Appeals courts uphold ban on trans surgeries on minors

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Two federal appeals courts have upheld state bans on “sex-change” procedures for minors, finding that such laws do not violate parents’ constitutional rights.

On Tuesday, the full Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an 8-2 decision, reversed a lower court injunction that had blocked enforcement of Arkansas’ ban on gender transition procedures for those under 18. The ruling allows the state to enforce the law, which prohibits puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions for minors. The court held that it does not discriminate based on sex or transgender status, relying heavily on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on Tennessee’s comparable law, United States v. Skrmetti.

The opinion, authored by Judge Duane Benton, noted: “This court finds no such right in this Nation’s history and tradition” when discussing whether parents have a constitutional right to obtain medical treatment that the state deems inappropriate.

The decision comes just after the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a similar ban in Oklahoma on Aug. 6. In both cases, the courts rejected arguments that the laws unlawfully interfere with parental authority over children’s medical care.

The Eighth Circuit’s ruling is important in that it overturned a 2023 district court decision that had blocked Arkansas’ law on constitutional grounds. With two appellate courts now siding with the states, the issue could be on track for consideration by the US Supreme Court, especially as other states’ laws face ongoing challenges in lower courts.

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  1. Mutilating the bodies of minors, with the parents permission (and cheering on this sick process) is nothing less than child abuse. The parents need to be prosecuted.

  2. If one who is not the faint of heart reads “Total Mind Control Slave”, by Fritz Springmeier, one would start to see the similarities of the transgender movement and Monarch Mind Control.

    In the book it is described that the handler of the mind control victim will use techniques to fracture the psyche of the victim and separate the personality from the core. When this separation is made, the handler can manipulate the core to take on programming and commands. The victims will not be able to truly know who they are and will be subject to control by the handler. Key words can be used to “activate” the victim to perform actions they would under normal circumstances not do on their own.

    What we see in the transgender movement parallels these techniques. Confuse the victim and make them unsure of who they are, feed them psychotropics to make them disassociate, torture their mind and keep them in a state of fear through news and social media, for trauma causes the victim to further disassociate. Then feed them narratives that the abuser is not actually the handler, but some predetermined enemy that they are directed against.

    This is what is happening at mass scale with all the leftists on psyche meds watching inflammatory news telling them they are not who they are and that republicans are “literal nazis”.

    Our minds are under attack every day and leftist fools truly think they are the good guys when in fact they are unhealthy and have been weaponized against a sane and healthy society.

    Why do you think they are so apt at dehumanizing the unborn? They have been programmed to do so under the guise of bodily autonomy.

    Look to tiktok and find youths who are self diagnosing as having DID (disassociate identity disorder)

    You will see most of the raging mob protesting the healing of our country wear multicolored hair and look like blobs. This is all by design. Our food and health industry for decades has promoted the most unhealthy of food and behaviors.

    The healthy men and women who are making better health choices and doing good works for society do not feed into what the “officials” say.

    The left are brainwashed useful idiots, the lot of them. Addicted to corn, addicted to rage, can’t decide what gender they are on the daily.

    We need to stop the devil’s narrative and MAHA.

  3. We gotta wait to vote. We gotta wait to drive a car. We gotta wait to drink alcohol.

    But hey, lets chop off yer ween at the age of 6!

    Help me make sense of this line of thinking.

    • No logic behind it.
      Remember, the very same people who think an 18 year old is not mature enough to understand the long term impacts of a student loan, also insist a five year old is mature enough to understand the long term impacts of gender “affirming” surgery/drugs.

  4. Any Dr. who has this type of impression about children and gender affirmation it appears he has no business being a Dr.!!! This is so disgusting and pathetic that it is horrible!! So many SICK a minded people in this world today that it is sick!!!

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