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Today, the Reproductive Rights Caucus held a press conference in Hartford where, among other things, they promised to continue to defend the "right" to kill babies and the "right" to trans kids in Connecticut.
State Rep. Sarah Keitt was especially well-suited to defend these rights.
She has a daughter who is contemplating moving to Texas, and Keitt keeps warning her, "careful where you go, things are not like they are in Connecticut."
She also has "a 20-year-old transgender non-binary child" and claims "the gender-affirming care that they have received was life saving."
That's why Keitt wants to ensure "they" can continue receive gender-affirming care in Connecticut, and that includes protecting gender care providers.
"We have transgender children who are dying daily because they are afraid of the backlash that they they're going to get and that they can't find the healthcare that they need," claimed Keitt. "Gender-affirming care is healthcare."
Transgender children are not dying daily, that is a lie.
Plus, there is no evidence that transing children prevents suicide.
In fact, on December 4, 2024, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio (the first openly transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court) responded to questioning from Justice Samuel Alito about whether transgender treatments reduce the risk of suicide.
Strangio stated that there is no evidence from studies showing that gender-affirming care reduces completed suicides (actual deaths).
However, it is worth mentioning that a lot of people have died at the hands of transgender killers just in the month of February (see Canada and Rhode Island).
Medical associations are changing their views on gender-affirming care for youth.
A detransitioner just won a landmark lawsuit.
And even left-wing media outlets like The Atlantic have acknowledged that the tide is turning against gender-affirming care for youth.
But don't tell that to Attorney General William "Lawfare" Tong!
Tong announced today that he's leading a coalition of 20 attorneys general in submitting comment letters opposing two proposed rules by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that would prevent hospitals and medical providers from providing, and youth from receiving, transgender healthcare.
“These are extreme measures rooted in a hate-filled political agenda that would decimate our healthcare system. HHS and CMS are displacing legitimate medical expertise and parental choice with MAGA ideology and debunked fake pseudoscience. We’re fighting on every front to protect doctors and families and access to lifesaving healthcare,” said Attorney General Tong.
FACT CHECK: It's the advice of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) that has been "debunked fake pseudoscience."
Attorney General Tong and the coalition assert in their comment letters that the proposed rules from HHS and CMS "intrude on the states’ rights to regulate medicine within their borders, violate the Spending Clause and Equal Protection Clause, and contradict various statutes including the Social Security Act, the Affordable Care Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and vital nondiscrimination laws."
"The proposed rules further reflect HHS’s decision to discriminate against transgender youth despite contrary medical and scientific evidence, as shown by the agency’s failure to faithfully engage in the rulemaking process, including its lack of required regulatory impact and flexibility analyses," said the word salad in Tong's press release.
Today’s comment letters follow Tong’s previous efforts to combat the Administration’s attempts to protect American children from dangerous, irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation. He still insists that transgender healthcare is “safe and effective.”
For Lunar New Year he promised he's never gonna bend a knee to Trump for anything.
It's worth adding that America First Legal (AFL) uncovered internal communications from Connecticut state public health officials indicating that they knew President Trump’s executive order on “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” did not impact HSS funding or federal grants.
However, that didn't stop Tong from joining a lawsuit filed against Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi, claiming the order would "impose undue financial penalties on the state and cause medical harm to minors."
“If Connecticut was not financially impacted by the Executive Order, it should have declined to join a lawsuit,” said Dan Epstein, Vice President of America First Legal. “To challenge, without cause, Executive Order 14187’s assurance that taxpayer dollars are not used for chemical and surgical mutilation of children, forces the courts to adjudicate political grievances, not actual disputes. AFL will continue to expose unfounded attempts to clog the federal courts as part of state lawfare against the Administration.”
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