Texas judge halts federal transgender health protections

Associated Press ^ | Dec 31, 2016 7:07 PM EST | Paul J. Weber

[Olog-hai]

A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered a halt to another Obama administration effort to strengthen transgender rights, this time over health rules that social conservatives say could force doctors to violate their religious beliefs.

The latest injunction signed by U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor comes four months after he blocked a higher-profile new set of transgender protections — a federal directive that required public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity.

Several of the Republican-controlled states that brought that lawsuit, including Texas, also sued over the health regulations that were finalized in May. …

[madprof98]

Hopefully this particular madness goes the way of Obama himself on January 20th.

[lastchance]

Quite a biased twist on the facts of the mandate. Expect more of the same from LSM.

[unlearner]

The mind-raping media call them “protections”.

Promoting transgenderism and homosexuality to children is not protection. It is abuse.

[a fool in paradise]

Gay newsrooms haz the vapors.

[sphinx]

Not surprisingly, it is impossible to tell from the linked AP story just what was involved in this particular mandate. The story wants to talk in general terms about "transgender health protections," and apparently surgical transitions and abortion are somehow involved, but how?

I know, I know ... it's just another form of lying, but AP should be ashamed of itself.

[a fool in paradise]

Transexuals have drug problems and suicidal ambitions. Self-castration doesn’t lead them to happiness but rather than counsel them with basic facts, libs want to entertain their delusions.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I don’t think it does. Kennedy looks like he’s gone leftist to stay. He believes he is on the Court to make an impact that the electorate won’t make fast enough. He is going to keep accepting ridiculousness until he leaves the Court. He will join the original leftists to grant cert on activism.