Posted on 07/21/2021 6:04:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Wednesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Arkansas’ law protecting children from experimental transgender “treatments” that often carry lifelong effects, including sterilization. In April, the Arkansas House and Senate voted to override Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s H.B. 1570, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. Experimental “puberty-blocking” drugs and cross-sex hormones may have long-lasting impacts on fertility, so advocates have branded them “chemical castration.” Yet opponents of the law claim that withdrawing “health care” will harm children.
U.S. District Judge Jay Moody granted the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) request for a preliminary injunction, preventing the law from going into effect until the ACLU’s lawsuit had been resolved, the Associated Press reported. Moody ruled that the ACLU’s plaintiffs were likely to succeed with their legal challenge and that allowing the law to go into effect on July 28 (as planned) would hurt young people who are already undergoing “treatment.”
“To pull this care midstream from these patients, or minors, would cause irreparable harm,” Moody said.
He issued the injunction shortly after hearing arguments for about an hour and a half. Lawyers representing the state argued that the law targeted questionable procedures, not transgender people. Yet Moody questioned why a minor born male should be allowed to receive testosterone while a minor born female should not. “How do you justify giving that to one sex but not the other and not call that sex discrimination?” he asked.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in May on behalf of four minor children, their families, and two doctors who provide “puberty-blocking” drugs and cross-sex hormones. The lawsuit alleges that the Arkansas law violates the 14th Amendment’s Due Process clause by discriminating against minors due to their transgender status and requiring doctors to discriminate in the same way.
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Sick world we live in.
In many states, children cannot use commercial tanning booths even with their parent’s explicit permission and federal courts have no problem with that whatsoever.
But, a state tries to pass a law banning children from undergoing - checks notes - chemical castration and the federal government has a big problem with that.
We’re getting dumber, as a country and maybe as a species.
I have become convinced these American Commies are in league with the CCP. The CCP has murdered over 90 million souls, tens of millions of which are abortions under the guise of "health care".
It is not health care solve the problem when Johnny wants to wear panties. All Johnny needs is a few trips to the shed to turn him into a young man.
The STATE does NOT bow down before an inferior court created by Congress, the Constitution is clear, ONLY the Supreme Court has Jurisdiction. Tell the inferior court to POUND SAND!!
Trouble is the parents allowing it to happen. The kids are screwed up and will bw when they’re adults. Just find a way for us to not pay for it.
Yeah, that’s not how it works. You need to familiarize yourself with the phrases: Supremacy Clause and preemption doctrine.
State law is inferior to federal law. District Courts enforce federal law and hear constitutional challenges. The conclusion this District Court came to was insane. But, suggesting the District Court doesn’t have jurisdiction if there’s a federal law being violated or a constitutional violation, is also insane.
Let’s castrate him and see how he likes it.
An OBAMA judge just blocked it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Moody_Jr.
"On July 25, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Moody to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas."
Yes, how did our society ever get to the point where we are even discussing this issue?
There was a UN Women’s Conference back about 20 years ago and the Indian women, talking about western women attending, who said “Sick, sick people.”
This “judge” should be impeached and removed for asking such an idiotic question. I guess mammograms and Pap smears are discriminatory too?
Doing things to kids that the left wants to do used to earn 20+ years of hard time. Now a judge is protecting that crime.
A crime against humanity on the same order as the Nazi medical experiments. The perpetrators must be brought to justice as at Nuremberg.
The “judges” pushed this perversion on us in the first place.
Puberty blockers for teens is no different from Chinese foot binding.
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