Posted on 05/26/2021 2:45:54 AM PDT by RandFan
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Tuesday sued Arkansas to block a new law that bans doctors in the state from providing gender reassignment surgeries and other treatments for transgender youth.
The ACLU said in its suit that the law will have “devastating consequences” for transgender youth in Arkansas, setting up the first challenge to a highly controversial law that the state legislature muscled through by overriding a veto by GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
“The ACLU is proud to represent them,” the civil rights group said in a statement, referencing the four transgender adolescents and their families and the two doctors it is representing. “Because of the shocking nature of the harms this law would impose, this is the first lawsuit we are filing against any of the anti-trans laws that state legislatures passed this year — and more will be coming soon.”
“Transgender children in crisis shouldn’t have to turn to the courts to ensure that they can get the health care that their doctors and parents agree they need. But that’s the reality that anti-LGBTQ forces have created as part of their campaign of attacks on transgender youth.”
The Arkansas law says that young people will not be able to obtain puberty blockers, which delays the start of puberty, as well as cross-hormone therapy, which helps transgender people to adjust their physical appearance to be more in line with their gender identities.
The law could go into effect later this summer.
The ACLU’s lawsuit says the prohibition violates the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's 14th Amendment as well as the First Amendment.
The suit goes on to claim that the law prevents needed health care and strips families of the power to make their own decisions about a youth’s treatment.
Young people in Arkansas “will be unable to obtain medical care that their doctors and parents agree they need -- and those already receiving care will have their treatment abruptly halted -- which could have serious and potentially life-threatening consequences,” the lawsuit reads.
“The Health Care Ban barges into Arkansas families' living rooms and strips Arkansas parents of the right to provide medical care for their children,” it adds.
The law in Arkansas is just one of several being passed in GOP-controlled states that target transgender youth, with many also looking to bar children who identify as girls but were assigned male at birth from participating in girls’ sports.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a pawn in the hand of the evil one who opposes God and man.
An addadictomy is health care?
It’s evil to let the mentally ill mutilate themselves and the ACLU encourages it.
No mention as to the high suicide rate among those who have the surgery, or the people switching back, or the precedent set by outlawing the process of trying to change being gay.
When I was growing up, there were no chics with dicks.
Now they are seemingly everywhere.
WTF happened in 40 years?
Even the MSM is admitting this (60 Minutes).
The First Amendment? Really?
So now not permitting the mutilation of children is a violation of religious liberty?
They robbed us of our precious bodily fluids. Ever see a Communist drink water?...
When your mind tells you to mutilate yourself, fix your mind. Don’t listen to it. Same with the Doctors. When your mind tells you to mutilate someone, don’t listen to it. Go to prison.
Exactly.
The ACLU needs to pay for it if they feel that strongly about it.
Mutilation is not health care, no matter the motivation behind it. “Transformation” surgery is, for the most part, irreversible, and results in not a change from male to female, or female to male, but essentially conversion into a neuter, unable to reproduce under any conditions. Of course, it is a method of sterilization, which may be the objective, as this whole program is anti-life and directed at an agenda that does not take into consideration the future changes of a person’s point of view.
Gender assignment is not an option. It is literally part of almost every cell of the human body, and that is immutable. XX is not changed to XY, nor is XY ever changed to XX.
Now, for emotional reasons, an individual may prefer to assume the outward APEARANCE and BEHAVIOR of the opposite sex, that is a matter of individual conscience, and is not helped in the least by purposeful mutilations. Then it becomes merely crossdressing, transvestites, but not an irreversible procedure.
“ The ACLU said in its suit that the law will have “devastating consequences” for transgender youth in Arkansas,”
Fine with me. Natural selection. Isn’t that how they think the world works?
“Treatment”
Since when is mutilating perfectly healthy kids “treatment.”
WTF happened in 40 years?
Well, back in 1968 when bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian Immigrant, it was decided that BOYS were too manly masculine and needed to be feminized to make them less “violent”.
After fifty years we are seeing the result.
Having the private parts and hormones that go with our birth sex is not a disease requiring “treatment.”
There must be a shortage of closets.
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