happened, and now just because he died/abstracted, and showed fear, that was enough to absolve him of being a cruel monster to the fanbase. and now they talk about 'i wish pomni did this, i wish pomni did that', passing the responsibility to the only woman that tried her fucking best to be a friend and show him he didnt have to be cruel. they either paint her as manipulative for wanting to change him, or as inadequate for not being able to save him from and ending he lead himself to. she was willing to hug him the entire time he abstracted, which wouldve lead her to abstract as well. ie she wouldve given her life to help a man that maybe technically cared about her but did his best to treat her like dirt so he wouldnt have to think about it. sure, yeah, pomnis the asshole here.