Posted on 08/05/2025 12:17:35 PM PDT by CFW
On Monday, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill joined 24 other Republican attorneys general in backing President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at halting federal funding for sex change procedures on minors, marking the state's latest push in a broader legal fight over transgender care.
Three days earlier, Massachusetts filed a brief joined by 19 states challenging the same executive order. The states argue the order is unconstitutional, discriminatory, and violates the Spending Clause by tying federal health funds to ideological conditions.
The Massachusetts-led brief contends that the order jeopardizes care for transgender youth, strips states of medical decision-making authority, and undermines long-standing Medicaid protections. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment and permanent injunction against implementation.
The attorneys general defending the Trump order, led by Alabama's Steve Marshall, filed amicus briefs in the 4th and 9th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, supporting Trump's order and urging the courts to overturn preliminary injunctions issued earlier this year in lawsuits out of Washington and Maryland.
The Alabama-led briefs argue that continuing to fund such procedures violates both medical ethics and constitutional principles.
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The Alabama-led brief was filed in both the 9th Circuit and 4th Circuit federal courts of appeal.
Louisiana was joined by attorneys general from Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming in addition to Louisiana.
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When my sons were teenagers, they each asked me if they could get tattoos or piercings.
My answer was always no.
When they asked why, I said...
My job, as a parent, is to turn over to you, at age 18, an intact unmarked body, to do with as you please.
That is your job as a parent.
To supervise and protect your child from peer pressure and whimsical impulses.
And sexual grooming...
What have we as a country become when you have to make a law saying mutilation of children is wrong? You have to have special bathrooms for mental patients, or outright tell men they cant use the womens restroom .. ( granted I’ve done it in an emergency, the stalls are private) and fighting cops is legal if they beat you up after. - lawsuits for excessive force is B.S.
Allowing such procedures targeted are our most vulnerable is beyond dispicable. I wanted to say that up front, becuase I don’t want to be misconstrued about the next bit.
So let me set that aside for a second: in a vacuum, I could see the Left making an argument that this issue is the same as that of the Dobbs decision: that it’s a states’ rights case over whether this kind of (ahem) “health care” should be permitted.
How should we argue that this is different?
(And yes: I absolutely want to find such a legal position, for if it exists, I’d want to see both Alabama and Lousiana do a U-turn on the courthouse steps after winning this and then try to re-argue Dobbs as deserving a national abortion ban).
Children cannot consent to castration. Period.
Yet, the Left argues that surgically mutilating someone with Gender Dysphoria is not only right, it should be performed on minors who can't consent, and that the mutilation should be paid for by taxpayers.
A doctor who told a schizophrenic patient that their delusions were real would lose his license, yet we’re expected to tell someone who believes they’re the opposite sex that their delusions are real.
Both are issues of body dysmorphia (body image problems). There are some cases where a person things a part of their body is actually a foreign object (usually a limb). Some doctor in England “helped” two patients by chopping off one of their limbs.
It was not against the rules at the time. But they outlawed it and he was told not to do it again. The doctor was very upset as he had other patients lined up for similar surgeries and he couldn’t “help” them now.
My oldest boy also wanted a tattoo. But Mom said no. A couple of days later, he and his little brother have a conversation about getting the Scrotum pierced. My wife said there’s an idea I can get behind. She pulled out a hole punch and said Put your junk on the counter, She scared him so bad that he was in his mid-30s before he got his first tattoo.
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