Picture your baby. Then, visualize your child’s freedom are being debated in Congress and in state legislatures. In the Oklahoma Legislature this period, roughly 60 anti-transgender bills were introduced, some of which are still in effect.
That is actually dehumanizing. All 18, 350- plus of us are mortal, like the rest of you. We are also babies, just like the rest of you.
It’s not new to issue transgender people. However, House Bill 3214 is novel and would permit the denial of medical treatment or treatments for transgender people.
It is frightening to not be able to get health care because the simple notion of not fitting into one’s view of right or wrong makes it difficult to do so.
I have made an effort to comprehend the opposing viewpoint. That appears to be fueled by a fear of change because it is frightening.
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But it’s not so terrible that politicians feel the need to create 60 expenses that attempt to remove others, including the 18, 350- plus trans people in Oklahoma.
Trans adults are someone’s children, but what legislators who write these bills do n’t realize is that trans adults are that person’s children. I am one’s person. Every individual on this earth is one’s person.
All I want is that the politicians pay attention. Being trans is terrible now. Being debated is dehumanizing.
We as individuals are no ideas to consider. Our freedom are people. Take note that all the anti-trans laws are about a person’s baby.
Editor’s Note: HB 3214 had let anyone in the health- treatment field, from secretaries to insurers, to refuse care based on a spiritual belief. The Williams Institute of the University of California’s School of Law estimates in a 2016 statement that Oklahoma has 18, 350 transgender people, which represents 0.64 % of the people.
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