Commentary: Cruel schools play gender-affirming name game

Penn Medicine won’t provide ‘gender-affirming care’ to kids anymore

Kids will have to wait until they are 19 now The University of Pennsylvania’s medical system will no longer remove healthy testicles, breasts, and other organs from kids who have gender dysphoria. Penn Medicine recently announced the decision to comply with federal directives that prohibit removing healthy organs to make kids look like the opposite sex. The orders also prohibit injecting girls… Source

Commentary: Cruel schools play gender-affirming name game

As we head into Pride Month, a season of joy and celebration for the LGBTQ+ community, I’m reminded that the state of Florida continues to try and squash our Pride, particularly where adolescents and educators are concerned. In April, we saw Brevard Public Schools fire AP Satellite High School teacher Melissa Calhoun for using an affirming name for a 17-year-old trans student, the name by which they had been known since middle school. Now, as re…