XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.transgendered, alt.politics.usa
From: NoBody@nowhere.com
On Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:05:02 -0500, Ubiquitous
wrote:
>The Supreme Court on December 4 will hear oral arguments in a case
>dealing with Tennessee’s law banning irreversible gender transition
>procedures for children — and it promises to be one of the most
>significant cases the court has looked at this term.
>
>Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R.) signed the much-discussed Senate Bill 1
>into law on March 22, 2023, which went into effect on July 1, 2023. The
>bill bans doctors or health care providers from performing so-called
>“gender-affirming” surgeries or hormonal procedures on minors,
>including surgery, puberty blockers, and hormones.
>
>The bill followed a September 2022 investigation into Vanderbilt
>University Medical Center (VUMC) by the The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh,
>who exposed VUMC’s gender transition procedures for children and
>shocking attitudes towards gender transitions in general. Walsh and The
>Daily Wire found that the hospital regarded transgender procedures as a
>“big money maker” and pressured employees to ignore their “religious
>beliefs” on transgender issues or face “consequences.”
>
>The Biden administration joined the ACLU and several teenage plaintiffs
>suing to stop the law, and a Tennessee district court initially blocked
>it in April 2023. But in September 2023, a sixth circuit court upheld
>Tennessee’s protections for children. The Supreme Court took up the
>case in June 2024, combining the Justice Department and ACLU cases into
>United States v. Skrmetti, marking the first time that the High Court
>took up a case of this kind.
>
>
>“The people of Tennessee, through their elected representatives, took
>measured action with Senate Bill 1 to protect kids from irreversible,
>unproven medical procedures,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan
>Skrmetti said in an October statement. “Lawmakers recognized that there
>is little to no credible evidence to justify the serious risks these
>procedures present to youth and joined a growing number of European
>countries in restricting their use on minors with gender-identity
>issues.”
>
>The ACLU led a variety of left-wing legal groups in suing Tennessee in
>April 2023 to block the law from going into effect, calling these
>transgender procedures “medically necessary gender-affirming care for
>Tennessee’s transgender youth.” That claim is based on activist
>assertions that young people suffering from gender dysphoria may commit
>suicide if they do not have access to transgender hormones or
>surgeries.
>
>Recent research has shown that, contrary to such claims, these
>procedures actually increase the likelihood that minors will attempt
>suicide. According to an April study, “gender-affirming surgery is
>significantly associated with elevated suicide-attempt risks,
>underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric
>support.”
This should have been bolded since it destroys the argument that this
travestity of a procedure "saves lives".
>
>Yet the ACLU and their allies are suing Tennessee on behalf of a
>Nashville, Tennessee couple and their 15-year-old son, who identifies
>as a girl, as well as a doctor from Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Susan Lacy.
>
>“It was incredibly painful watching my child struggle before we were
>able to get her the life-saving healthcare she needed. We have a
>confident, happy daughter now, who is free to be herself and she is
>thriving,” the ACLU’s client, Samantha Williams, said earlier this year
>of her trans-identifying son.
>
They should have gotten the real mental health treatment for their
child and not rely on this pseudo treatment.
>“I am so afraid of what this law will mean for her,” she said. “We
>don’t want to leave Tennessee, but this legislation would force us to
>either routinely leave our state to get our daughter the medical care
>she desperately needs or to uproot our entire lives and leave Tennessee
>altogether. No family should have to make this kind of choice.”
No child is capable of making this level of a life changing decision.
No trans surgery for kids, period.
>
>
>Skrmetti’s office argues that states have governed the practice of
>medicine within their borders since the United States was founded,
>pointing out that it is states who license doctors and regulate medical
>practices, which includes restricting the administration of drugs. The
>Tennessee lawmakers who passed Senate Bill 1 used that power to stop
>the use of hormonal and surgical procedures for minor gender transition
>procedures, Skrmetti’s office said.
>
>More than 20 other states have passed similar laws protecting children,
>they pointed out.
>
>“The federal government, in its arguments to the Supreme Court, puts
>its faith in a false and manufactured consensus that ignores the many
>doctors, States, and countries who have looked at the evidence and
>determined these treatments are too risky for kids,” Skrmetti added.
>“The Constitution does not prevent the States from regulating the
>practice of medicine where hot-button social issues are concerned.
>People who disagree with restrictions on irreversible pediatric
>procedures for gender transition are free to advocate for change
>through state elections.”
>
>The ACLU’s case will be argued by Chase Strangio, a woman who
>identifies as a transgender man. The ACLU has advertised that Strangio
>will be the first openly trans-identifying individual to argue a case
>before the Supreme Court, describing Strangio as “our nation’s leading
>legal expert on the rights of transgender people, bar none.”
Oh look a circus in the Supreme Court.
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