Tennessee moves to protect and defend children from the medical dangers of consuming transgender drugs and undergoing in gender transitioning surgeries. 

From LifeSite. Tennessee is likely to succeed in defending in court the state’s prohibitions on minors receiving transgender drugs and surgeries, a three-judge panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Saturday.

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Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, joined by Judge Amul Thapar, ruled against a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of Tennessee’s law, which was set to go into effect on July 1.

Sutton wrote that the state is likely to win on the merits of the case, and he argued that federal judges should not insert themselves into the debates about transgenderism and seek to impose a view on all 50 states. …

“Tennessee’s interests in applying the law to its residents and in being permitted to protect its children from health risks weigh heavily in favor of the State at this juncture,” he concluded.

Judge Helene White dissented in part, making the ruling 2-1.

President Joe Biden’s administration filed a lawsuit against the law as part of his broader push to normalize the chemical and surgical mutilation of children who struggle with gender dysphoria. …

The ongoing appeals of both Tennessee and Arkansas’ law, and the possibility that different circuit courts will reach opposing conclusions, increases the likelihood that the Supreme Court of the United States may eventually have to intervene. …

The nationwide push to make it easier for kids to have healthy body parts removed or be injected with hormones comes despite mounting evidence of the dangers of transgender drugs and surgeries. It is also an established biological fact and moral truth that it is not possible for someone to change their sex. …

For example, Dr. Michael Laidlaw, an endocrinologist, warned that puberty blockers generally lead people to more hormones and surgeries, even though “[a majority of] children who experience gender dysphoria but are allowed to go through puberty normally,… do not persist in identifying with the opposite sex.” The claim that the effects of puberty blockers are reversible is creating an “urgent public health problem.” There could be bone, brain, and pelvic problems due to the delay in development, as LifeSiteNews previously reported. …

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