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November 15, 2024 - 7:10pm
The US is currently years behind its Western peers in restricting youth gender transitions, as the UK, Sweden, Norway and others limit access to hormones and surgeries for minors. But changing political winds, along with a pending Supreme Court case, could bring about a sea change over the coming year.
A federal court determined on Wednesday that Indiana’s ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for the purpose of youth gender transitions could stand, reversing a lower court’s temporary blocking of the law. A nearly identical court process unfolded in Tennessee last year, with the case now resting before the Supreme Court. Justices will hear oral arguments next month in the Tennessee case, and are expected to release a decision in late spring determining whether such bans are constitutional.
The Court’s 6-3 conservative majority will likely uphold restrictions on medical transitions for minors, but such a decision would not resolve the current split in the US over the issue. As it stands, 26 states restrict the procedures and 24 do not.
In early 2023, Donald Trump pledged to sign a law banning “child sexual mutilation” nationwide, and this month’s election results make a full US ban a strong possibility. Republicans will control the House, Senate, and presidency in the coming year, and the party has every reason to view bans on youth transitions as a winning issue. Ads highlighting Kamala Harris’s support for taxpayer-funded transition surgeries for prisoners, for example, were credited with winning over undecided voters in swing states.
Democrats have long objected to restrictions on transgender medical treatments, including for minors, generally siding with activists’ claims that the procedures are safe, effective, and medically necessary. The Biden administration has led the way on this front, with a whole-of-government effort to make legal and medical transitions more accessible through the work of numerous federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services. Youth gender transitions, and opposition to state limits on such treatments, were key to those efforts. Further, the Biden administration is one of the petitioners currently asking the Supreme Court to strike down state laws banning such treatments for minors.
But the Democratic Party, having just seen 90% of US counties shift to the Right, is divided over how it should handle contentious social issues moving forward. Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton has been the subject of a week-long news cycle after arguing against male athletes in girls’ sports, but he has maintained his position amid criticism from his party and his own staff.
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Subscribe“As it becomes acceptable — and perhaps politically necessary — for Democrats to reject transgender ideology” – “politically necessary” is all you have to know about the majority of modern politicians.
A spine that can be bent by “political necessity” is no spine at all.
I’m one gender critical liberal who has always been against transitioning confused children with dangerous, experimental drugs. Most of these children have mental health issues and many of them are same sex attracted. The whole ideology is barbaric.
Another attempt by far right “Christian” extremists to insert themselves and their insane prejudices between a citizen and their health care provider. They’ve already done it to women. Trans kids are next. Who will it be after that?
You, with a bit of luck. A total lobotomy would do wonders for your IQ level.
Ah, our kid! Look at you, still trying to be funny! Keep it up, lad, persistence in the face of repeated humiliations is very admirable!
(this is where he says something like “oh, you should know all about that” or something equally lame. I can read you people like a book!)
Giving you a dislike is like a dog raising its paw to mark its territory. It’s not that it’s pleasant, it’s just necessary.
By the way, have you recovered from the victory of “foscism” in America?
So rattled, you’re talking to yourself now. I’ll wager that’s just the start of your solo activities.
Rattled?!?! By you?!?!
At last you said something funny, our kid!
Be grateful that none of those solo activities can result in offspring. More of Champagne Socialist we do not need.
Typical CS drivel posing as clever. And failing miserably.
No you can’t! But given a few minutes you can recognise that you’ve just set yourself up!
I knew you were going to say that
I knew you were going to say that.
Yes, child sacrifice and mutilation are not worth the attention of the woke. The woke have the right to vo-opt medical care and turn it into child destruction and no one has the right to question it.
Child sacrifice? Where did you get that from, old boy?
Have heard Seth Moulton is being more than a bit hypocritical having sponsored much of the trans lunacy legislation and policy.
I hope trump stays out of it and allows the states to decide on the cultures they want.
Just had to drag Trump into it.
So allow the latest democrat peculiar institutions to fester unchallenged? Nope.
I’m not convinced that individual States should have a “right to mutilate”.
The populations have a democratic right to forge their own path. Don’t you trust them?
Seth Moulton is getting a very hard time from right wing and left wing commentators for his hypocricy (right) or transphobia (left). What I’d say is that, of course he’s a hypocrite, as are almost all career politicians, but at least he’s willing to be one of the first to put his head over the pew and say that he actually thinks it’s wrong. He’s certainly no worse than the lunatic true believers, or the cowards who know it’s morally wrong and politically unpopular, but are afraid of being uninvited from the nice dinner parties.
That’s fair.
There is going to be a cultural sea change in Canada and US due to Trump’s win – it has already started. Those of us who have been vocal about pushing for change should welcome converts – particularly politicians and leaders. Moulting deserves credit for being a first mover in his milieu – and an important one.
This transgender madness must be killed off for the lunacy it is and for the poison it promotes. It’s only big pharma benefitting from the misery of its human experimentation not dissimilar to Nazi horrors of WW2.
RANSGENDER police officers can strip-search women under new guidance issued by the British Transport Police (BTP).
The guidance, seen by The Telegraph, allows male staff identifying as female to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC).
It comes after backlash earlier this year saw similar national policing guidance temporarily withdrawn after thethen government raised concerns about women’s safety.
That would be progress.