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Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee in March signed a bill into law that bars doctors from mutilating minors or giving them puberty blockers and also restricted drag shows on public property or near schools.
Groomers want to desensitize children to perversions and destroy the safeguarding parents have put in place. So-called gender affirming tactics and “shows” where men expose their sexual fetishes to children are part of the scheme.
The Kentucky legislature passed a similar law banning “gender affirming care” — sterilization and surgical mutilation — against minors. The Democratic governor in March vetoed the bill, but lawmakers had the votes to override the veto.
After courts issued preliminary injunctions against enforcement, these states appealed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit last week reversed the injunctions and remanded the cases back to the lower court to reconsider in light of this decision.
Kentucky and Tennessee can begin protecting children.
“No one in these consolidated cases debates the existence of gender dysphoria or the distress caused by it,” the judge wrote (PDF). “And no one doubts the value of providing psychological and related care to children facing it. The question is whether certain additional treatments—puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and surgeries—should be added to the mix of treatments available to those age 17 and under.”
The court contended that so-called gender dysphoria is a “relatively new diagnosis,” and it’s difficult to predict long-term consequences and abandon “age limits of any sort for these treatments.”
“That is precisely the kind of situation in which life-tenured judges construing a difficult-to-amend Constitution should be humble and careful about announcing new substantive due process or equal protection rights that limit accountable elected officials from sorting out these medical, social, and policy challenges.”
Attorney General Daniel Cameron of Kentucky, who is black and Republican, opposes sterilizing and surgically mutilating children. He applauded the decision.
“These gender interventions, billed as medical care, cause permanent harm to vulnerable children and their health,” he said in a statement. ““Despite full-throated denials by Governor Beshear and his far-left activists, our children would still be under attack without SB 150. Andy Beshear won’t protect our kids, but I will, and I am proud to carry the mantle for this important law.”
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