Posted on 09/06/2024 5:35:35 AM PDT by Petrosius
(LifeSiteNews) — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has reversed a judge who blocked Florida’s law banning “gender transition” procedures on minors, allowing it to be enforced while the legal battle over its constitutionality proceeds.
In June, Democrat-appointed U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle struck down SB 254, Florida’s ban on transgender drugs and surgeries for minors enacted in 2023, declaring it an “unconstitutional” prohibition of “proper treatment” for gender-confused minors. The office of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis quickly denounced the ruling and confirmed it would appeal.
Days later, DeSantis doubled down that “it’s wrong to mutilate minors. It is wrong to perform a ‘sex change’ on a 16-year old. You’re not allowed to get a tattoo, but somehow you can have your privates cut off? Give me a break.” He predicted SB 254 would be restored, citing the 11th Circuit’s upholding of an “almost identical” Alabama law and warned that “if you say that we shouldn’t [defend the law], you’re saying that any liberal judge should be able to veto the policy of the state of Florida, because they go to the same judges every time, we lose almost every time, and then we win on appeal almost every time.”
Last Monday, as predicted, the 11th Circuit panel sided with the state, Florida’s Voice reports, ruling they made a “strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits.”
The lower court “likely misapplied the presumption that the legislature acted in good faith when it concluded that the prohibition and regulation provisions, and the implementing rules, were based on invidious discrimination against transgender minors and adults,” the judges ruled. It further agreed there were “legitimate concerns” about proper medical care to motivate the law.
“The clerk’s office is directed to set an expedited briefing schedule and to place this appeal on the next available oral argument calendar,” the ruling concluded.
“Florida will always stand for sanity,” DeSantis responded to the win. “Let kids be kids.”
A significant body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80 percent of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and that “transition” procedures, including “reassignment” surgery, fail to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
Many oft-ignored “detransitioners,” individuals who attempted to live under a different “gender identity” before embracing their sex, attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion, as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject, many of whom take an activist approach to their profession and begin cases with a predetermined conclusion in favor of “transitioning.”
Two things that don’t go together: gender transition & children. Good.
Plastic surgery is to help people not destroy their lives
50 years from now this period of time where the structures of CHILDREN are mutilated to match up with their broken mental structures will be forever referred to as the slow-motion holocaust enforced at the barrel of a government gun... again.
There goes Desantis again, still faking being a conservative…😂🤦♂️.
Children cannot consent to castration. Period.
Gosh a sensible judgment from a judge. Must have caught him in the one-hour interval when he was hung over and had not yet started snorting, drinking, or shooting up.
They can’t consent to any form of medical care.
Or medical malpractice...
Except castration isn't medical care.
Get a load of this from Harvard in 2020...
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/first-do-no-harm-201510138421
Keep it mind the next time you see Big Med.
I'd settle for just having every Republican governor be like DeSantis.
Did gun control groups say that if you gender transition all children gun violence will stop or something like that ? I think that was on The Liberty Daily a few days ago
No kidding. I can’t figure out the DeSantis haters. Are they blind?
“Gosh a sensible judgment from a judge. Must have caught him in the one-hour interval when he was hung over and had not yet started snorting, drinking, or shooting up.”
Don’t overlook the obvious: Many judges are getting paid off by the left.
The left is all about power. The idea that they wouldn’t use bribes (or threats) to coerce a judge is not believable. Of course they would.
Think about that.
That it took a judge to make this pronouncement is ludicrous
If I might be so bold as to paraphrase it:"Yes the judges are drunks and drug-addled criminals. But don't sell them short. They're also on the take." LOL.
Indeed they obviously are.
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