It’ll take settlements orders of magnitude higher to slow or stop the medicalized mutilation of children that is “gender affirming care,” but they will come. Just wait. Promising the impossible to children makes for hurt, angry teens and young adults. Not all of them are going to be willing to stay the course and continue their “gender journeys” to nowhere. Some small percentage will seek legal recourse against those who claimed they could do the impossible, and a small percentage demanding big bucks is all it will take. What is the going rate for genital mutilation, sterility, bone loss, and stunted cognitive development? Once insurers have to start footing the bill, you might just see the wheels come off the rainbow bandwagon.
It’ll take settlements orders of magnitude higher to slow or stop the medicalized mutilation of children that is “gender affirming care,” but they will come. Just wait. Promising the impossible to children makes for hurt, angry teens and young adults. Not all of them are going to be willing to stay the course and continue their “gender journeys” to nowhere. Some small percentage will seek legal recourse against those who claimed they could do the impossible, and a small percentage demanding big bucks is all it will take. What is the going rate for genital mutilation, sterility, bone loss, and stunted cognitive development? Once insurers have to start footing the bill, you might just see the wheels come off the rainbow bandwagon.