Today, Fair Wisconsin will testify before the Senate Committee on Health in opposition to SB 405, a bill that would threaten access to medically-necessary health care for trans youth.
In addition to mobilizing community members to testify in-person and collecting written testimony to submit on behalf of Wisconsinites, Fair Wisconsin’s Executive Director Abigail Swetz will testify in opposition to SB 405.
From Fair Wisconsin’s testimony:
Wisconsin’s trans kids deserve the freedom to be themselves and receive the medical care they need. In fact, we should all be free from politicians using our identities and our medical care to score political points.
Gender-affirming care for transgender youth is medically necessary care, just like the kids who receive it – and all kids – are necessary. It is age-appropriate, just as it is appropriate to believe someone at any age when they tell you they know who they are and how they want to live, a perspective backed by rigorous scientific evidence. It is individualized, just like the young people who receive it are, themselves, unique individuals. And it is high-quality, just like the bright future this state has ahead of us when all our children thrive. Young people and their families deserve to know it is within their power to continue to access this medically necessary care without anyone else – especially politicians – injecting themselves into their medical decisions.
The reality is this: we must protect access to youth gender-affirming care because this medically necessary health care makes it possible for trans kids to grow into awesome adults.
Full testimony from Swetz is attached.
For previous testimony as to the importance of protecting access to gender-affirming care for trans youth, please see Swetz’s testimony opposing AB 104.
