I’d love to see the actual details on the cases where women were “turned away without even being seen”. I’ll bet there way more to the story that the article left out. Having worked in ER’s for many years that’s not something that typically is ever done unless someone is a fool. EMTALA requires anyone presenting to an ER must be seen and evaluated to determine if a medical emergency exists. It’s a 10k fine that med mal doesn’t cover and the person that turns them away is personally responsible as is the hospital. The hospitals I worked at flat out had everyone get seen just to avoid this.
This is what we call projection. An incomplete list of issues that Republicans can't mind their business on: gender-affirming care, all other things transgender, drag shows, books other parents' kids are reading, what professors and college students are discussing in university classrooms, the chromosomes of Olympic boxers, private businesses' vaccine requirements, corporate DEI trainings, African American Studies courses, women's reproductive decisions (beyond abortion), family planning decisions, and so on and so forth.
Or there's not. Or the many articles and many women who have come out since the Dobbs decision describing these exact situations are telling the truth. I know which side I believe.
The horror, the horror. What to do about boys being empathetic to biological girls? Perhaps they can scribble verse from The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock on the bathroom stalls? “I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
No need to be condescending. I never said Republicans mind their own business. You quoted Walz as saying that is their golden rule: to mind their own business. I was pointing out that they only hold to that golden rule for one subject.
How does having tampons in boy’s bathroom make boy’s empathetic to biological girls? That’s quite the stretch, you know that’s not why they were put there.
You don’t seem to understand the issue. There is a tension at play - duty to treat vs not being in violation of abortion laws. It isn’t entirely clear what doctors are supposed to do. So in places where the abortion laws are strict doctors choose not to perform the abortion, unless the woman’s life is in danger. They will wait until the woman’s health deteriorates at which point her life is clearly in danger such that they are safe to perform the needed procedure.
Yes, I'm the bad guy because my instinct isn't, "All these women must be lying." Maybe it's the fact that my job involves having to try and decode the idiotic statutes our government writes. Maybe it's the fact that I work closely with attorneys who specialize in reproductive rights who have spoken with me about their cases, including women who have experienced similar things and doctors who are confounded by these laws who work in hospitals that don't know want to do and fear criminal liability. But you go right on trying to convince the rest of us to disbelieve the women relaying their experiences. It jives what what you prefer the facts to be, so that must be what the facts are.
It's definitely more than one subject. The Democrats have become the party of freedom, ironically enough. Except on guns and vaccine requirements.
You can't see a situation where it'll benefit girls/women for a boy/man to be able to walk into a bathroom and get a tampon, even putting aside transgender people? Y'all really want to make "Walz made tampons too widely available" your argument against him? LOL.
It reminds me when they were attacking Kamala for her laugh. They've got nothing so they make up weird things
I think it’s very unlikely that, in a public school, the only option available to a girl or woman (or the option that nearly any girl or woman would choose if given a choice) for how to get a tampon is for a boy to go get one in the men’s restroom. Is it a huge deal? No. But the assertion that there’s any meaningful use case for the men’s restroom to need tampons other than transgender people seems kind of silly.
I was a bit shocked that he went there. Then I thought about these conventions, which have an obligation for flamboyancy.
