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I do n’t like to do slippery slope, but I ’m also very worried about things like gender-affirming care, since there’s already been so many laws about that recently in other states. – Kristyn Brandi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These are people who are old enough to enlist in the military, buy guns, buy alcohol, buy tobacco, get married, do a variety of other things that we leave to adults to do, and yet we would be forbidding them from being able to receive gender affirming care, as if that is in some way a more permanent decision. – Cathryn Oakley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The movement to oppose (gender-affirming care) has never said, ‘we only care about children.’ We’ve said, ‘we want to protect children,’ and so, we want to protect who we can as quick as possible. And the group of people that we can protect as quick as possible is children. – Terry Schilling	Found on CNN 1 year ago
(Celebrities’) stories, coming from humble beginnings to achieving greatness, become a way of affirming people’s faith in or hope that they can achieve similarly. – Sisco King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When they say gender-affirming care, they mean giving puberty blockers to teenage girls and teenage boys, they mean doing double mastectomies on young girls, they mean chemically castrating young boys. That is wrong. We are not going to allow that to happen in the state of Florida. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If we're talking about The Supreme Court reversal from an intersectional perspective of gender affirming care and reproductive justice, we've seen these attacks directed at gender-affirming care and more widely just the transgender community dating back to the bathroom bills, these bills are primarily focused on this rhetoric of transgender people either being deemed a danger to themselves or a danger to other people. And I think similarly, the language that's used to deny abortion services also sort of relies a little bit on a rhetoric of protecting people from themselves. – Mikiko Galpin -LRB- he/him -RRB-	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Often, there's not the understanding that trans men are men and that nonbinary people are nonbinary people, and the needs of both of those categories and folks who are capable of pregnancy are often overlooked, so even before Roe v. Wade was overturned, folks were struggling to find reproductive care that was affirming of their gender identities, struggling to find accessible, affordable, safe reproductive care -- particularly folks who are Black, disabled, working class and living in the South. – Mickaela Bradford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As we submitted in our statement yesterday afternoon for hysterectomies and other genital surgeries performed as part of gender-affirming care, Boston Children’s requires a patient to be capable of consenting for themselves, age 18 is used to reflect the standard age of majority for medical decision-making. Boston Children’s does not perform genital surgeries as part of gender-affirming care on a patient under the age of 18. – Boston Children Hospital	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Research shows gender-affirming care improves the health and overall well-being of children and youth when families and medical professionals work together in making health care decisions, we condemn all violence and threats aimed at pediatric patients, their families and medical staff making decisions affecting children's health. – American Medical Association	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Establishing a service of such critical importance requires care and consideration, our primary concern is ensuring we develop a pilot that will eliminate barriers and provide affirming support to LGBTQIA + populations. – John Draper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s ironic that the Biden administration continues to claim their policies only support ‘affirming care’ while simultaneously defending and promoting permanent, harmful, and irreversible sex-change operations for children, we have remained consistent that in Florida we must protect children and parental rights, and our Medicaid program should not be paying for medical experiments. – Brock Juarez	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We know from research, long term, very powerful research that affirming a young person's gender leads to better health and well-being, this is about the basic rights and dignity of a human being. Your beliefs do not allow you to refuse to acknowledge who a student is. – Joel Baum	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In recent days, elected leaders in Texas have launched a cynical and dangerous campaign targeting transgender children and their parents, the governor of Texas has directed state officials to open child abuse investigations into families simply because they have provided access to affirming care for their children. – White House	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
On Day One, I pledged as Governor to battle this pandemic and take bold action to protect the health of all New Yorkers, i commend the Second Circuit's findings affirming our first-in-the-nation vaccine mandate, and I will continue to do everything in my power to keep New Yorkers safe. – Kathy Hochul	Found on CNN 2 years ago
First, let me say to the families and students involved — my heart aches for you and I am sorry that we failed to provide the safe, welcoming, and affirming environment that we aspire to provide. – Scott Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would urge it to be something that's humane, life-affirming, not prison-like, not like a fishbowl necessarily, it's a tough design problem. – Jacob Alspector	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Vessel is like some MC Escher nightmare, the Vessel's kind of relentless. The Vessel's very gaudy, The Vessel's very cold. The Vessel's thrilling... The Vessel's not the most friendly and life-affirming and inclusive kind of space or structure. The Vessel's kind of empty. What's the point of The Vessel ? Just to walk up and walk down ? – Jacob Alspector	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it's because the space is so beautiful, so magical, so affirming, so wonderful, i don't know that I've heard anyone describe The Vessel as beautiful. – Jacob Alspector	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Let me be clear, how people voted on affirming the election of Joe Biden is not a criterion for service. That doesn't matter. – Speaker Pelosi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think when Pulse happened, there were a lot of folks in elected office locally who also reflected on,' How inclusive are we really being ?' yes, Orlando was very affirming for LGBTQ people before Pulse, and that commitment to equality was certainly strengthened in Orlando after Pulse, but it was also an important moment for our community to reflect and see how we can be even more inclusive. – Carlos Guillermo Smith	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I feel emerging joy and excitement one moment, and then in the next, profound sadness reading about people wanting to take gender-affirming health care away from children, i feel so grateful to be at this place in my life, and I want to use the strength I have to help in all the ways that I can. – Thomas Page McBee	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We very quickly realized that this socially accepted liquor that elevates people, makes people merry and makes people make great decisions, also kills people and destroys families, we wanted to make a movie that explores the whole spectrum of alcohol, but more importantly... wanted to make a life-affirming film about living instead of just existing. – Thomas Vinterberg	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It gave a me purpose in life and kept me away from the freefall, and I felt there was a higher purpose in making a movie for her. Before her death it was an ambition to make a life-affirming film ; that became a necessity. I wanted to celebrate the life that we lose so easily. – Thomas Vinterberg	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In explaining LCPS'equity priorities, it might be helpful to state what they are not. They are not an effort to indoctrinate students and staff into a particular philosophy or theory. What they are is an effort to provide a welcoming, inclusive, affirming environment for all students, lCPS'work on equity is a journey that requires the commitment of staff at all levels. I feel the staff'swork, which has been sustained, honest and undertaken in good faith, has been misrepresented recently by some members of the public. – Interim Superintendent Scott A. Ziegler	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

I do n’t like to do slippery slope, but I ’m also very worried about things like gender-affirming care, since there’s already been so many laws about that recently in other states.

– Kristyn Brandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are people who are old enough to enlist in the military, buy guns, buy alcohol, buy tobacco, get married, do a variety of other things that we leave to adults to do, and yet we would be forbidding them from being able to receive gender affirming care, as if that is in some way a more permanent decision.

– Cathryn Oakley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The movement to oppose (gender-affirming care) has never said, ‘we only care about children.’ We’ve said, ‘we want to protect children,’ and so, we want to protect who we can as quick as possible. And the group of people that we can protect as quick as possible is children.

– Terry Schilling

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(Celebrities’) stories, coming from humble beginnings to achieving greatness, become a way of affirming people’s faith in or hope that they can achieve similarly.

– Sisco King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When they say gender-affirming care, they mean giving puberty blockers to teenage girls and teenage boys, they mean doing double mastectomies on young girls, they mean chemically castrating young boys. That is wrong. We are not going to allow that to happen in the state of Florida.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we're talking about The Supreme Court reversal from an intersectional perspective of gender affirming care and reproductive justice, we've seen these attacks directed at gender-affirming care and more widely just the transgender community dating back to the bathroom bills, these bills are primarily focused on this rhetoric of transgender people either being deemed a danger to themselves or a danger to other people. And I think similarly, the language that's used to deny abortion services also sort of relies a little bit on a rhetoric of protecting people from themselves.

– Mikiko Galpin -LRB- he/him -RRB-

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Often, there's not the understanding that trans men are men and that nonbinary people are nonbinary people, and the needs of both of those categories and folks who are capable of pregnancy are often overlooked, so even before Roe v. Wade was overturned, folks were struggling to find reproductive care that was affirming of their gender identities, struggling to find accessible, affordable, safe reproductive care -- particularly folks who are Black, disabled, working class and living in the South.

– Mickaela Bradford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As we submitted in our statement yesterday afternoon for hysterectomies and other genital surgeries performed as part of gender-affirming care, Boston Children’s requires a patient to be capable of consenting for themselves, age 18 is used to reflect the standard age of majority for medical decision-making. Boston Children’s does not perform genital surgeries as part of gender-affirming care on a patient under the age of 18.

– Boston Children Hospital

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Research shows gender-affirming care improves the health and overall well-being of children and youth when families and medical professionals work together in making health care decisions, we condemn all violence and threats aimed at pediatric patients, their families and medical staff making decisions affecting children's health.

– American Medical Association

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Establishing a service of such critical importance requires care and consideration, our primary concern is ensuring we develop a pilot that will eliminate barriers and provide affirming support to LGBTQIA + populations.

– John Draper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s ironic that the Biden administration continues to claim their policies only support ‘affirming care’ while simultaneously defending and promoting permanent, harmful, and irreversible sex-change operations for children, we have remained consistent that in Florida we must protect children and parental rights, and our Medicaid program should not be paying for medical experiments.

– Brock Juarez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We know from research, long term, very powerful research that affirming a young person's gender leads to better health and well-being, this is about the basic rights and dignity of a human being. Your beliefs do not allow you to refuse to acknowledge who a student is.

– Joel Baum

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In recent days, elected leaders in Texas have launched a cynical and dangerous campaign targeting transgender children and their parents, the governor of Texas has directed state officials to open child abuse investigations into families simply because they have provided access to affirming care for their children.

– White House

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

On Day One, I pledged as Governor to battle this pandemic and take bold action to protect the health of all New Yorkers, i commend the Second Circuit's findings affirming our first-in-the-nation vaccine mandate, and I will continue to do everything in my power to keep New Yorkers safe.

– Kathy Hochul

Found on CNN
2 years ago

First, let me say to the families and students involved — my heart aches for you and I am sorry that we failed to provide the safe, welcoming, and affirming environment that we aspire to provide.

– Scott Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would urge it to be something that's humane, life-affirming, not prison-like, not like a fishbowl necessarily, it's a tough design problem.

– Jacob Alspector

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Vessel is like some MC Escher nightmare, the Vessel's kind of relentless. The Vessel's very gaudy, The Vessel's very cold. The Vessel's thrilling... The Vessel's not the most friendly and life-affirming and inclusive kind of space or structure. The Vessel's kind of empty. What's the point of The Vessel ? Just to walk up and walk down ?

– Jacob Alspector

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it's because the space is so beautiful, so magical, so affirming, so wonderful, i don't know that I've heard anyone describe The Vessel as beautiful.

– Jacob Alspector

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Let me be clear, how people voted on affirming the election of Joe Biden is not a criterion for service. That doesn't matter.

– Speaker Pelosi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think when Pulse happened, there were a lot of folks in elected office locally who also reflected on,' How inclusive are we really being ?' yes, Orlando was very affirming for LGBTQ people before Pulse, and that commitment to equality was certainly strengthened in Orlando after Pulse, but it was also an important moment for our community to reflect and see how we can be even more inclusive.

– Carlos Guillermo Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I feel emerging joy and excitement one moment, and then in the next, profound sadness reading about people wanting to take gender-affirming health care away from children, i feel so grateful to be at this place in my life, and I want to use the strength I have to help in all the ways that I can.

– Thomas Page McBee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We very quickly realized that this socially accepted liquor that elevates people, makes people merry and makes people make great decisions, also kills people and destroys families, we wanted to make a movie that explores the whole spectrum of alcohol, but more importantly... wanted to make a life-affirming film about living instead of just existing.

– Thomas Vinterberg

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It gave a me purpose in life and kept me away from the freefall, and I felt there was a higher purpose in making a movie for her. Before her death it was an ambition to make a life-affirming film ; that became a necessity. I wanted to celebrate the life that we lose so easily.

– Thomas Vinterberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In explaining LCPS'equity priorities, it might be helpful to state what they are not. They are not an effort to indoctrinate students and staff into a particular philosophy or theory. What they are is an effort to provide a welcoming, inclusive, affirming environment for all students, lCPS'work on equity is a journey that requires the commitment of staff at all levels. I feel the staff'swork, which has been sustained, honest and undertaken in good faith, has been misrepresented recently by some members of the public.

– Interim Superintendent Scott A. Ziegler

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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