The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a law restricting access to both medical care for transgender youth and abortion.

A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, a majority of the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The state’s high court acknowledged in its ruling that abortion and gender-affirming care “are distinct types of medical care,” but found the law does not violate Nebraska’s single-subject rule because both abortion and transgender health fall under the subject of medical care.

The majority relied, in part, on a passage from an 1895 ruling to find the state constitution offers wide latitude on what composes a single subject.

  • 0laura@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I got my first severe body modification when I was 11, a defibrillator. without it I would be dead now. you’re right, for the average person they shouldn’t mess with their body. but not everyones body is perfect. lots of people wear glasses, or take all sorts of medications.

    noone complains about me taking heart disease meds with crazy, I mean INSANE side effects when I was 11. because it’s just the right thing to do. yes there’s risks to those meds, but more often than not they’re beneficial. but hormones? nonono, that’s way too dangerous! you might be one of the 0.00000001%* of people who regret it! hell, the other meds I take have SUDDEN DEATH as a common side effect. COMMON. noone whines about that.

    *“slightly” exaggerated, but the number is very low.

    • BlackLaZoR@kbin.run
      11·
      4 months ago

      I got my first severe body modification when I was 11, a defibrillator

      Well, you got it tough :(

      yes there’s risks to those meds, but more often than not they’re beneficial

      Of course - if there’s health issue, taking medicine is perfectly justified. I would never negate that - it would be hypocritical, as I regularly take drugs for my own health issues

      but hormones? nonono, that’s way too dangerous! you might be one of the 0.00000001%* of people who regret it!

      Are you familiar with HRT menopausal disorder treatment in the 90s? I remember, it despite being like 10y old at the time - mostly because ads were running in TV day and night, and I don’t even live in US - this was popular world-wide. That was until in the early 2000s when very large scale testing suggested it’s linked to breast cancer.

      Despite menopausal disorder treatment being approved in the 1960s, it took almost 40 years to discover the negative impact. General conclusion was that in the end it didn’t offer benefits that would justify the risks.

      I’m not concerned about known risks of drugs I take - I’m generally concerned about risks I don’t know. In some cases, it can take decades to properly evaluate all pros and cons.

      I’m not writing this to scare you - your life is your choice. It just the mindset of drastically modifying your body at the very, very young age, in ways that may or may not result in a long term adverse effect is genuinely concerning. This is why I would never approve either sex change surgery, nor hormonal therapy for person below 18 years old.