Posted on 12/27/2023 10:03:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
An Idaho law passed this year that bans gender-affirming care for minors will not go into effect on Jan. 1, as planned. A federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction on the lawsuit against the ban. House Bill 71, "The Vulnerable Child Protective Act" was signed into Idaho law in April. It outlaws gender-affirming care for transgender minors; including puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries.
The law finds any doctor that provides gender-transition care guilty of a felony, punishable by up to 10 years of prison time. After the law was signed, a lawsuit was filed against the state on behalf of the families of two transgender Idahoans. The lawsuit, and those who filed it – including the ACLU of Idaho – argues House Bill 71 violates the 14th Amendment - which guarantees equal protections to all Americans.
"This case ultimately is about the 14th Amendment. It is an equal protection case," ACLU of Idaho Executive Director Leo Morales said. "It is about making sure that transgender youth have equal rights in the state, but it is also about making sure that the state doesn't intrude on those constitutionally protected rights of transgender youth."...the ACLU of Idaho is calling it a win for Idaho families who are caught in a difficult situation.
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador gave his reaction to the ruling in a statement: "The federal judiciary once endorsed the eugenics movement and forced sterilization of intellectually disabled people. Similarly, Judge Winmill's ruling places children at risk of irreversible harm. History will not look kindly at this decision. We are taking immediate action to appeal this decision and are confident that correction will come. I will never stop fighting for and protecting our most vulnerable children."
(Excerpt) Read more at ktvb.com ...
It's odd the article says a FEDERAL JUDGE granted the temporary injunction, but doesn't name the judge, the court, or the district.
Another site, The New Civil Rights Movement, has this...
U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday, stopping the Idaho anti-trans law from taking effect in less than a week. Winmill said that the pending lawsuit filed by two trans minors and their parents will most likely succeed, citing the 14th Amendment, according to the Statesman.It is a travesty that these insane libs compare injuring innocent children to the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement.“Time and again, these cases illustrate that the 14th Amendment’s primary role is to protect disfavored minorities and preserve our fundamental rights from legislative overreach,” he wrote. “That was true for newly freed slaves following the Civil War. It was true in the 20th century for women, people of color, interracial couples and individuals seeking access to contraception. And it is no less true for transgender children and their parents in the 21st century.”
Winmill, appointed to the Idaho district court in 1995 by President Bill Clinton, has recently ruled in other pivotal culture-war cases:
- August 2023: Winmill blocked Labrador from prosecuting doctors who send patients out-of-state for an abortion, KMVT-TV reported.
- August 2022, Winmill issued an injunction stopping Labrador from prosecuting ER doctors who provide an abortion in attempts to stabilize a patient, according to the Idaho Capital Sun, while a suit against the law.works its way through the court system. The injunction was overturned by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in September 2023, according to the Capital Sun, though the lawsuit itself is still pending.
There is no such thing as gender affirming care and these people do harm with their ignorance.
Child abuse
Predators from the practitioners to the justices that allow it
Karen Carpenter
Everyone knows that it was would have been nonsense to “affirm” the anorexia dysphoria that eventually led to her death.
Think of how twisted the Left in the United States is now,
trying to strike down men/women after thousands of years
of human history, accepting those are the ony two genders
that are provided by God, or even nature if you’re that
mixed up.
No matter how you slice it, you can’t have kids without one
guy and one woman. End of story!
Crime isn’t crime anymore
Personal normal civil rights aren’t to be honored
Terrorists are now the sane ones
Law abiding citizens are now the terrorists
Weather isn’t just weather anymore. That’s gamed too.
It’s total chaos, and it’s planned that way.
If someone believes the answer to a confused little boy’s problem is to cut his pecker off, take lots of hormones and pretend he is a girl, they are a monster.
It is as simple as that. They are neither affirming or caring. They are a monster that would make Josef Mengele blush
Rapin’ Bill stooge.
Curious question. Technically, can doctors still refuse to provide this care while this law is being litigated?
If the democrats can’t KILL babies they will mutilate them. If they can’t mutilate them they will sue to mutilate them. What a bunch of evil demons.
Interesting that laws banning homosexual conversion therapies are ok under the 14th...
Groomers at work
Remember the “gender-affirming care” rule of news writing. Any article that uses that phrase (or at least without quotes) has no validity.
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