Posted on 04/30/2024 1:19:00 PM PDT by packagingguy
Eight Democrat-nominated judges shoved transgender surgery closer to becoming a constitutional right via their decision Monday in a federal appeals court.
No Democrat-nominated judges voted with the six Republican-nominated judges who strenuously denounced the court’s decision, further demonstrating how transgenderism has quickly become a litmus test for ambitious progressives in the Democratic Party.
The majority decision in the Fourth Circuit federal appeals court said existing constitutional rules forbidding sexual discrimination also forbid denials of transgender surgeries in state-run healthcare programs.
Any denial of the surgeries cannot be enforced without first deciding if the patient is male or female by checking their biology and asking for their “gender identity,” the court said. Judge Roger Gregory wrote that the determination of male or female status would be “obviously discriminatory” because:
The exclusions cannot function without relying on direct — not just proxy-based — [sex and gender] discrimination … While the exclusion may apply to everyone, for many treatments, it is only relevant to transgender individuals. The billionaire-backed supporters of transgenderism say the federal government must enforce the wishes of people who say their unverifiable sense of “gender identity” is more important than their male or female sex — whether in sports, bathrooms, workplaces, or civic awards. Transgender people comprise less than one percent of the population, and their political demands would prevent the remaining 99 percent of Americans from recognizing that the two sexes have different but complementary needs and preferences.
A small share of adults who claim to be transgender undergo genital surgery. However, a significant number of older teenagers and 20-something youths undergo irreversible surgeries amid a chaotic, diversified culture.
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And children with mentally ill parents or "guardians."
I would say states should observe the order just like Biden
did on paying off school debt, the courts shot down.
Yup. Soon the whole house of cards will collapse.
History is NOT going to be kind to these horrible people - the sexual mutilation of children won’t age well.
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