By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-16 11:30:44 | Updated at 2024-11-16 13:39:04
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Federal court upholds Indiana ban on transgender healthcare treatment for children
The Guardian ^ | November 14, 2024 | Betsy Reed
Posted on 11/16/2024 3:21:18 AM PST by fwdude
A federal appeals court has upheld an Indiana law banning the use of puberty blockers and hormones for transgender children under the age of 18, one of numerous such laws passed by Republican-controlled states.
The 2-1 decision from the seventh US circuit court of appeals on Wednesday comes as the US supreme court prepares to hear a challenge to a similar law in Tennessee, which may ultimately determine whether all such state laws around the country can be enforced.
The seventh circuit had already allowed the law to take effect in February while it considered the challenge by families of transgender children and healthcare providers, reversing a lower-court order blocking it.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
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1 posted on 11/16/2024 3:21:18 AM PST by fwdude
To: fwdude
“…the bans ‘intrude on the well-established province of parents to make medical decisions for their minor children’.”
The problem is that the states which go all in on allowing this trans-insanity on children ALWAYS quickly wrest this authority away from parents who do not want the procedures done on their children.
2 posted on 11/16/2024 3:25:43 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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