After Trump’s brilliant strategic move to minimize the Democrat’s advantage on abortion, Trump has another opportunity to win votes by supporting a federal ban on transgender treatments (both surgical and hormonal) for minors under the age of 18 and banning transgender men from women’s sports.
This is a perfect opportunity because it divides the Democrat base of the large suburban women’s vote with the, electorally microscopic, transgender vote.
Winning over an extra 1 point of suburban women nationwide could easily tip the election to Trump because of how large it is and how their vote is distributed in strategically important regions of the swing states such as the Philadelphia suburbs.
The Democrats will almost certainly respond by fighting Trump on these two issues to please the small number of transgender voters, while losing ground among the much more important suburban women’s vote who are likely to oppose the transgender position on these two issues.
The result would be to divide the Democrat base much like Trump has divided the Democrat’s blue collar base in the Rust Belt from their Green energy base by pointing out how restricting fracking in Pennsylvania and encouraging electric vehicle adoption in Michigan will harm the working class there to enrich the Green industrial complex.
Supporting Congressional legislation to ban transgender men from women’s sports takes hysterical media attention away from abortion.
So too would a ban on transgender treatment for minors under 18.
The reason for the ban should simply be that even hormonal treatments have severe developmental side effects such as structural deformation of the skeleton and spinal column, neurological underdevelopment, and numerous other side effects.
A cancer risk from hormonal treatments alone is also very probable since IVF treatments that stimulate ovulation have to be careful not to stimulate the ovaries excessively or else there is a marginal increase in the risk of ovarian cancer.
If IVF hormonal treatments, which are done only temporarily, and are performed on adult women can potentially raise cancer risk then the risks are probably orders of magnitude higher for transgender hormonal treatments to children.
The penalties for allowing children to undergo any type of transgender procedure (even if only hormonal) should be revocation of the doctor’s license and prosecution of the doctor for felony medical malpractice, federal child abuse charges filed against the parents, revocation of custody of the child, and unlimited financial liability for any doctors who are sued by their patients for medical side effects as adults.
If doctors are really confident that these procedures are safe then they should have no fear of medical malpractice lawsuits because their treatments should few to no side effects.
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