Nobody is FORCING anything – that is just something our bodies do naturally This is just a silly semantic game. Our bodies naturally do a lot of things that in

Nobody is FORCING anything – that is just something our bodies do naturally This is just a silly semantic game. Our bodies naturally do a lot of things that in some cases we’d prefer they not do. They love growing babies, or tumours, or falling apart in uncountable ways. Withholding access to an available and desired medical treatment is broadly equivalent to forcing a patient to experience the effects of whatever the treatment is intending to prevent. We are just far more likely to use the explicit term “forcing” in cases where that treatment is being withheld for ideological reasons - such as abortions or puberty inhibitors.