Posted on 04/04/2022 6:37:36 PM PDT by bitt
The Biden administration's Justice Department warned states across the country on Thursday that any legislative attempt to limit access to sex-change therapies or operations for children could violate federal law.
The letter to state attorneys general from Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, states that any effort to restrict procedures available to "transgender youth" amounts to "unlawful discrimination based on their gender identity, including when seeking gender-affirming care."
Governors in several states have signed laws or issued executive orders meant to protect children from sex-change operations, hormone-blockers, and other medical interventions that switch their biological sex. An Arkansas law forbids physicians from prescribing puberty-blockers to children. And Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) issued an executive order providing that parents attempting to change their child's gender should be referred for a child abuse inquiry.
Clarke's letter suggests that any state action that limits the availability of so-called gender-affirming care violates the Constitution and federal laws like the Affordable Care Act, which contains medical non-discrimination provisions. And it indicates, but does not explicitly warn, that the Justice Department will take action against states pursuing policies like those in Arkansas and Texas. The letter could be a precursor to a lawsuit.
"The department and the federal government more generally have a strong interest in protecting the constitutional rights of individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, nonbinary, or otherwise gender-nonconforming," the letter reads.
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What are the Democrats gaining here?
This would be that proverbial ‘hill to die on..’
They’re coming for your children.
First they groom them in K-3, then prosecute you for ‘denying’ their sex change, then threaten the doctors if they refuse to do the operation.
Leave the union and tell Biden and his DOJ to go pound sand.
Affirming insanity and perversion. Lord please come and rescue us.
The fact that the federal government is now pushing for enabling delusions and mutilating children show how far we have fallen.
They can set the new Associate Justice right to work searching the penumbras for this right.
Literally the Devil’s disciples.
What are they going to do if a state asserts nullification of the DOJ’s authority on the matter?
Bring it on MOFO’S
Stick “it” in your ear, Biden. If you even have an it.
And supporting schools that hide this child abuse and mutilation from their parents, even in early elementary school.
I remember being told that worrying about the camel’s nose poking under the tent was a “fallacious argument”.
They’re behaving like the next election, and all the subsequent elections, are in the bag.
Maybe biden’s DOJ will call any dissenters TERRORISTS too. Just like parent’s daring to speak out at school board meetings.
Will they also restrict measures by citizens to do amateur transgender reassignment to politicians without their consent?
Do people yet see that BY FAR the greatest threat to our freedoms, values, and very lives is not Big Tech or China, but our own mainly unconstitutional totalitarian federal government now headed up by gangsters and hoodlums?
The Constitution MUST be reinstated as the Supreme Law of the Land FORCING the feds back into their limited role and freeing the sovereignty of the states and individual liberties of the people.
This is the fight and it’s worth risking life and limb for. The Left is willing. Are there enough Patriots to stand up to these weasels? May God raise up an army of Patriots to restore our Free Constitutional Republic.
I guess they see this as a winning issue. They certainly care little about the kids.
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