Athletic Equality Specific Sex
History of this bill in Florida http://www.embracelife911.org/promoting-equality-athletic-opportunity
MY LETTER: (feel free to cut and paste/modify please add personal note if possible
SB 1028 Thank you supporting amendment equal athletic opportunity in Florida
Thank you for preserving the integrity of women’s sports; boys who self-identify as a girl should not under any circumstance be allowed to compete in girls’ sports. The performance gap males have over females is insurmountable. This gap allows boys to have a significant competitive advantage in sports while increasing the potential for girls to be injured.
If you voted against this bill it is incredibly sad that you allowed politics to interfere with the safety, health and competitiveness of girls’ athletics. Many girls in competitive sports have been working hard with a goal of obtaining a college scholarship which they are being deprived of when a boy is allowed to participate in ‘girls’ sports. By definition, participants should be only girls.
The clarification of using an original birth certificate takes guessing out of the scenario which should have been common sense not something that had to be voted on.
It is my hope that other states will take Florida's lead on this issue and pass similar bills. Also, next year we should make a priority a bill that would prohibiting sex modification until 21 years of age.
Sponsor Senator Kelly Stagel stargel.kelli.web@flsenate.gov 850-487-5022
Sponsor Representative KayleeTuck kaylee.tuck@myfloridahouse.gov 850-717-5055
Representative Toledo 850-717-5060 jackie.toledo@myfloridahouse.gov
TERMS:
- Gender identity disorder, gender dysphoria, Sex reassignment surgery, sex modification, sex conversion
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There is a unique difference between male and female/ boys and girls. Whether a person chooses to identify as another gender it doesn't change who you are or who God made you.
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- VERSUS Gender-Affirming, Gender Confirmation, Gender-normalizing, Misgendered,
- (Called life-saving treatment yet we know suicide rates increase along with mental health issues) see below
Great resources for research and personal details on sex-changes https://sexchangeregret.com/research/
Sports comparison: https://law.duke.edu/sports/sex-sport/comparative-athletic-performance/
If you know sport, you know this beyond a reasonable doubt: there is an average 10-12% performance gap between elite males and elite females. The gap is smaller between elite females and non-elite males, but it’s still insurmountable and that’s ultimately what matters. Translating these statistics into real world results, we see, for example,….
https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/UDCMJ9 John-Hopkins article
He also reported on a new study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people.
transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder
The transgendered person’s disorder, said Dr. McHugh, is in the person’s “assumption” that they are different than the physical reality of their body, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature. It is a disorder similar to a “dangerously thin” person suffering anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are “overweight,” said McHugh.
This assumption, that one’s gender is only in the mind regardless of anatomical reality, has led some transgendered people to push for social acceptance and affirmation of their own subjective “personal truth,”
Also, for those who had sexual reassignment surgery, most said they were “satisfied” with the operation “but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have the surgery.”
“And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a ‘satisfied’ but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs,” said Dr. McHugh.
Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”
NOTE in 2020 the researchers “reevaluated” this study and different conclusions were reached… https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31581798/ original article
In this study, the researchers analyzed medical outcomes between 2005 and 2015 for 2,679 individuals in the Swedish population who had received a diagnosis of gender incongruence.
The study found that transgender individuals who had received a diagnosis of gender incongruence were:
- six times more likely to have a mood or anxiety disorder than the general population.
- three times as likely to be prescribed antidepressants and antianxiety medications.
- more than six times as likely to attempt suicide resulting in hospitalization.
The study also found that transgender individuals who had undergone gender-affirming surgery were significantly less likely to seek mental health treatment for depression and anxiety disorders as a function of years since the procedure. THIS CONCLUSION WAS CORRECTED AS EVIDENCE AND DATA DID NOT RESULT IN THE ABOVE STATEMENT’S OUTCOME.
See below:
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.1778correction
After the article “Reduction in Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Transgender Individuals After Gender-Affi rming Surgeries: A Total Population Study” by Richard Bränström, Ph.D., and John E. Pachankis, Ph.D. (doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19010080), was pub-lished online on October 4, 2019, some letters containing questions on the statistical methodology employed in the study led the Journalto seek statistical consultations. The results of these consultations were presented to the study authors, who concurred with many of the points raised. Upon request, the authors reanalyzed the data to compare outcomes between individuals diagnosed with gender incongru-ence who had received gender-affi rming surgical treatments and those diagnosed with gender incongruence who had not. While this comparison was performed retrospectively and was not part of the original research question given that several other factors may diff er between the groups, the results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care visits or prescriptions or hospitalizations following suicide attempts in that comparison. Given that the study used neither a prospec-tive cohort design nor a randomized controlled trial design, the conclusion that “the longitudinal association between gender-affi rming surgery and lower use of mental health treatment lends support to the decision to provide gender-affi rming surgeries to transgender in-dividuals who seek them” is too strong. Finally, although the percentage of individuals with a gender incongruence diagnosis who had received gender-affi rming surgical treatments during the follow-up period is correctly reported in Table 3 (37.9%), the text incorrectly refers to this percentage as 48%. The article was reposted on August 1, 2020, correcting this percentage and including an addendum ref-erencing the postpublication discussion captured in the Letters to the Editor section of the August 2020 issue of the Journal (
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19111151
No matter what your views on the entire transgender issue may be, adults are entitled to make decisions as to what they do with their own bodies, provided they are willing to take responsibility for the consequences if they wind up regretting those decisions later. I would not support any sort of blanket government ban on these procedures.
But when it comes to the safety of children, there is more than ample precedent to say that such state protections are called for. The state bears a responsibility to ensure the proper care for those who are too young to provide informed consent and it’s traditionally not seen as government overreach. For example, a school nurse who gives an aspirin to a minor student without parental permission can lose their job. A tattoo artist who inks someone that’s age 17 or younger can go to jail. Nobody argues with those rules. But even in those cases, the risk or damage is limited at best and far from permanent.
Liberal DEM: TALKING POINTS https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-16/children-wanting-surgical-gender-change-no-longer-need-court/9557444
The court heard evidence from a doctor who said the treatment could be life-saving. He said the effect of denying the treatment to Matthew "would likely be extreme distress, low mood and the potential for worsening suicidal ideation".
Another doctor told the court the surgery often had "immediate and profound therapeutic benefit".
"The individual is able to wear clothing that is congruent with their gender, has much less fear of being misgendered as a female or having their transgender status unwantedly discovered by others, and can move freely and participate in a broad range of desired social and sporting activities."
The reprieve I experienced through surgery was only temporary. Hidden underneath the makeup and female clothing was the little boy hurt by childhood trauma. I was once again experiencing gender dysphoria, but this time I felt like a male inside a body refashioned to look like a woman. I was living my dream, but still I was deeply suicidal.
A gender specialist told me to give it more time. Eight years seemed like an awfully long time to me. Nothing made sense. Why hadn’t the recommended hormones and surgery worked? Why was I still distressed about my gender identity? Why wasn’t I happy being Laura? Why did I have strong desires to be Walt again?
With expert guidance, I dared to revisit the emotional trauma of my youth. It wasn’t easy, but it was the only way to address the underlying conditions driving my gender dysphoria.
You will hear the media say, “Regret is rare.” But they are not reading my inbox, which is full of messages from transgender individuals who want the life and body back that was taken from them by cross-sex hormones, surgery and living under a new identity.
After de-transitioning, I know the truth: Hormones and surgery may alter appearances, but nothing changes the immutable fact of your sex.
Walt Heyer is a former transgender woman who provides support to others who regret gender change at SexChangeRegret.com. He is the author of "Trans Life Survivors."
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