Election wins of Annie Andrews, Abdul El-Sayed and more who ran on healthcare issues are viewed as sign of home as Trump administration unravels US health policy
Public health leaders and politicians who made healthcare a central part of their platforms swept into office in the US midterm elections last week, setting the stage for national, state and local changes.
Voters, faced with an unprecedented rise in vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, alongside devastating outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, chose national candidates who prioritized public health, healthcare affordability, reproductive health and the impeachment of Robert F Kennedy Jr, among other key issues.
“The American people are speaking out against President Trump and the policies that he’s been rolling out since the day he took office,” said Julie Scofield, a member of the coordinating committee at the grassroots organization Defend Public Health. “I think it’s a complete repudiation.”
Annie Andrews who ran an ad saying she opposed trans healthcare for minors?
I don’t think opposing gender surgery on minors is actually controversial, is it? I would think it’s between a patient and a doctor and doesn’t need some law, but I don’t think it would make much difference.
In terms of which sports people can play in, we should probably just get rid of gender based leagues. Seems kinda silly. I’m a cis guy but couldn’t compete against most serious cis women in any sport. So unless we also have fat/lazy leagues to equalize things, why would we have gender based levels?
I mean gender affirming surgery is by far (97%) done on cis boys with gynomastecia. The most common form of trans gender affirming surgery for minors is also top surgery on transmascs, but the rates are like 0.0021% for 15-17 and 0.0001% for 13-14. (The rates being that low also really shows how hard it already is for trans kids to access the care they need tbh.) People opposing one and not the other is just bigotry. And I mean cis girls are allowed to get breast implants at 16 with parental consent in a lot of places.
And yeah sports wise women’s leagues actually started cause men were upset about losing to women once they started being allowed to compete lmao. But as long as we have separate men’s and women’s leagues trans women should still be allowed to compete in women’s leagues.