Very old article and very biased. Here’s an important bit of information though:
The sheet also states that, although they are certainly able to, at the time of the fact sheet’s publishing, zero teens and 10 adults under the Oregon Health Plan have undergone sex reassignment surgery.
Very few transgender people undergo sex reassignment. Gender affirming care can be as simple as going by one preferred pronouns or a change in wardrobe. It’s disingenuous to consider that you can only be trans by chopping all bits; try to know some trans people before spewing your opinion.
This is a more recent, unbiased article that covers what your old one you posted and what’s being done now in the legal sphere.
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/oregon-hb-2002-abortion-gender-affirming-care-bill-walkout/283-35498207-efda-4657-96ec-c956487ae902
First, the bill defines “gender-affirming treatment” as a procedure, service, drug, device or product that a physical or behavioral health care provider prescribes to treat an individual for incongruence between the individual’s gender identity and the individual’s sex assignment at birth. Under current Oregon law, insurance companies are not required to cover all of these forms of treatment. However, the state agency that regulates insurance companies has issued bulletins essentially directing insurance companies to cover them. HB 2002 would put that requirement into law, listing a number of specific procedures that must be covered to the extent that a health care provider determines they are medically necessary.
Even if a 15 year old may ask for a specific sex affirming surgery, the final day is on the doctor handling the case.
The bill also explicitly states that voluntary sterilization does not qualify as reproductive care for minors under 15 years of age, meaning people 14 and under will not be able to seek it on their own.
So no chopping bits. Because for some reason, adults care too much about what children want to do to their genitals.
