Washington, D.C. – Children should not be getting sex change surgeries. Full stop.
Well, apparently Cheri Beasley does not agree with that:
Report: Democrat Cheri Beasley Previously Defended Child Sex Change Surgeries
By: Katherine Hamilton
North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Democrat Cheri Beasley once called Republicans’ efforts to stop the push for child sex change surgeries “deeply troubling,” Fox News reported on Wednesday.
“Trans people and especially people of color face a lot of barriers around access to health care, and I know Biden reversed Trump’s policies that rolled back protections for transgender people in health care,” Beasley said during a November 2021 Democrat Senate candidate forum arranged by LGBTQ+ Democrats of North Carolina.
“We know Republicans, of course here in North Carolina, continue to launch attacks against trans people, including limiting the ability of trans youth to have gender-affirming surgeries. There’s just something deeply troubling about that,” she continued.
“We know that the state health care plan does not provide for trans-affirming care,” she added. “This, frankly, is really a very dangerous time. Transgender adults are two times as likely than cisgender adults to have – be diagnosed by depressive disorders.”
The former North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice also claimed that “transgender adults are significantly less likely to get their flu shots or go to doctor’s appointments” and claimed that half of transgender adults “report experiencing some kind of physical assault or sexual assault.”
“That’s deeply difficult and dangerous,” she said. “We really must call out violence and stigmas for transgender women, particularly Black transgender women, and we absolutely must say her name.”
Beasley additionally said the ACA, Medicaid, Medicare, and Tricare should be expanded “for affirming protections for trans people, for transgender people.”
“We must eliminate disparate costs for mental health care,” she said, “because health care is, mental health care is health care for all of us.… You know of course the state employees are suing the state health plan for the coverage, the lack of coverage, for transition care and we must get that right.”
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