Just how many people are transgender in the United States is not clear, but in South Carolina it could be nearly 3,000 children, according to a Post and Courier analysis.
In a letter sent amid the budget debate, MUSC said emphatically it does not offer gender reassignment surgery to anyone under 18. Its services for transgender children, offered since 2007, include “access to mental health providers, endocrine medicine providers, social workers and dieticians,” Dr. David Zaas, CEO of MUSC Health’s Charleston Division, wrote in the letter dated March 29.
But the letter didn’t appease Sen. Josh Kimbrell, who authored the ban on MUSC providing gender-transitioning services for minors.
“It doesn’t really say what they do, that’s the problem,” said the Spartanburg Republican, responding to Democrats who accused him of trying to deprive children who may be suicidal of mental health care. “They expressly say what they don’t do, but they don’t clarify what they do.”
Denying that he wanted to withhold lifesaving counseling from any child, he added, “I do, however, think it’s inappropriate for the state to fund a clinic whose whole purpose is to encourage a child to make a decision that may be irreversible.”
Approval of the budget directive that applies only to MUSC came more than a year after a Democrat in the House filed a bill broadly banning gender-transitioning surgery and hormones for anyone under 18. That bill, co-sponsored by one other Democrat and 28 Republicans, drew the ire of his party leaders and got national attention, but it went nowhere in the Statehouse.
″(Opponents of transitioning) tried to pass gender-affirming bans last year and failed at passing a ban,” Condon said. “So instead (they) just used financial pressure with the budget proviso that was included.”
Officially, a state budget directive applies only to taxpayer money approved by the Legislature. But it can be virtually impossible for any public agency to prove a specific program and its employees are wholly funded by other sources. And ignoring legislators’ budget orders can put future public funding at risk.
This fiscal year, MUSC is getting $188.9 million in state funding, but that is 3.5 percent of its $5.4 billion total budget, according to state budget documents and MUSC officials.
After first being assured MUSC could still continue transgender care for minors without touching state funding, Condon said there was an apparent change of heart later last year.
“They felt like the easier way to handle it was to stop providing this care,” she said. So, for the doctors who were prescribing care, “now the doctor’s boss is saying, ‘Don’t do it because it is politically unfavorable,’” Condon said.
MUSC also canceled an LGBT health conference it was slated to host later this month, which is now being picked up by Condon’s group without any participation from MUSC.
It remains unclear when exactly MUSC ended the services. But the result stands Mia among an estimated 150 patients of that pediatric clinic in downtown Charleston scrambling to find treatment elsewhere, even as they have yet to receive official notice from MUSC.
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Sa-Roc - Forever (Official Video)
THIS IS A DOPE INSPIRATIONAL JOINT.
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10K2024 1-21-24
1830. Disco Medley Live-Selena
1831. Como La Flor Live-Selena
1832. Amor Prohibido-Selena
1833. No Me Queda Mas-Selena
1834. Cobarde-Selena
1835. Fotos & Recuerdos-Selena
1836. El Chico Del Apartmento 512-Selena
1837. Bidi Bidi Bom Bom-1994 Version-Selena
1838. Techno Cumbia-Selena
1839. Tus Desprecios-Selena
1840. Si Una Vez-Selena
1841. Ya No-Selena
1842. Donde Quiera Que Estas-Selena
1843. I Could Fall in Love-Selena
1844. Captive Heart-Selena
1845. I'm Getting Used to You-Selena
1846. God's Child (Baila Conmigo)-Selena
1847. Dreaming of You-Selena
1848. Wherever You Are-Selena
1849. Techno Cumbia Remix-Selena
1850. El Toro Relajo-Selena
1851. Tu Solo Tu-Selena
1852. Porque Le Gusta Bailar Cumbia-Live-Selena
1853. No Debes Jugar-Selena
1854. Tu Robaste Mi Corazon-Selena
1855. La Llamada-Selena
1856. Munequito De Trapo-Selena
1857. Siempre Hace Frio-Selena
1858. A Million to One-Selena
1859. Buenos Amigos-Selena
1860. Con Tanto Amor Medley-Selena
1861. Always Mine-Selena
1862. Como Te Extrano-Selena
1863. Is It the Beat?-Selena
1864. Only Love-Selena
1865. Oldies Medley-Vidal Brothers
1866. A Boy Like That-Selena
1867. Cumbia Medley Live-Selena
1868. One More TIme-Lil Ray
1869. Vivras Selena-Pete Astudillo, etc.
1870. Tu Eres-Selena
1871. Sukiyaki-Selena
1872. Contigo Quiero Estar-Selena
1873. Besitos-Selena
1874. Amame Quiereme-Selena
1875. Tengo Ganas De Llorar-Selena
1876. My Love-Selena
1877. Quiero Ser-Selena
1878. Mentiras-Selena
1879. No Te Vayas-Selena
1880. La Bamba-Selena
note: the last three songs were attempted to be listened to 3 times but i kept falling asleep, and waking up to the linear notes at the end of the album. however to make up for it, i have relistened to those three songs plus the one before it to make up for falling asleep. and so these while technically are listened to today... i'm counting them for yesterday this day here... but they are officially listened to as of right now posting this.
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Recent Acquisitions - Photograph Collection
The Harmonizing Four, Richmond, Va.
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Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing
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earlier i showed my friend the song The Adults Are Talking because it’s infesting my brain and if i can’t find a way to consume it i might die, and upon hearing the beginning, she said
“don’t tell me you’re going through an indie phase”
GIRL. GIRL. GIRL. she just. said that. disrespected a perfectly glitter brain inducing song. said “i mean a few indie song are okay i guess” as if indie songs aren’t gifts from god themself. i guess i’m simply used to the “if it slaps it slaps” mentality because the idea of someone frowning at a song simple because they realized the genre- 😭
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