A Missouri judge found that the state banned Transgender Surgery and Hormone Treatment Monday was constitutional for minors, just a week ago US Supreme Court A similar case has come to light in Tennessee.
Judge Robert Craig Carter highlighted the questionable ethics behind controversial treatments for gender dysphoria in his ruling on challenges by LGBTQ civil rights activists against the Protecting Teens from Experimentation Act, which was signed into law last year.
“The evidence at trial has shown that the medical ethics of gender dysphoria treatment for children and adolescents is completely untenable,” Carter, who sits on Missouri’s 44th Judicial Circuit Court, wrote in a lengthy letter. 72 page decision,
“Any person – including a minor – will be able to obtain anything from meth to ecstasy to abortion, as long as even a single medical professional is willing to recommend it,” he later warned.
Missouri Governor Mike Parson (R) signed the law last year, and it goes into effect in August 2023. It also imposed a three-year ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors unless they are in the middle of such treatment.
The measure imposes penalties on physicians who violate the law, including potentially revoking their medical licenses and barring patients from being sued for at least 15 years, with damages of at least $500,000 for a successful lawsuit. Capacity is included.
Carter also pointed to a 2007 Supreme Court decision that said the options for state legislatures should be “broadened from time to time” in cases “fraught with medical and scientific uncertainties.”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) immediately pounced on the decision.
“The Court has upheld Missouri’s law banning child mutilation, which is a tremendous victory for our children. “We are the first state in the nation to successfully defend such a law at the trial court level,” Bailey said in a statement.,
“I am extremely proud of the thousands of hours my office has put in to shed light on the lack of evidence supporting these irreversible processes. “We will never stop fighting to make sure Missouri is the safest state in the country for children.”
Both Lambda Legal and the ACLU Missouri condemned the decision and vowed to appeal it.
“The Court’s findings indicate a disturbing acceptance of discrimination, an extensive testing record and ignore the voices of transgender Missourians and their caregivers, and deny transgender adolescents and Medicaid beneficiaries their right to access evidence-based, effective and We do. Life-saving medical care,” they A joint statement claimed,
This law is set to expire in 2027.
With that decision, Missouri appears to be the first state where a trial court has affirmed such a ban. At least 26 states have similar policies on the books, while 24 states and the nation’s capital have laws protecting access to such interventions.
Critics argue that minors are too young to consent to interventions aimed at altering their hormones or altering their genitals.
In 2021, approximately 4,231 hormone therapies were performed on minors aged 6 to 17 years, 1,390 puberty blocker treatments were performed on minors aged 6 to 17 years, and 282 mastectomies for gender dysphoria were performed on girls aged 13–17 years. Gone. According to data from Comodo Health Inc.,
According to that dataset, diagnosed cases of gender dysphoria among minors increased from 15,172 in 2017 to 42,167 in 2021.
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case US v. Skrametti, one of the most-watched cases of the term.
The case calls into question Tennessee’s ban on all remedies for “a perceived identity inconsistent with the sex of the minor”.
The outgoing Biden administration has supported challengers in the case, who are arguing that the ban violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
President-elect Donald Trump previously promised to pursue legislation banning so-called gender-affirming care interventions on minors.
Trump, 78, is also reportedly considering banning transgender service in the military. The Times, a British outlet, informed,
Tesla titan Elon Musk, who will soon become the 47th president during the transition, further said on Monday supported Federal ban on child sex change procedures.
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