WASHINGTON, D.C. – Moments ago a Texas court protected the rights of families and their doctors to make medical decisions for their child free from government bureaucrats’ interference.Posted on 12/31/2016 2:51:38 PM PST by NYer
Ruling protects children and doctors, hospitals from federal regulation
For Immediate Release: December 31, 2016
Media Contact: Melinda Skea | media@becketfund.org | 202-349-7224
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Moments ago a Texas court protected the rights of families and their doctors to make medical decisions for their child free from government bureaucrats’ interference.
The court ruling comes after eight states, an association of almost 18,000 doctors, and a Catholic hospital system challenged a federal regulation that requires doctors to perform gender transition procedures on children, even if the doctor believes the treatment could harm the child. Doctors who followed their Hippocratic Oath to act in the best interest of their patient would have faced severe consequences, including losing their job.
“This is a common-sense ruling: The government has no business forcing private doctors to perform procedures that the government itself recognizes can be harmful, particularly to children, and that the government exempts its own doctors from performing,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel at Becket Law, which filed a lawsuit against the new federal regulation. “Today’s ruling ensures that doctors’ best medical judgment will not be replaced with political agendas and bureaucratic interference.”
The new regulation applied to over 900,000 doctors—nearly every doctor in the U.S.—and would have cost healthcare providers and taxpayers nearly $1 billion. The government itself does not require its own military doctors to perform these procedures. It also does not require blanket coverage of gender transition procedures in Medicare or Medicaid—even in adults—because HHS’s experts admitted research is “‘inconclusive’ on whether gender reassignment surgery improves health outcomes,” with some studies demonstrating that these procedures were actually harmful. But a doctor citing the same evidence and using their best medical judgment would have faced potential lawsuits or job loss.
A recent website provides leading research on this issue, including guidance the government itself relies on, demonstrating that up to 94 percent of children with gender dysphoria (77 to 94 percent in one set of studies and 73 to 88 percent in another) will grow out of their dysphoria naturally and live healthy leaves without the need for surgery or lifelong hormone regimens.
“This court ruling is an across-the-board victory that will ensure that deeply personal medical decisions, such as gender transition procedures, remain between families and their doctor,” said Windham.
Becket Law defended Franciscan Alliance, a religious hospital network sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration, and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations from the new government regulation. The States of Texas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kentucky, Kansas, Louisiana, Arizona, and Mississippi joined Becket’s legal challenge. More information can be found at www.transgendermandate.org.
For more information or to arrange an interview with a Becket attorney, please contact Melinda Skea at media@becketfund.org or 202-349-7224. Interviews can be arranged in English, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
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About time...
The supplemental insurance carrier my former employer has chosen (I pay 100% of the insurance premium)) proudly announced during a seminar describing the change of insurance HMO’s that they cover gender transformation up to $25,000.
I’m sure few if any individuals covered by this new plan requested or require this ridiculous coverage.....which I’m certain is reflected in our insurance premiums.
I don't quite understand the scope of this ruling. It claims it covers all of America's 900,000 doctors, but I imagine very few practice "gender transition." Is it saying that doctors and hospitals are now protected from being involved in any way if they choose not to be?
For sure, any doctor who practices or specializes in "gender transition" must already be twisted.
Thanks for the post-——and for introducing me to The Becket Fund.
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Any endocrinologist may be asked to provide opposite-sex hormone treatment to a “transgender” patient. Any surgeon may be asked to perform a mastectomy on a “trans-man.” A cosmetic surgeon may be asked to perform surgery to make a man’s features look more “feminine.”
A Texas state court, ruling only for Texans?
A federal District Court or Appeals Court located in Texas, applying to the entire country?
Why keep it a secret?
Ping to article
IOW, they cover the initial consultation and some hormone shots.
Once Barry the homo and the manly Moochie Obama are out of the White House the pressure to promote cross dressing, gender-bending, and sex change medical procedures will go away.
Thank goodness. Any such surgery is merely cosmetic.
If everything went right, you’d need an anesthesiologist, urologist, and a plastic surgeon. you’d probably need a psychiatrist. If things went wrong, others would be pulled in. Then many nurses would have to be involved throughout. Many people who are opposed could have been forced into it.
This is a federal district court in Texas and not a Texas court. It makes a difference.
If you are a federal contractor, your company gets extra points / preference for contracts if you meet all the items on the Out and Equal Index and other far left liberal checklists, which includes accommodating and supporting transgenders.
So, in other words, the "conservative" position is now that mutilating children under the influence of their parents' mental illnesses is a "personal decision".
Mmm..kay.
No secret.it’s at the link “filed a lawsuit”
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U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, an appointee of George W. Bush.
If Obama Administration appeals, it would be with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Nobody should EVER be doing gender reassignment on any child ever.
NO child is mature enough to make that kind of decision and they are messing with hormones etc that will affect the child for life.
There is NO going back or undoing the damage that kind of procedure can cause.
NO parent should ever be allowed to demand it for their child. The child is not a piece of property or a pet to do what they want with.
Should have been in the main article’s very first sentence’s very first clause.
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