https://news.yahoo.com/court-reinstates-tennessee-ban-care-134610764.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Tennessee law prohibiting doctors from providing
medical care such as puberty-blockers and gender affirming surgery for
transgender minors can go into effect immediately, a U.S. appeals court
ruled Saturday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said advocacy groups that
had challenged Tennessee's law could not show they were likely to prevail
on their claims it violated the U.S. Constitution. The panel of three
judges voted 2-1 to reverse a lower court's decision that had blocked
Tennessee from enforcing the law while it was being challenged.
"Life-tenured federal judges should be wary of removing a vexing and novel
topic of medical debate from the ebbs and flows of democracy by construing
a largely unamendable federal constitution to occupy the field," Judge
Jeffrey Sutton wrote for the appeals court.
Neither the advocacy groups that challenged the law nor the state's
attorney general could be reached Saturday morning.
Tennessee's law is part of a growing series of efforts by Republican
lawmakers to impose new restrictions on medical care for transgender
youths. Lawmakers said the measure was necessary to protect minors from
being permanently harmed. Medical associations have said gender-affirming
care can be life-saving.
It bans any medical procedure performed for the purpose of enabling a
minor to identify with a gender other than the one they were assigned at
birth.
Federal judges have blocked five laws similar to Tennessee's from taking
effect. Those judges found the laws violated the Constitution's guarantee
of equal protection under the law.
The appeals court's decision Saturday said that absent a clear showing
that Tennessee's law violated the Constitution, choices about medical care
and protecting minors are best settled by state legislatures.
Judge Helen White said she believed Tennessee's law "is likely
unconstitutional" as a type of sex discrimination.
Sutton wrote that the appeals court will try to reach a final decision
about Tennessee's law by Sept. 30. "These initial views, we must
acknowledge, are just that: initial," he wrote. "We may be wrong."
(Reporting by Brad Heath; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
Richard
15 hours ago
I'm absolutely opposed to people that say minors should be allowed to make
these life altering decisions resulting in irreversible mutilation, with
or without parental consent. I think kids should be allowed to grow up and
grow into their feelings at their own speed. When they're 18, then make
the life altering and irreversible decisions.
Richard
15 hours ago
I'm absolutely opposed to people that say minors should be allowed to make
these life altering decisions resulting in irreversible mutilation, with
or without parental consent. I think kids should be allowed to grow up and
grow into their feelings at their own speed. When they're 18, then make
the life altering and irreversible decisions.
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