Posted on 10/29/2022 6:44:19 PM PDT by marshmallow
MADISON — In the city of La Crosse, medical and mental health professionals who attempt to “change behaviors or gender expressions” of minors can face a $1,000 fine, even lose their licenses. In short, they either toe the liberal line on gender transitions for children or pay the price.
Now the city of La Crosse faces a lawsuit for infringing on the First Amendment rights of health care workers.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against the city on behalf of Joy Buchman, a licensed mental health professional and owner of Kinsman Redeemer Counseling Center, LLC. The suit challenges the city’s ordinance that penalizing medical or mental health professionals if they express certain prohibited viewpoints relating to sexual orientation or gender identity when counseling their minor patients.
For example, the ordinance would require professional counselors to either affirm the decision of any minor patient to transition to a new gender identity—despite ongoing, good-faith disagreements among professionals on whether and under what circumstances such transitions should take place—or remain silent.
“The City of La Crosse is under the mistaken impression that it can simply punish citizens who dare to voice officially disfavored viewpoints on public issues of critical importance,” said Anthony LoCoco, deputy counsel for the Milwaukee-based civil rights law firm. “The First Amendment prohibits exactly this kind of big-government bullying. Attempts to falsely paint as hateful those who share good-faith disagreements on matters going to the core of what it means to be human won’t salvage the City’s position.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wisconsinspotlight.com ...
Be nice to own a town like LA Crosse.
I hope they get slapped down hard. This fascist crap has to stop.
The more stuff like this goes on, the bigger the backlash 10 days from now.
That language can apply equally to grooming and to therapy to undo grooming.
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