Gender Affirming Care Getting Worldwide Examination
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As The Supreme Court looks at a Tennessee’s law to ban gender-affirming care for minors, we look back to Michele’s interview with Brandon Showalter, a reporter who has covered the topic for years. We invite you to this encore presentation of a very timely issue. Warning, some of the content is graphic.
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| 0:00.0 | But it was a little girl whose arm had basically been mutilated, and they were taking the |
| 0:11.5 | flesh of her arm to create for her male genitalia. |
| 0:15.5 | I've known of people, very young, 18, 19, 20 that got what you're describing as a radial forearm falloplasty, |
| 0:24.9 | where they harvest tissue from the forearm of a female in order to fashion a simulacrum of a male |
| 0:30.7 | sex organ. And these surgeries are highly complex. They're not repairing the body. They're |
| 0:36.9 | disfiguring it intentionally with the |
| 0:38.9 | goal of appearing more like the opposite sex. And I know of one case, at least on Instagram, |
| 0:45.2 | where a woman who had that operation done wound up with an elyostomy bag and was urinating |
| 0:50.9 | out of her anus and had I think had 30 corrective follow-up surgeries. |
| 0:54.7 | These are brutal, brutal operations. |
| 1:02.0 | That is Brandon Showalter of the Christian Post. |
| 1:05.2 | We first had him on this podcast back in 2022. |
| 1:08.2 | And we felt like it was really a good time to let you hear this one again. |
| 1:14.4 | Because it's really of the moment, if you will. |
| 1:18.0 | It's so apropos of what's being heard at the Supreme Court about this ban over youth transgender care that happened in Tennessee. |
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