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Sep 27 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
OU Health statement: The center was neber slated to offer GA care, and "The OU Health Senior Leadership team is proactively planning the ceasing of certain gender medicine services across our facilities and that plan is already under development." #okhealth
Several conservative states have made gender-affirming care for minors a wedge issue, and it appears Oklahoma is joining the ranks.

GA care is not new. Here is a story @MegWingerter did on OU Health's program in 2019. oklahoman.com/story/lifestyl…
Also, this isn't happening in a vacuum. Just a little context: Tucker Carlson has been on a campaign against GA care, in this segment, accusing hospitals of "sexually mutilating children for profit."
video.foxnews.com/v/631272057011…
"Boston Children’s Hospital said it asked law enforcement for help protecting its employees ... the threats began last week after Twitter accounts popular on the far right circulated what the hospital called misinformation about its transgender care."
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08…
Texas has already labeled GA child abuse, and a state supreme court ruling is allowing child protective services to investigate families for it npr.org/2022/05/13/109…

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Sep 29
The Senate is hearing HB 1007. It appropriates hundreds of millions of dollars to university hospitals, but it says they can't use any of it for gender-affirming care. Link to the hearing: oksenate.gov/live-chamber
Link to the bill: oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?…
Minority Leader Kay Floyd: There was a comment that the majority of Oklahomans don't support gender-affirming care. Where did you get that figure?
Senate Pro Tempore Greg Treat: We haven't done polling, but that is the consensus in who is reaching out to our offices. #okhealth
Floyd: Minors have to have parents' permission to undergo any health care. Is this measure anti-choice?
Treat: We don't allow minors to make life-changing decisions — to get tattoos, buy cigarettes or enter contracts.
Floyd: Are you likening health care to getting a tattoo?
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Sep 28
NEW PARAMORE
Loving the 60s theme I'm going full twiggy for their show next month
Oh it’s SIXTIES sixties. Count me in Image
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Sep 27
Idk growing up we didn’t really learn what fascism was. We heard Nazis were evil but not much about their platform outside of the genocide. Didn’t learn the difference between right and left authoritarians. A girl in my class once started a speech, “Hitler was a communist.”
It was drama, speech and debate class and one of the few hippie edgelords in all of Muskogee was there with his copy of the communist manifesto in his bag and just looked at her so haggard. They were friends. What a time.
Anyway I think that teaching about fascism in the Bush years would have been to hard and it’s not an accident that we didn’t do it. My own edgelord take I guess.
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Jun 24
Here is the streaming link for Gov. Kevin Stitt and Attorney General John O'Connor's press conference, celebrating Roe's reversal. It hasn't started quite yet.
Stitt: "When I ran for governor, I promised Oklahomans I would sign every piece of pro-life legislation that hit my desk. I'm proud to have kept that promise." Stitt is now praising AG John O'Connor, who he appointed to the position, and who is up for election.
O'Connor: In Roe v. Wade, the Court decided the constitution has the right to an abortion in it. This morning, the Court said the constitution doesn't mention abortions or protect them. "It is time to heed the Constitution" and let the states decide. It is a state issue.
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Jun 24
Now the briefing with Planned Parenthood Great Plains. They serve a four-state region that includes Oklahoma. We'll hear from PP Great Plains president Emily Wales and its medical director, Dr. Iman Alsaden. #okhealth
Wales: Most of our states have trigger laws. That includes OK. Even before there were certifications of those triggers from state attorneys general, we stopped performing abortions because we were looking at the opinions and knew Roe was no longer the law of the land #okhealth
Wales: CURRENTLY there are no policies affecting access to birth control, but we know that issue is on the table. We are still providing pregnancy prevention care at our facilities.
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Jun 24
In the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Dr. Iffath Hoskins: I think of the patients who need to end a pregnancy to save their lives.
"I think of clinicians who will have to pause." They will be distracted, wondering if they will face legal punishment.
Hoskins: The Supreme Court is forcing us to betray the sacred oath we have pledged to our patients.
CEO Dr. Maureen Phipps: Overturning protections in Roe v. Wade is the boldest act of legislative interference that we have seen in this country. "it will allow state legislators to tell physicians what care they can ... provide to their patients."
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