Some good news at last.
The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender transition treatment for kids.
No more mutilating the kids under the guise of ‘affirming care’ nonsense.
Texas is now one of at least 25 states with restrictions on this care.
So this trend is gaining momentum, thank God.
The law prohibits hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and surgery for minors under 18.
Children already on these treatments must stop.
And it’s about time!
We’re taking about our kids from the clutches of the ungodly.
BREAKING: Texas Supreme Court upholds Texas ban on s*x-change surgeries for minors.
Huge W! pic.twitter.com/tYg5JzBt5M
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 28, 2024
Fox News reports:
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state’s ban on gender transition treatment for children, allowing the Lone Star State to remain one of at least 25 states, and the largest, with restrictions on such treatment.
The law, which has been in effect since Sept. 1, 2023, prohibits children under the age of 18 from accessing hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender transition surgery. Children who were already on those medications were required to taper off their use of the drugs. The law includes exemptions for children in early puberty or who have “a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development.”
The lawsuit that challenged the law argued it harms transgender teenagers who are barred from receiving gender transition treatment recommended by their physicians and parents, according to The Associated Press.
The court, comprised of all Republicans, handed down its ruling in an 8-1 decision.
“We conclude the Legislature made a permissible, rational policy choice to limit the types of available medical procedures for children, particularly in light of the relative nascency of both gender dysphoria and its various modes of treatment and the Legislature’s express constitutional authority to regulate the practice of medicine,” Justice Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle wrote.
The lone dissenting judge said the court was giving the state’s government the ability to “legislate away fundamental parental rights.”
“The State’s categorical statutory prohibition prevents these parents, and many others, from developing individualized treatment plans for their children in consultation with their physicians, even the children for whom treatment could be lifesaving,” Justice Debra Lehrmann wrote. “The law is not only cruel — it is unconstitutional.”
A lower court had ruled the law unconstitutional, but it was permitted to take effect during the state Supreme Court’s consideration of the case.
Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton tweeted after the ruling that his office “will use every tool at our disposal to ensure that doctors and medical institutions follow the law.”
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