Posted on 04/27/2023 9:13:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Tennessee for passing a law that bans chemical castration and body mutilating surgeries from being performed on youth who are confused about their sexual identity.
Under President Joe Biden, the DOJ filed a complaint in intervention on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, on behalf of families already suing the state over the law.
At issue is Tennessee Senate Bill 1, signed into law last month and scheduled to take effect in July. The DOJ has asked the court to block the law while litigation continues.
“SB 1 prohibits certain forms of medically necessary care for transgender minors with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria,” claimed the complaint. “SB 1 bans certain medical procedures and treatments for minors, including puberty blockers and hormones, if performed for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with or live with an identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex as assigned at birth, or treating discomfort or distress from discordance between the minor’s sex assigned at birth and their asserted identity.”
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement that she believed no one “should be denied access to necessary medical care just because of their transgender status.”
“The right to consider your health and medically-approved treatment options with your family and doctors is a right that everyone should have, including transgender children, who are especially vulnerable to serious risks of depression, anxiety and suicide,” stated Clarke.
Tennessee state Sen. Jack Johnson, who sponsored SB 1, denounced the DOJ's lawsuit and vowed to support his state’s defense of the new law.
“Once again the Biden Administration prioritizes its radical woke agenda over protecting our most vulnerable Tennesseans — our children,” stated Johnson. “I will support [Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti] in any way I can, and I will never stop fighting for Tennessee’s children.”
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee also denounced the Biden administration's lawsuit, saying in a statement to The Daily Wire that it constituted “overreach.”
“Tennessee is committed to protecting children from permanent, life altering decisions. This is federal overreach at its worst, and we will work with Attorney General Skrmetti to push back in court and stand up for children,” stated Lee.
Introduced last November, SB 1 was overwhelmingly approved by state lawmakers, passing the Tennessee House in a vote of 77-16 and the Tennessee Senate by a vote of 26-6.
The legislation prohibits healthcare providers from performing genital mutilation surgeries or prescribing opposite-sex hormones and puberty blockers to children suffering from temporary confusion about their sex.
“The legislature declares that the integrity and public respect of the medical profession are significantly harmed by healthcare providers performing or administering such medical procedures on minors. This state has a legitimate, substantial, and compelling interest in protecting minors from physical and emotional harm,” stated the findings of SB 1.
“This state has a legitimate, substantial, and compelling interest in protecting the integrity of the medical profession, including by prohibiting medical procedures that are harmful, unethical, immoral, experimental, or unsupported by high-quality or long-term studies, or that might encourage minors to become disdainful of their sex.”
Last week, the Tennessee chapter of the ACLU, Lambda Legal and others filed suit against the state over the new law on behalf of trans-identified minors and their families.
The plaintiffs in the suit, which the federal government has filed to intervene in, involves a trans-identified minor identified as “L.W.,” the child’s parents Samantha and Brian Williams of Nashville, two other unnamed families, and Dr. Susan Lacy of Memphis.
Tennessee is one of 15 states that ban elective double mastectomies and genital mutilation on minors. Arizona presently bans such surgeries but allows puberty blockers to be prescribed to children that stop the body's natural growth of sexual organs.
Well last I knew Valeri Jarrett was the boss at the Obama Foundation in Chicago so there’s that...and of course his crew operates throughout the Biden Admin on down and up the line - so all we see happing reeks of Obama and his plants IMO.
So if I find that my car isn’t running properly and I determine that it’s because there’s diesel fuel in the tank, clearly the sensible thing to do isn’t to flush the tank and put basic unleaded gas in it. I obviously need to have the engine rebuilt to enable it to operate using diesel fuel, including any modifications to other systems, the chassis and frame needed in order to accommodate the rebuild. Surely after that process the car will run exactly the way I want it to, right?
The lawsuit won’t hold up. Minors are prohibited from MANY activities. And hormone blockers, cross hormone treatment, and sex organ mutilation (aka sex reassignment surgery) are much more permanent and damaging than tattoos.
The U.S. Department of Just us thugs, bullies and sexual mutilators of children...
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I figured at 65 they’d be on Medicare and the doctors would likely be gone themselves by then.
Your right however remember we’re dealing with American Marxism with the democrats.
The Constitution is no longer in service.
I think that the real objective for the DOJ and the tax free groups is not to “ care for the trans person” but to get the puberty blockers and surgeries declared as “necessary care” so that insurance companies, (and eventually the federal government), can get paid for the procedures/care. This is obvious just by looking at the tans that are fighting to be able to join the military; Uncle pays for the meds and surgeries instead of the trans person, (and, as a side effect they are no longer able to be sent overseas in a combat role because they need a steady supply of drugs and aftercare for the surgeries).
Gender dysphoria is a mental illness. So unless the bill is banning lobotomies or some other form of brain surgery, the argument that these could be “medically necessary” is ludicrous.
I was listening to the enemy, NPR, on a drive this week and their constant drumbeat on this subject was “gender affirming treatments”.
To counter that propaganda we need to use Democrat tactics here and be as distasteful as possible. So that means talking about mutilation of children, etc., in the starkest and most graphic terms possible. Many on “our side” don’t like to get in the political gutter and brawl with Democrats. That must change if we are to win this battle.
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