A county judge in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a> placed a temporary block on the state’s law shielding individuals under 18 years old from life-altering transgender procedures for two weeks or until consideration of a broader injunction against the law. 
The law, called the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act,” bans so-called &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; surgeries, such as double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys, in addition to prohibiting giving minors cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. The law does not prevent minors who were already placed on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones before the legislation passed from staying on them. 
Franklin County Judge Michael J. Holbrook put a hold on the law <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/ohio-law-transgender-care-ban-blocked-by-judge/530-598b7f3b-477d-49a9-9ad7-336f2b8897d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that it may have been unlawful because the Ohio Constitution says that bills should have no “more than one subject.” The “Safe Act” included both a ban on transgender procedures and stipulated that males could not compete on female sports teams at grades K-12 and the collegiate level. 
The law, slated to go into effect on April 24, will be placed on hold for two weeks unless a hearing for a preliminary injunction against it takes place before that time. The ACLU challenged the law, claiming it was discriminatory. 
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, said he expected the law to be upheld eventually. 
“This is just the first page of the book,” he <a href="https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-Releases/April-2024/Statement-from-AG-Yost-on-House-Bill-68-Ruling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We will fight vigorously to defend this properly enacted statute, which protects our children from irrevocable adult decisions. I am confident that this law will be upheld.”
The law was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-republicans-ban-trans-procedures-on-minors-boys-in-girls-sports-in-vote-overriding-gop-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> by Republican lawmakers in January over the veto of GOP Governor Mike DeWine. It was sponsored by state Rep. Gary Click (R), who said Tuesday that the law would be upheld after litigation was resolved. 
&#8220;We have lower court disappointments but higher court victories,” he said, <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/ohio-law-transgender-care-ban-blocked-by-judge/530-598b7f3b-477d-49a9-9ad7-336f2b8897d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to 10WBNS. 
Click added that “there&#8217;s no constitutional right to injure children, there&#8217;s no constitutional right to chemically castrate children… there is no constitutional right to this, this is malpractice and we&#8217;re gonna win in the end.”
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DeWine said he expected the court battle to go to the state Supreme Court. 
&#8220;Everybody knew that this would go to court eventually,” DeWine said. “Whatever the decision the local judge makes, it will go up to the court of appeals and I&#8217;m sure it will go from there to the Ohio Supreme Court.”
More than 20 states have passed similar laws to Ohio&#8217;s, with most surviving court challenges so far. The Supreme Court on Monday allowed an Idaho law protecting minors from transgender procedures to go into effect while litigation against it proceeds. 
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that West Virginia&#8217;s transgender sports ban violates a federal civil rights law that protects students from sex-based discrimination.

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When he was nominated to be the Assistant Secretary for Health three years ago, Richard Levine (who, in his 50s, began using the name Rachel Levine) was asked a series of questions by Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Paul wanted to know why Levine, as a medical professional, wouldn&#8217;t reject the idea of mutilating the genitals of minors in the name of &#8220;gender affirming care.&#8221; 
Here&#8217;s how the conversation went:
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That&#8217;s just a portion of the whole exchange. In the full clip, Levine evades the question multiple times. He just repeats the same rehearsed answer: He says that he&#8217;s more than happy to stop by Paul&#8217;s office at some later date to explain the &#8220;complex&#8221; science behind mutilating children. They go back and forth until Paul finally has to give up. And then at the end of it, as you saw, Democratic Senator Patty Murray from Washington congratulates Levine on his &#8220;thoughtful and medical informed&#8221; answers to Paul.
Ten years ago, this would&#8217;ve been a scene from a dark comedy sketch about a dystopia that&#8217;s just too far-fetched to imagine in real life. This should have been the moment that Levine was disqualified from ever holding public office, much less becoming a senior official in the Department of Health and Human Services. But Democrats and even some Republicans — including Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — didn&#8217;t see a problem with Levine&#8217;s answer. They voted to confirm Levine after hearing this. These are sitting U.S. senators who, evidently, have no problem with the fact that Levine supports the physical castration of children — even though he could present no evidence that it&#8217;s medically appropriate.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
To be clear, Senator Paul was not misrepresenting Levine&#8217;s position in any way. This was not a &#8220;gotcha&#8221; question. Emails unearthed by Megan Brock show that in 2017, when he was the Secretary of Health in Pennsylvania, Levine went looking for data to justify so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; for minors. 
Levine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to Nadia Dowshen, the co-founder of the gender clinic at the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia, that he was seeking information concerning, &#8220;the possibility of gender confirmation surgery for young people under 18 years of age.&#8221; Levine added that, &#8220;This could include top surgery for trans young men and top and bottom surgery for trans young women. Is there any literature to support this protocol? Please let me know if you have any references.&#8221;
In response, Dowshen wrote, “Hi Rachel, I&#8217;m not aware of existing literature but it is certainly happening. I think we&#8217;ve had more than 10 patients who have had chest surgery under 18 (as young as 15) and 1 bottom surgery (17).&#8221;
Needless to say, after reading that response, Levine did not put an end to these surgeries in Pennsylvania, even when he was told there was no medical evidence to justify them. Instead, Levine continued to hide behind the consensus of various self-appointed medical experts, including the several medical associations that have endorsed this butchery. That&#8217;s what Levine did at the hearing with Rand Paul. And it&#8217;s what he&#8217;s done ever since he assumed office.
A little over a year ago, for example, Levine commented on a viral clip featuring Jon Stewart and the attorney general of Arkansas. I&#8217;ll play a little bit of it to provide some context for what Levine said:
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Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors &#8211; ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus <a href="https://t.co/4SoH3orWa6">pic.twitter.com/4SoH3orWa6</a>
&mdash; The Problem With Jon Stewart (@TheProblem) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheProblem/status/1578414849083654144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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You can see in that clip why the &#8220;appeal to experts&#8221; is so effective. Even people who are on the right side of this issue, like the Arkansas attorney general, don&#8217;t know how to respond to it. The best she can do is say, &#8220;well, my experts disagree with your experts.&#8221; But of course that&#8217;s the wrong response. The right response is that you don&#8217;t need to be an &#8220;expert&#8221; in anything to know that mutilating the genitals of children is wrong. And if anyone claims to be an expert and defends that butchery, then they lose &#8220;expert status&#8221; immediately. It&#8217;s that simple. But for some reason, many on the Right can&#8217;t bring themselves to say that, even as the &#8220;experts&#8221; lie to them about pretty much everything — from COVID to foreign affairs to climate change and even to the mutilation of children.
In any event, Levine saw that clip, and decided it was yet another opportunity to promote these all-knowing medical associations and experts. Here&#8217;s what Levine <a href="https://x.com/HHS_ASH/status/1580277406820012032?s=20">wrote</a> on Twitter: &#8220;Accredited medical professional groups agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth. States should translate this knowledge into more compassionate policies that protect rather than undermine youth mental health.&#8221;
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Accredited medical professional groups agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth. States should translate this knowledge into more compassionate policies that protect rather than undermine youth mental health. <a href="https://t.co/FCgy88o47x">https://t.co/FCgy88o47x</a>
&mdash; ADM Rachel Levine (@HHS_ASH) <a href="https://twitter.com/HHS_ASH/status/1580277406820012032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This is a bluff that Levine has made over and over again, throughout his career. He repeatedly states that there&#8217;s a vast body of &#8220;knowledge&#8221; that justifies these surgeries and procedures. But this time, after that tweet, someone decided to call Levine out on it.
A nonprofit watchdog group called &#8220;Protect the Public&#8217;s Trust,&#8221; or PPT, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hhs-says-it-has-only-two-pages-of-scientific-evidence-backing-its-support-for-gender-affirming-care">filed</a> a Freedom of Information Act request in response to Levine&#8217;s tweet. The request sought &#8220;records of scientific evidence, studies, and/or data to support the Assistant Secretary’s claim that ‘gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth,&#8217;” as well as “records of surveys of medical professionals regarding the value and importance of ‘gender-affirming care’ for minor children.&#8221;
This week, more than a year after Levine&#8217;s tweet, the results are in. We finally have access to this data that Levine promised to show Rand Paul in his office, and which he talks about constantly. In response to the Freedom of Information Act Request, HHS produced a grand total of just one document. And it&#8217;s not a long, well-researched study that proves convincingly why we need to mutilate children. Instead, it&#8217;s a <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/gender-affirming-care-young-people.pdf">two-page</a> brochure called “Gender-Affirming Care and Young People.” This is all they could produce a year later to support their position.
And the brochure itself isn&#8217;t exactly the most compelling document. The brochure states, as a matter of fact, that puberty blockers are always reversible. But that&#8217;s not true. As even the New York Times <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> recently, &#8220;A transgender adolescent in Sweden who took the drugs from age 11 to 14 with no bone scans until the last year of treatment developed osteoporosis and sustained a compression fracture in his spine, an X-ray showed in 2021. &#8230; &#8216;The patient now suffers from continued back pain,&#8217; medical records note, describing a &#8216;permanent disability&#8217; caused by the blockers.”
And that&#8217;s not even getting into potential <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issues</a> with fertility. There are documented cases in medical literature of these drugs having permanent effects, and they&#8217;ve only been in use for a few years.
So the claim in the brochure, which has no citation, is completely false. As more and more children are put on these &#8220;puberty blockers,&#8221; and as time passes, that will be obvious to everyone.
But the brochure provided by the Biden administration doesn&#8217;t stop there. It also claims that, “research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender-diverse children.” And as evidence of that claim, the brochure cites one study in a footnote.
This <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">single study</a>, The Daily Wire&#8217;s Luke Rosiak reported yesterday, supposedly &#8220;showed that transgender-identifying young people were slightly less suicidal when receiving treatment.&#8221; Specifically, the researchers say that they found in a survey group that 51% of trans-identifying young people who were receiving cross-sex hormones were suicidal, compared to 62% who weren’t receiving hormones but wanted them. But even the authors of this study admit that it doesn&#8217;t prove anything about causation. They write, &#8220;causation cannot be inferred due to the study’s cross-sectional design. It is possible that those who historically have higher rates of depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors are also less able to seek or obtain [cross-sex hormones].&#8221;
This also says absolutely nothing about the long term psychological effects of this “treatment.” They offer no evidence, no research, on that question. None at all. This is the sum total of the evidence that the Biden administration was able to present to justify the castration of children. It&#8217;s a two-page pamphlet that links to a study from three years ago, in which the authors admit that their study doesn&#8217;t even mean anything. This is definitive proof — as if we needed it — that the Biden administration and the medical establishment, along with the entire American Left, jumped on board the &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; racket without any solid evidentiary basis for doing so.
That is a major problem, obviously, because they are harming children in horrific, unthinkable ways. But also because the burden of proof, for the people in favor of child castration, is especially high. Like I’ve explained many times, the burden of proof is on the people who came along claiming that we can turn boys into girls and vice versa. As they are the ones making an extraordinary claim that contradicts what everyone in the history of the world has always known to be true, they needed to have extraordinary evidence to support their position. Instead they had no evidence at all. Nothing. 
Yet they were believed automatically, while the sane side was required to produce evidence refuting them. Suddenly the burden of proof was on us to prove that you shouldn’t mutilate and castrate children. Of course, we can prove our case a million times over, and we have, but the game was rigged against us from the start. The pro-child castraters wanted documented research showing the actual real world harm of these procedures on kids. But obviously we couldn’t immediately provide very much of that because we didn&#8217;t yet have real world data showing the harm that these drugs would do to kids, for the simple reason that nobody had ever done this to kids before. So they turned a whole generation of kids into lab rats. The kids themselves would become the data.
The only way to explain how anyone fell for this scam is that trans activists are good at one thing, which is emotional manipulation. They perfected the art of emotional blackmail to the point that weak people have allowed this to go on for the better part of a decade. But the ruse isn&#8217;t working anymore. Now people are asking to see the evidence, and there isn&#8217;t any. All trans activists can do is screech as loudly as they can about &#8220;genocide,&#8221; even though no one&#8217;s buying it anymore. We saw this phenomenon play out to a comical degree this week in Florida, which is preparing to pass a bill that would <a href="https://flvoicenews.com/bill-requiring-biological-sex-on-drivers-licenses-pushes-forward-this-is-about-biology/">prevent</a> people from changing their gender on their driver&#8217;s license. Watch how the completely calm and rational local trans activists and concerned citizens responded to this legislation:
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WATCH: Activists outraged over Florida bill that requires biological sex on drivers licenses
&quot;The only thing that this period of Florida history will be remembered for is the trail of body bags left behind.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/uo5595HYjC">pic.twitter.com/uo5595HYjC</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1754566206462275593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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No matter what the proposal is — whether it&#8217;s mutilating the genitals of children, or changing the gender on their driver&#8217;s license — the response is always the same. They claim you&#8217;re leaving a &#8220;trail of dead bodies&#8221; if you dare to disagree with their delusions.
Trans activists wield their emotional fragility like a bludgeon. We see it constantly, which leads to the conclusion that one of two things is possible. Either it&#8217;s an act and they&#8217;re really just manipulative liars and therefore shouldn&#8217;t be taken seriously, or they actually are this insanely unstable and weak and immature and therefore shouldn’t be taken seriously. Whichever is the case, or if it’s a combination of the two, the conclusion is the same: we cannot take these people seriously. And we never should have.

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The Government Accidentally Confirms It Has No Real Evidence To Support So-Called ‘Gender Affirming Care’ For Minors

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How will history judge the ideologically motivated doctors who are surgically mutilating their gender-confused, often mentally disturbed juvenile patients, as well as feeding them hormones and other drugs with dangerous, long-term, deleterious effects?
Frankly, they deserve to go down in history with the doctors who implemented the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamous</a> Tuskegee Experiment. Or the ones who “treated” mental illness and other medical problems <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-lobotomy-how-performed-why-2023-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with</a> lobotomies, purveyors of what ultimately became “one of the most criticized medical procedures in history.”
History seems to be repeating itself within the medical profession, which — when it comes to gender politics — is being driven by political correctness and critical gender theory, instead of biology and science. Doctors are using harmful, experimental, and permanently disfiguring “medical” procedures instead of trying to treat the underlying mental health conditions of their patients, something that leads to an increased risk of suicide and medical complications.
Why? Perhaps because they’re earning a <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/07/only-beginning-lawsuits-detransitioners-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fortune</a> doing it: $2.1 billion in 2022.
These physicians need a remedial American history lesson in some of the most shameful and damaging episodes of misdiagnosis and mistreatment by their profession’s ethically challenged predecessors.
The Tuskegee Experiment, officially known as the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” was a heinous medical project started in 1932 at the Tuskegee Institute by the U.S. Public Health Service that didn’t end until 1972. It involved 600 black men, 399 of whom had syphilis, a progressive, deadly disease. In order to “study” the long-term effects of the disease, these men were enticed to participate with free medical exams, meals, and burial insurance.
But the patients were deliberately and intentionally not treated for syphilis. Instead, they were unknowingly given placebos instead of the effective treatment developed for the disease by the early 1940s – penicillin. As a <a href="https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study" target="_blank" rel="noopener">result</a>, the subjects “experienced severe health problems including blindness, mental impairment – or death,” as did many of their infected wives and children.
And then there were lobotomies, which involve severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain, resulting in significant changes in personality and occasionally in severe and permanent brain damage. They became <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-lobotomy-how-performed-why-2023-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">popular</a> “starting in the mid-1930s and throughout the ’40s to treat everything from schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety to ulcerative colitis and intractable pain.” Not only were there no long-term medical studies to justify such radical surgery before physicians started using this surgical mutilation to treat patients, but it often caused “epilepsy, personality defects, chronic headaches, seizures, permanent disability, or even death.”
The gruesomeness of this surgical intervention was graphically illustrated by Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in the Academy Award-winning 1975 film, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and by Jessica Lange in “Frances” (based on the real-life story of actress Frances Farmer).
In our gender-obsessed age, the new Tuskegee and lobotomy victims are the indoctrinated, social media-obsessed, gender-confused children who increasingly find themselves subjected to what amounts to a grand medical experiment. So little is known about <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/21526-gender-affirmation-confirmation-or-sex-reassignment-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;gender affirming&#8221;</a> medical interventions — from removing sex organs, to fashioning faux organs, to chemical castration and more — that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12299393/Portland-surgeon-dubbed-Dr-Frankenstein-reveals-drawbacks-genital-ops-trans-adolescents.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Blair Peters</a>, a self-described “queer surgeon” in Oregon, acknowledged on video the significant complications associated with these procedures. He admitted that doctors like him were “figuring out what works” as they went along. 
The revealing video was later taken down.
“Gender affirming” surgery involves the creation of false “neo-vaginas” from penis and scrotum tissue, the creation of faux “penises” from the forearm and inner thigh skin of young women, and even the complete removal of a “non-binary” minor’s genitals, an increasingly popular procedure known as “<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12299393/Portland-surgeon-dubbed-Dr-Frankenstein-reveals-drawbacks-genital-ops-trans-adolescents.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nullification</a>.” <a href="https://www.emra.org/books/transgender-care-guide/surgeries-and-complications#:~:text=Complications%20of%20this%20procedure%20include,the%20blood%20supply%20is%20interrupted." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complications</a> include incontinence, bleeding, infection, tissue necrosis, loss of sexual function, and more. Critically, these procedures provide <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/09/71296/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no actual mental health or medical benefit</a> — thereby debunking the prevailing narrative that “gender confirmation” procedures are “lifesaving care.”
Gender “medicine,” like the Tuskegee experiments and surgical lobotomies, is Frankensteinian. They are experimental. They solve nothing. And they displace better and safer medical practices to suit current cultural fashions.
What’s more, minors are particularly vulnerable to the social manipulation and contagion of the gender medicine industrial complex. Children don’t reach <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621648/#b5-ndt-9-449" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full cognitive maturity</a> until around <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0003-066X.55.5.469" target="_blank" rel="noopener">age 25</a>. So, a manufactured gender identity “crisis” targeting minors under the age of 18 for gender “affirming” procedures is particularly suspect considering their inability to meaningfully consent and understand the long-term consequences of their decisions.
Several European countries that once uncritically embraced “gender-affirming care” for minors have backed off their previous positions as the lack of evidence supporting the safety of these procedures is revealed, and the evidence of negative long-term health consequences accumulates. In the United States, the FDA is <a href="https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-sues-bidens-fda-for-illegally-hiding-records-regarding-the-off-label-use-of-puberty-blockers-and-cross-sex-hormones-on-children/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%E2%80%93%20Today%2C%20America,cross%2Dsex%20hormones%20on%20children." target="_blank" rel="noopener">being sued</a> for allegedly concealing records regarding the off-label use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on minors. Nearly <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/attacks-on-gender-affirming-care-by-state-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two dozen states</a> have enacted laws prohibiting “gender-affirming” interventions for minors and medical malpractice claims by victims are <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/07/only-beginning-lawsuits-detransitioners-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiplying</a>.
The writing is on the wall. If we refuse to face it, this will be our Tuskegee, our Cuckoo’s Nest, and the blame will be ours.
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Hans von Spakovsky and Sarah Parshall Perry are senior legal fellows in The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Tennessee Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/18-state-coalition-legal-group-appeal-ruling-that-deemed-tn-law-shielding-kids-from-sexually-explicit-performances-unconstitutional" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Skrmetti</a> led a coalition of 17 Republican attorneys general to press the Biden administration over a proposed Health and Human Services rule that they say could compel foster care providers to facilitate transgender procedures on minors. 
They penned a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/TN-Foster-Care-Rule-Comment-As-Filed-Version.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to HHS official Kathleen McHugh on Monday urging the agency to reconsider a <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/28/2023-21274/safe-and-appropriate-foster-care-placement-requirements-for-titles-iv-e-and-iv-b">proposed rule</a> they say would expand the power of the federal government over family law and intrude on religious liberty. 
The rule, proposed in September, would dictate that minors who identify as LGBT are placed with providers who agree to affirm a child’s gender identity, pronouns, and provide them with “services that are necessary to support their health and wellbeing.” Federal funding would also be contingent on following the proposed rule, which the Republican officials said goes beyond the scope of federal authority. 
“The proposed rule exceeds the agency’s authority and raises serious constitutional concerns. It also hampers the ability of the states to protect kids by forcing children’s services agencies to police pronoun usage with the same urgency they address physical abuse,&#8221; Skrmetti said in a statement.
The letter identifies three major issues with the proposed rule. First, it says the policy is effectively a power grab by HHS. 
“It&#8217;s illegal. This is another example of a federal agency overreaching beyond the scope of its authority and intruding on the state&#8217;s responsibilities,” Skrmetti told The Daily Wire. 
The AGs say that HSS does not have the authority to &#8221;mandate particular federal conceptions of ‘proper’ foster care for LGBTQI+ youth, let alone support requiring agencies to restructure sex-segregated facilities and programs to instead align around foster children’s gender identity.”
There are also concerns that foster care providers would be forced to support “transitions” of minors who identify as transgender.
“The apparent requirement that foster parents facilitate risky medical treatments for youth is a particularly problematic case in point. After careful consideration, Tennessee prohibited gender-transition hormone and surgical treatments for minors because the State determined that those treatments are unproven and unsafe,” the letter says. 
Skrmetti said that the rule would impact many faith-based providers, forcing them to comply with &#8220;gender ideology.&#8221;
“A lot of foster care providers are committed to helping kids as a way of living out their faith. By laying down a thick set of rules forcing them to affirmatively promote every excess of gender ideology, and by creating a risk that either the federal government or an unhappy foster child could tie them up in costly federal litigation, this rule will interfere with their ability to help kids. It will do it in a way that could violate their First Amendment rights. And we have a shortage of good foster homes. We need to be getting more people involved, not creating barriers to providing foster care,” he told The Daily Wire. 
The AGs also say that the rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act and risks driving out qualified care providers through additional regulations. 
“The resulting restrictions would perversely undercut the Placement Rule’s stated goal of promoting LGBTQI+ care by driving up the compliance costs and legal exposure associated with taking in LGBTQI+ foster children,” the letter says. 
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The other AGs who signed onto Skrmetti’s letter represent Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. 
Skrmetti said that the Volunteer State could sue if the rule goes into effect. “Tennessee has not hesitated to litigate to stop illegal federal overreach,” he said.

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States Press HHS Over ‘Illegal’ Rule That Could Force Foster Care Providers To ‘Facilitate’ Trans Procedures

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Social Issues

Tennessee

Last night marked the single most crushing legal defeat that trans activists, corrupt &#8220;civil liberties&#8221; organizations, big law firms, and Big Pharma have suffered in years. Less than 24 hours ago, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals — which has jurisdiction over Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee — issued a point-by-point <a href="https://wp.api.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CA6-Opinion.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refutation</a> of every substantive argument that proponents of transgenderism have made over the past decade. This was not a ruling on technicalities. This was a well-articulated takedown of their claims in every dimension: medical, legal, and logical. And given the makeup of the Supreme Court, we can be pretty confident that this ruling is going to cause major problems for trans activists for the indefinite future. The upshot is that the bans on child gender transitions in both Tennessee and Kentucky will stand. Both can go into effect. When our ban was passed in Tennessee, trans activists gloated that they would easily get it overturned in court. But they failed. We beat them.
In a moment I&#8217;m going to get into specific detail about this ruling, what exactly it says, and the context for it. But one of the first takeaways is this: No matter how often you&#8217;re smeared as a bigot, no matter how often you&#8217;re told to believe a lie and to &#8220;trust the experts,&#8221; you need to maintain your convictions. If you do that, eventually you will win. And the lives of millions of children will be better off because of it.
You might remember that it was just about a year ago that we ran a series of video clips from Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee. These clips showed that medical professionals at Vanderbilt were pushing experimental operations on young people, including children, who claimed they were transgender and born in the wrong body. In one case that we uncovered, a physician at Vanderbilt admitted that operations like this were a big money maker for the hospital.
This footage, and many other clips and news reports along these lines, spurred lawmakers in Tennessee to take action. In March of this year, the state of Tennessee enacted a, &#8220;Prohibition on Medical Procedures Performed on Minors Related to Sexual Identity.&#8221; This law banned healthcare providers from “administering or offering to administer” any “medical procedure” to a minor “for the purpose of either “[e]nabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or “[t]reating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.” Basically, this bans cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
Among the procedures that were outlawed in Tennessee were operations that involved “[s]urgically removing, modifying, altering, or entering into tissues, cavities, or organs” and “[p]rescribing, administering, dispensing any puberty blocker or hormone.” In effect, this was a total ban on what the media loves to call &#8220;gender-affirming care for minors,&#8221; which is really a form of castration and mutilation. Kentucky passed a similar law.
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Shortly after this bill was signed into law in Tennessee, a judge by the name of Eli Richardson — appointed by Donald Trump — blocked it. Richardson held that the voters of Tennessee don&#8217;t have a right to overrule the &#8220;medical experts&#8221; who say that minors need cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. There is a constitutional right, Richardson ruled, for parents to dictate the medical &#8220;treatment&#8221; of children, as long as major medical associations concur that the treatment is necessary.
This was a bizarre decision, as I <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1674908142813970432" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined on Twitter</a> at the time. There were a lot of obvious holes in Richardon&#8217;s reasoning. He cited cases that didn&#8217;t support his argument, for example. And he put a lot of faith in activist doctors and quacks, like the ghouls working at WPATH, who constantly change their minds about the so-called &#8220;standards of care&#8221; of trans patients. But the end result was that Richardson issued an injunction against the state of Tennessee. He prevented the law prohibiting childhood castration, which was passed by democratically elected politicians, from taking effect.
Within days, in an extraordinary move, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals put out a preliminary opinion that rejected Richardson&#8217;s opinion and overturned his injunction. The Sixth Circuit allowed the Tennessee law to go into effect, and promised to issue a final ruling on the injunction by September. Last night, that ruling arrived. And it&#8217;s everything that parents — and anyone else who cares about children — could have possibly hoped for. It goes far beyond the tepid, wishy-washy down-the-middle approach that we see so often in so many courts. 
For one thing, the Sixth Circuit completely rejects the argument from the ACLU and trans activists that &#8220;experts,&#8221; &#8220;medical associations,&#8221; and Big Pharma should be able to overrule the will of the people. You hear this argument often from these activists. They tell you to ignore common sense, and celebrate the butchery of children because the &#8220;experts know best.&#8221; But last night, the appellate court ruled that if a majority of voters in Tennessee — or any state — think that kids shouldn&#8217;t be castrated, then their judgment is what matters. That&#8217;s the whole point of living in a democracy, after all. As the decision states: &#8220;As long as it acts reasonably, a state may ban even longstanding and non-experimental treatments for children.&#8221; In other words, unless voters are doing something that&#8217;s clearly going to kill children, then they get to override the &#8220;experts.&#8221; 
But the Sixth Circuit didn&#8217;t stop there. They noted that the &#8220;experts&#8221; haven&#8217;t even come close to proving that these &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; treatments do anything productive. Again, from the decision: &#8220;European countries that pioneered these treatments now express caution about them and have pulled back on their use. How in this setting can one maintain that long-term studies support their use—and that the Constitution requires it? Until more time has passed, it is difficult to gauge the risks to children.&#8221;
The court continues: &#8220;The relevant medical and regulatory authorities are not of one mind about the cost-benefit tradeoffs of this care. Consider the work of the Food and Drug Administration, an agency whose existence is premised on a form of medical expertise of its own.  &#8230; Gender-transitioning procedures often employ FDA-approved drugs for non-approved, off-label uses.&#8221;
The court was particularly harsh on the quacks at WPATH — the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. This is the group that creates the &#8220;standards of care&#8221; for trans-identifying patients that pretty much every major hospital relies on. The court noted that WPATH first said puberty blockers and hormones should be used on children about a decade ago. Before that, the court noted, &#8220;its guidance documents from 1979 to 2000 generally disfavored using puberty blockers or hormones for minors, and only in 2012 did it abandon age limits for cross-sex hormones.&#8221; Even now, the court observed, WPATH concedes that data on the long-term consequences of these hormones are &#8220;limited.&#8221;
Indeed, just before this ruling from the Sixth Circuit came out, we learned that a lot of the key data on puberty blockers — which has been cited by trans activists and doctors for years — is extremely misleading to the point that it&#8217;s useless. First, some background. For many years, trans activists and medical associations have said that these puberty blockers are completely harmless. They say they&#8217;re a &#8220;pause button&#8221; on puberty. Here&#8217;s one propaganda video on YouTube from one activist group that targets kids, for instance:
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Typical trans propaganda. Which is to say, deceptive and absurdly misleading. There’s no discussion in that clip of the potential harms that puberty blockers might cause. Those harms are immense and widespread. And among the harms, is the psychological damage they can cause. Data on this point has been out there for more than a decade, but scientists and researchers didn&#8217;t disclose it. Here&#8217;s what happened. Back in 2011, researchers in Britain <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243894" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a highly influential study</a> claiming that, &#8220;Overall patient experience of changes on [puberty blocker] treatment was positive. We identified no changes in psychological function.&#8221;
Those findings, and similar reports, became gospel among trans activists. The idea was that, on average, puberty blockers either help kids or at least don&#8217;t harm them. No peer-reviewed paper was allowed to contest those findings or the data they referenced. But a couple of weeks ago, a retired scientist by the name of Susan McPherson decided to double check that data. She <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.30.23290763v3.full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uploaded her research</a> to a &#8220;pre-print&#8221; website, which doesn&#8217;t require peer review and therefore wasn&#8217;t censored. McPherson found that the original research from the U.K. was highly misleading. 
Specifically, McPherson determined the research methodology obscured the fact that the mental health of many children on puberty blockers had deteriorated in just 12 months. By relying on group averages, instead of individual data, the researchers in the U.K. had managed to hide this fact.
Essentially McPherson estimated that in reality, the number of children who suffered adverse mental health responses to puberty blockers could have been as high as <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/tavistock-accused-hiding-evidence-puberty-050000205.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-third of children who were on these blockers</a>. And of course, that number would have likely grown, if the researchers had continued monitoring these children past one year. 
Think about that. A third of children on these puberty blockers suffered from deteriorating mental health — in the first year. A failure rate of over 30%in the first year is astonishingly high, and it doesn’t even tell anything close to the whole story. The whole point of drugging the kids after, and altering the natural development of their bodies, was allegedly to improve their mental health. This is supposedly the reason doctors were reducing the bone density of young children, giving many of them early-onset osteoporosis. And yet for roughly a third of these children, it failed. It didn&#8217;t just fail to help; it made their mental state worse. And the researchers failed to mention that. They chose to use a method of data analysis which allowed them to simply claim that, overall, the treatments were helpful.
This proves, once again, that there&#8217;s no data that actually justifies giving children puberty blockers, much less cross-sex hormones or administering surgeries. It also proves that doctors and &#8220;experts&#8221; have been lying about the data, as well. Thanks to the Sixth Circuit&#8217;s ruling, these experts can say what they want, and it really doesn&#8217;t matter anymore. None of their half-baked studies provide any legal justification to overturn the will of the voters, as the court ruled. And if the Sixth Circuit had stopped here, that would be a major win for children. 
But the appellate court didn&#8217;t simply reject the bunk science behind puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. They also went after other common arguments from trans activists, including this idea that they&#8217;re a &#8220;marginalized&#8221; group that deserves special legal protections. Here&#8217;s how the court responded to that claim: &#8220;The President of the United States and the Department of Justice support the plaintiffs &#8230;. The major medical organizations support the plaintiffs. And the only large law firms to make an appearance in the case all entered the controversy in support of the plaintiffs. These are not the hallmarks of a skewed or unfair political process.&#8221;
In other words, when every lawyer, medical organization, and government agency is on your side, you&#8217;re not marginalized. This is an obvious point to make, but as far as we can tell, this is the first time that any appeals court in this country has made it. Trans activists and politicians get a lot of mileage out of their false claims of victimhood, while they&#8217;re busy punching everyone else in the face. They&#8217;ve been using that tactic in the courts, too. Now it&#8217;s been rejected.
For good measure, the Sixth Circuit went on to reject the argument from trans activists that we should always defer to what parents want. You often hear trans activists and many Democrats trot this line out. Half the time they&#8217;re saying kids should be able to hide their alleged &#8220;sexuality&#8221; from their parents, and the other half of the time they&#8217;re saying parents know best and we should always defer to their judgment, even if they want to castrate their kids. Here&#8217;s how the court responded to that latter argument: &#8220;Parents usually do know what’s best for their children and in most matters (where to live, how to live, what to eat, how to learn, when to be exposed to mature subject matter) their decisions govern until the child reaches 18. But becoming a parent does not create a right to reject democratically enacted laws.&#8221;
So trans activists, the ACLU, and the politicians need to go back to the drawing board at this point. There&#8217;s going to be more litigation in this case, and in many other cases like it around the country. But every single one of their major arguments has just been forcefully rejected in a federal appellate court. For a long time now, courts have been cowed by the lies of &#8220;experts&#8221; and the false claims of victimhood by these activists. Finally, an appellate court has stepped up and said that none of their claims matter. Principles of self-governance matter. Protecting children matters. What voters want matters — not what Big Pharma wants.
Trans activists and the ghouls who profit from butchering children will regroup. But what happened last night is the clearest sign yet that they will not win. Last night, Americans who believe in self-representation and the well-being of children prevailed over demagogues pushing oligarchy and child butchery. This is a win that trans activists didn&#8217;t see coming. It&#8217;s a win that many on the Right didn&#8217;t see coming. And many more victories like this are on the way. 
As the Sixth Circuit noted in its decision last night, 19 states have passed similar laws. What we need now is for appellate courts in those states to uphold all of those laws. And if they don&#8217;t, we need to take it to the Supreme Court. The Sixth Circuit&#8217;s ruling is a clear sign — maybe the best sign yet — that our work is paying off. All that&#8217;s left to do is to take this work to its conclusion and ban this barbarism nationwide. 
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Team Sanity Wins A Major Victory Over The Gender Ideology Cult

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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the implementation of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> law banning “sexually oriented” performances in front of minors. 
Judge David Hittner of the Southern District of Texas said that the law violated the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/first-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Amendment</a> and chilled free speech in the state. The ruling blocks a law signed by Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> in June. The law has been called a “drag ban” but applies to any sexually oriented performance. 
“Not all people will like or condone certain performances,” Hittner <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23991806/2023-09-26-tx-southern-court-decision.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “This is no different than a person’s opinion on certain comedy or genres of music, but that alone does not strip First Amendment protection. However, in addition to the pure entertainment value there are often political, social, and cultural messages involved in drag performances which strengthen the Plaintiff&#8217;s position.”
Hittner, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, said that the law “impermissibly infringes on the First Amendment and chills free speech.”
He said it would be reasonable to assume that other activities, like cheerleading, dancing, or live theater, could become a crime if the law takes effect. 
<a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/SB00012I.pdf">According</a> to the law, &#8220;A person who controls the premises of a commercial enterprise may not allow a sexually oriented performance to be presented on the premises in the presence of an individual younger than 18 years of age.” It would have allowed violators to be fined up to $10,000.
“I am relieved and grateful for the court&#8217;s ruling,” <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/26/texas-drag-queen-law-unconstitutional/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Brigitte Bandit, a drag performer who sued to stop the law from taking effect. “My livelihood and community has seen enough hatred and harm from our elected officials. This decision is a much needed reminder that queer Texans belong and we deserve to be heard by our lawmakers.”
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The law, introduced by state Senator Bryan Hughes (R), also banned cities or counties from authorizing a sexually oriented performance on public property. 
“Surely we can agree that children should be protected from sexually explicit performances. That’s what Senate Bill 12 is about,&#8221; Hughes said. &#8220;This is a common sense and completely constitutional law, and we look forward to defending it all the way to the Supreme Court if that’s what it takes.&#8221;

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Judge Rules Texas Law Shielding Minors From ‘Sexually Oriented’ Performances Violates First Amendment

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Texas

A transgender clinic in St. Louis will no longer prescribe gender hormones to minors thanks to a new state law that exposes doctors to lawsuits if they provide such treatments.
The Transgender <a href="https://www.stlouischildrens.org/conditions-treatments/transgender-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center</a> at St. Louis Children’s Hospital “will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition,” Washington University, which is affiliated with the hospital, announced on Monday.
Missouri&#8217;s new law bans putting children on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones and performing gender surgery on minors. The law includes an exception for patients already on hormone treatments, allowing them to continue taking them.
Despite the exception, however, the Transgender Center chose to stop offering hormone treatments to all patients because the ban exposes doctors to lawsuits, university officials said.
“This legal claim creates unsustainable liability for health-care professionals and makes it untenable for us to continue to provide comprehensive transgender care for minor patients without subjecting the university and our providers to an unacceptable level of liability,” Washington University said in a <a href="https://source.wustl.edu/2023/09/statement-on-washington-university-transgender-center/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">statement.</a>
&#8220;We are disheartened to have to take this step,&#8221; the university added.
The law set the minimum liability at $500,000.
The legislature approved the new law in May. The measure took effect August 28 and expires in 2027.
The Transgender Center&#8217;s decision comes after explosive whistleblower accusations against the gender clinic earlier this year.
In February, Jamie Reed, a former case manager at the Transgender Center, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/emergency-room-staff-near-st-louis-gender-clinic-worry-no-one-is-ever-told-no-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went public</a> with <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegations</a> that the gender clinic had hastily put children with significant psychiatric issues on gender hormone treatments. Reed also alleged that the clinic did not make sure children and their families were fully aware of the side effects, some of which are serious.
At the same time, emergency room staff at the hospital started seeing a spike in trans-identifying children showing up every day in psychiatric crisis, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/health/transgender-youth-st-louis-jamie-reed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last month. The children were taking hormones but not receiving the counseling they needed, the emergency room doctors warned.
In recent years, the clinic saw a huge spike in trans-identifying minors asking for services. By 2021, four or five new patients were calling the clinic every day, up from 2018 when the clinic would only see four or five new patients a month. About 73% of those new patients were girls, according to internal documents reported by the Times.
Some adolescents with red flags in their medical histories <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/health/transgender-youth-st-louis-jamie-reed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were put</a> on gender hormone regimens, the Times reported. Some of those patients later stopped identifying as transgender and received no support from the clinic afterward.
Reed and the clinic’s nurse together kept a private “red flag list” of 60 patients with complex psychiatric diagnoses, a changing sense of gender, or complicated family situations. One patient on testosterone stopped taking their schizophrenia medication, one was known to hallucinate, and one had been in a psychiatric unit for five months.
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After the whistleblower allegations, Missouri’s Republican attorney general opened an investigation into the clinic. That investigation remains ongoing.
Over the last few years, critics have sounded the alarm about the permanent effects of both gender hormone treatments and surgical procedures, especially on children.
Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
The number of gender surgeries nearly tripled in the U.S. from 2016 to 2019, according to an <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808707?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=082323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open. In 2016, there were about 4,550 procedures, and that number spiked to around 13,000 in 2019.
Hundreds of girls in the U.S., some as young as 12, <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/101252?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2022-10-17&amp;eun=g394940d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202022-10-17&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have gotten</a> elective, gender-related double mastectomies to remove their healthy breasts over the last few years.
Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender as of last year.

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St. Louis Clinic Ditches ‘Transgender Care’ For Minors Over Law Exposing Doctors To Lawsuits

St. Louis Clinic Ditches 'Transgender Care' For Minors Over Law Exposing Doctors To Lawsuits

Gender

Health

Missouri

Like roughly 20 other states in the nation, Tennessee’s legislature recently passed a <a href="https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Amend/SA0003.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> prohibiting state healthcare providers from performing “gender-affirming” surgeries and administering hormones or puberty blockers to anyone under the age of 18. But, <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/gender-affirming-care-bans-continue-to-fall-in-federal-courts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">like many</a> of those other states, Tennessee was preliminary enjoined from enforcing its law by a district court that found it likely violated the Constitution.
A few days later, however, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals <a href="https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/23a0146p-06.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> the lower court’s injunction, allowing the Volunteer State to continue to enforce its gender “medicine” ban for minors. In its opinion, the court made it clear that the house of gender is built on sinking sand. To the relief of gender ideology critics and sound thinking people everywhere, the court made the case that the sprint to transition minors across America has to stop. 
The opinion came in response to a suit from three minors that identify as transgender, their parents, and a doctor who claimed that the Tennessee law was unconstitutional. Judge Eli Richardson of the Middle District of Tennessee had initially blocked most portions of the law on June 28, finding that it interfered with the parents’ Due Process right to “direct the medical care of their children,” and violated Equal Protection because the law discriminated “based on sex.” The Sixth Circuit not only disagreed, but it outright rebuked the district court judge for abusing his judicial discretion in doing so. 
In its opinion, written by Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton and joined by Judge Amul Thapar, the appellate court held that the state had a legitimate interest in protecting children from life-altering surgeries and hormone therapies. Indeed, Tennessee had rightly and rationally taken the side of caution before permitting the irreversible medical treatments of its children and satisfied the appropriate standard of judicial review — “rational basis”— for constitutional claims of this kind. What’s more, the Supreme Court in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs v. Jackson</a> only a year ago reiterated that state efforts to regulate health and welfare are entitled to a “strong presumption of validity,” and Sutton reminded the district court of just that.  
He also argued that the plaintiffs were ultimately unlikely to prevail in their suit. While affirming that there is a fundamental right to parent one’s own children as plaintiffs claimed, Sutton noted the Supreme Court has never recognized that right to extend to experimental medical treatments. Because state governments have an abiding interest in protecting their children, the states have broad power, even to “<a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/321/158/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">limit parental freedom</a>.”  
Moreover, Sutton pointed out that while the plaintiffs sought to expand the law on parental rights in unprecedented ways — a fine enough approach on its own — that effort was especially unsuited to the gender medicine debate. Alternate perspectives, dissenting voices, and democratic debate must be considered, especially when multiple states across the country have already engaged on the highly contentious issue.
Sutton likewise observed that there wasn’t even consensus in the medical and regulatory authorities about using hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria. While the nation has choked down Big Left’s Pravda on “life-saving” care for minors, true consensus, Sutton argued, would mean that the FDA would have approved the use of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for that purpose by now.
Of course, it has not. 
Sutton also cited the Supreme Court’s weeks-old opinion in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-179_o75q.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States v. Hansen</a>, noting that the lower court judge had not only departed from precedent, but he had even questioned whether the relevant precedent applied at all. On this point, even dissenting Judge Helene White agreed, writing that the lower court “abused its discretion.”  
Finally, Judge Sutton hearkened to comprehensive reviews in Sweden, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Norway, where experts have concluded that “gender affirming” medical treatments should not be offered to minors outside of research settings. In America’s national gender craze, however, it’s clear activists have seized the medical establishment. The judicial establishment — in the trial courts, at least — seems not to be too far behind. 
But just because the voices pushing gender theory are louder than those who aren’t is not a reason to expand long standing constitutional law precepts and lead vulnerable children directly into harm’s way. Thank God the Sixth Circuit recognized that. 
Perhaps the next federal appeals court to consider a state law regulating medicine and gender dysphoric minors (likely the <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/florida-looks-to-eleventh-circuit-to-revive-trans-care-limits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11th Circuit</a>) will do the same. 
<a href="https://www.heritage.org/staff/sarah-parshall-perry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Parshall Perry</a> is a senior legal fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has agreed to spend more than $3 million in taxpayer funds to expand access to sex change operations for minors, drawing criticism from Republican Senators Rand Paul (KY), Marco Rubio (FL), and Ted Budd (NC).
Titled the “<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_U01OD033248_7529" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TRANS-NIH RESEARCH SUPPORT</a>,” the agreement is between the NIH and the <a href="https://www.brighamandwomens.org/transgender-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham and Women’s Hospital</a>, as well as the Children’s Hospital Corporation, which <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/79099MF:US#xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does business</a> under the name of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-offering-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-kids-who-cant-even-drink-legally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Children’s Hospital</a>. The deal, which lists an obligated funding amount of $3,266,707, began in September 2021 and ends on August 31, 2023. 
The nearly $3.3 million plan aims to create a “Trans Health Guide” intended to “expand the local workforce of gender-affirming care providers” and “advance equity and reduce mental health disparities for TGD youth through … systemic changes that increase access to gender-affirming care.” 
People between the ages of 13 and 24 are considered transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth.
“As a senator and a physician, I am deeply concerned about the NIH&#8217;s use of taxpayer money to fund dangerous and controversial youth transgender research,&#8221; Sen. Paul told The Daily Wire. “The well-being of our youth is of utmost importance and subjecting them to harmful and experimental medical procedures is unacceptable.&#8221; 
The grant description claims that “access to gender-affirming care and family support are known to be critical determinants of mental health outcomes for TGD youth.”  The project focuses on “five southeastern states with large black transgender populations and limited access to gender-affirming care.”
Additionally, the program includes a “free online training course for continuing education credit,” as well as a platform to hold “consultations with specialists.” 
Sen. Rubio joined Paul in condemning the grant.
&#8220;The NIH should not use U.S. taxpayer dollars to encourage or promote transgenderism in children, especially when that means subjecting kids to damaging and irreversible surgeries and hormones,” Rubio told The Daily Wire. “The U.S. government should not overlook or diminish the biological reality that underpins human existence.”
“Promoting transgenderism among children raises significant concerns about their physical, social, and psychological well-being. We must protect the innocence and future of our children.&#8221;
The Trans Health Guide <a href="https://www.transhealthguide.info/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> goes into greater depth, explaining that healthcare providers “will be able to access free training materials on working with transgender and other gender-diverse youth” and “gender-affirming medical and mental health care.” 
The guide is designed to provide “an interactive educational digital platform for TGD youth and caregivers.” The site describes the project as a “multi-level intervention to improve the health of transgender and gender-diverse youth, focusing on TGD youth of color.”
“Our government should not be furthering the fallacy that chemically transitioning children is safe and effective,&#8221; said Sen. Tedd Budd (R-NC). “Taxpayer dollars should not be used to encourage gender transition interventions on young people.”
The NIH recently came under scrutiny after it was revealed that two individuals involved in its study on &#8220;Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones” committed suicide. 
Five Republican Senators, including Paul, Rubio, and Budd, along with ten GOP congressmembers, sent a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-demand-answers-nih-director-2-involved-transgender-youth-study-died-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the Acting Director of the NIH, Dr. Lawrence Tobak, blasting the study. 
&#8220;Rather than shutting the study down after such serious adverse events, the researchers published their paper, concluding that the study was a success because cross-sex hormones had altered subjects’ physical appearance and improved psychosocial functioning,&#8221; the letter said.
Boston Children’s Hospital, which has received heavy criticism over its medical transitioning of youth, was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-demand-answers-nih-director-2-involved-transgender-youth-study-died-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> as one of the participants in the study. 
January Littlejohn, a Senior Fellow Patient Advocate for <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FFNDWNXsBcZdmqZzMVxZLhMWFjSsLNNq">Do No Harm</a>, blasted the NIH’s support of child transgenderism as an “outrageous use of taxpayer money,” going on to criticize the medical research agency for pushing “irreversible, harmful treatment interventions on vulnerable and confused children.”
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“Boston Children’s Hospital lost all credibility when they released videos of their doctors stating children ‘<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11280475/Harvard-hospital-claims-babies-know-WOMB-transgender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seemingly know from the womb</a>’ they are transgender and <a href="https://www.childrenshospital.org/sites/default/files/media_migration/f0f27297-03a5-4650-b31c-c22b46bcffa6.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> to performing irreversible gender surgeries on minors,” she added. 
Dr. <a href="https://www.lgbtqiahealtheducation.org/us/faculty-advisory-board/jeremi-carswell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremi Carswell</a>, a pediatric endocrinologist and the director of the Gender Multispeciality Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital, has admitted on camera that puberty blockers are given out “like candy” and acknowledged they can cause fertility problems. She also said “providers are very, very swayed by our patients” in the field of transgender medical interventions. 
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WATCH 🚨: Director of the <a href="https://twitter.com/BostonChildrens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BostonChildrens</a> Gender Clinic admitted that puberty blockers can CAUSE INFERTILITY and are given to kids &quot;LIKE CANDY.&quot; 
Here&#39;s a thread of Dr. Jeremi Carswell&#39;s shocking statements, starting with her admission that puberty blockers can sterilize kids: <a href="https://t.co/U6XyY4H7wz">pic.twitter.com/U6XyY4H7wz</a>
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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm&#8217;s board chair, contrasted the NIH’s support for transgender medical interventions with the approach taken by other developed Western nations.
“What is needed from our government is the same commitment that Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK have made to protecting children from undergoing these life altering procedures,” he said. 
The NIH and the Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital did not respond to a request for comment.

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A doctor who has vocally opposed the medical transition of minors said he was recently sent a package containing white powder bearing similarities to letters sent to Kansas, Tennessee, and Montana state lawmakers. 
Dr. Quentin Van Meter, a pediatric endocrinologist in Atlanta, Georgia, said his office <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/homeland-security-suspicious-package-howell-mill-road-atlanta">received</a> the mysterious package on June 21, causing the evacuation of an eight-story office building. Van Meter told The Daily Wire that it &#8220;disrupted all patient care&#8221; but turned out to be bleach powder.
&#8220;No one knew what it was specifically, other than it was a suspicious package being investigated by hazmat,&#8221; Van Meter explained, adding that others in the office &#8220;had no idea that this has been aimed at me.&#8221;
The FBI has taken over the investigation.
Van Meter has testified before lawmakers in <a href="https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/CMS/ArchiveDetails.cfm?SessYear=2019&amp;MeetingId=1070&amp;Code=55&amp;Chamber=H">Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="https://account.idahostatesman.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=259081458&amp;intcid=ab_archive">Idaho</a>, and <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/05/florida-gender-affirming-medical-treatment-ban-00050174">Florida</a> to advocate against the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone therapy, and sex change operations on minors. He told The Daily Wire that he believes the mailing was related to his advocacy, telling law enforcement he has &#8220;thousands&#8221; of enemies for his efforts to &#8220;save the lives of these kids&#8221; pursuing so-called &#8216;gender-affirming&#8217; surgeries.
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Van Meter said the package he received appeared to be similar to those sent to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/19/us/kansas-white-powder-letters/index.html">lawmakers</a> in Kansas that were signed by “your secret despiser.” Republican officials and legislators in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/multiple-republican-officials-in-kansas-receive-cryptic-letters-containing-white-powder">Kansas</a> received more than 100 letters between June 16 and June 19. The cryptic letters read, “It is important not to choke on your ambition,” and included what appear to be incoherent phrases in foreign languages. Those mailings, along with similar letters sent to Tennessee politicians, reportedly had a return address of a deceased transgender activist. One source <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-tennessee-republicans-receive-suspicious-packages-radical-trans-activism-suspected">told</a> The Daily Wire that letters received in Tennessee were also signed “your secret despiser.” 
Offices in the Cordell Hull Building, which connects to the Tennessee State Capitol, were forced to close after mysterious packages and letters containing white powder were discovered on June 22.
In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/montana-becomes-third-state-reporting-suspicious-letters-received-by-gop-officials">Montana</a>, two GOP legislators reported receiving suspicious letters at their homes containing white powder.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arkansas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arkansas</a> Attorney General Tim Griffin vowed to appeal a federal judge&#8217;s ruling<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-strikes-down-arkansas-law-banning-sex-change-procedures-for-minors-as-unconstitutional" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> on Tuesday</a> that said a ban on sex-change procedures for minors in the state was unconstitutional. 
Griffin, a former Republican congressman and lieutenant governor, said he was “disappointed” by the ruling from U.S. District Judge Jay Moody, which permanently blocked a law that would have forbidden doctors from providing hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-change surgeries for minors. 
“I am disappointed in the decision that prevents our state from protecting our children against dangerous medical experimentation under the moniker of ‘gender transition.’ Unfortunately, Judge Moody misses what is widely understood across the United States and in the United Kingdom and European countries: There is no scientific evidence that any child will benefit from these procedures, while the consequences are harmful and often permanent. I will continue fighting as long as it takes to stop providers from sterilizing children,” Griffin said in a statement. 
He said Arkansas would appeal the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit. The case will likely be randomly assigned to a panel of three judges on the court. Of the 11 Article III judges, ten were <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Eighth_Circuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appointed</a> by Republican presidents, and one was appointed by former President Barack Obama (D). 
Moody, an Obama appointee, said that the law would harm children&#8217;s mental health. 
“Rather than protecting children or safeguarding medical ethics, the evidence showed that the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients and that, by prohibiting it, the state undermined the interests it claims to be advancing,” he wrote. 
Moody’s analysis stands in sharp contrast to many medical journals that warn of the dangers of such treatments and provide little evidence of benefits to minors, as highlighted in a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-witness-unable-to-name-one-study-that-shows-benefits-of-sex-change-treatments-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> in the House Subcommittee on Health.
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The surgeries banned by the law include double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys and other irreversible genital procedures. 
As more states have banned transgender procedures on minors, leftist activists and groups like the ACLU have moved to<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-left-wing-legal-groups-backing-trans-procedures-on-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> block the implementation of the laws through the courts</a>. 
Federal judges in Indiana and Florida have blocked the full implementation of their laws, while Alabama has also had its law partially blocked. Additionally, President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has moved to sue Tennessee over its law aimed at shielding children from life-altering procedures.
Anthony Cash contributed to this report.

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Arkansas AG Vows To Fight ‘As Long As It Takes’ After Judge Blocks Law Shielding Minors From Trans Procedures

Arkansas AG Vows To Fight 'As Long As It Takes' After Judge Blocks Law Shielding Minors From Trans Procedures

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-whitesplains-racism-to-actual-black-americans-tim-scott-and-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Behar</a> sounded like she&#8217;s fine with sex changes for minors, saying, &#8220;it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re 80% of the population&#8221; as she slammed Republicans for passing bills that banned such procedures.
&#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1666482934277128192?s=20">The View</a>&#8221; co-host made the comments on Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast while speaking to Elliot Page — the actor formerly known as Ellen Page who now identifies as a man — about the star&#8217;s new memoir titled, &#8220;Pageboy.&#8221;
The two discussed GOP-led bills passed across the country to stop minors from undergoing irreversible surgeries under the guise of &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221;
<a href="https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1666476414093205508?s=20">Page</a> said it felt like the right time to write the book because we live in a time &#8220;that is so especially rife with anti-trans rhetoric, lies, misinformation.&#8221;
Behar then asked Page about Republicans she claimed &#8220;are continuing to introduce hundreds of anti-trans bills&#8221; that will ban so-called &#8220;gender-affirming health care for transgender youth.&#8221;
&#8220;Why do you think the transgender community is being attacked like this?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;What is that about? I mean it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re 80% of the population.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/TheElliotPage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheElliotPage</a> calls the rise in anti-trans laws a &quot;political tool to gain votes, &#8230; to distract people &#8230; from real issues that are happening in our society that do need to be addressed.&quot;
&quot;There&#39;s such an inundation of lies and misinformation.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA">https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA</a> <a href="https://t.co/0oULt2rwjv">pic.twitter.com/0oULt2rwjv</a>
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The &#8220;Juno&#8221; star said the bills by Republican lawmakers were probably a &#8220;political tool to gain votes.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s to make people upset,&#8221; Page added. &#8220;It&#8217;s to distract people from, scare people from real issues that are happening in our society that do need to be addressed.&#8221;
Page didn&#8217;t explain further what these &#8220;real issues&#8221; were.
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Page <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elliot-page-lands-time-magazine-cover-talks-of-transgender-surgery">announced</a> to the world in December 2020 the actor was transgender, about six years after coming out as a lesbian. In a March 2021 issue of <a href="https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page-2/">Time magazine</a>, Page discussed undergoing transgender surgery.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/smells-fishy-elliot-page-being-compared-to-jussie-smollett-over-alleged-transphobic-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Smells Fishy&#8217;: Elliot Page Being Compared To Jussie Smollett Over Alleged &#8216;Transphobic Attack&#8217;</a>

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