Florida
The bill was passed By 2023, to protect children from the harms of gender reassignment Ban The Sunshine State, which bans the performance of genital mutilation on minors and the prescription of puberty suppressants to sterilize children, has also made it a felony to provide such surgery or drugs.
An effort by Republican lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis to protect children was temporarily rolled back on Tuesday.
Robert HinkleA federal judge appointed by Clinton.
Hinkle
Claimed In his ruling, he said “gender identity is a reality” and that providing drugs was illegal. It has been used for a long time Chemically castrating sex offenders has been deemed “appropriate treatment,” but so-called gender reassignment treatments are increasingly being recognised among medical professionals in Western countries as barbaric and unscientific, and victims rarely give proper consent.
Hinkle’s arguments are reminiscent of those made by Clinton’s fellow Judge B. Lynn Winmill in December.
Winmill, who blocked Idaho’s anti-child sex-change law after it was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, cited as legitimate guidelines put forward by the Global Association of Transgender Health Professionals, which was exposed earlier this year as a purveyor of destructive pseudoscience after internal documents were leaked.
Judge Hinkle concluded that Florida’s child protection laws were “unconstitutional.”
When Governor DeSantis announced that Florida would appeal the ruling, one reporter expressed concern about the potential cost of an appeal.
The reporter asked, “I heard from your office that you plan to appeal yesterday’s gender reassignment ruling. So my question is, we are talking about taxpayer budgets, so why should taxpayer money be used for an appeal?”
DeSantis didn’t mince words in his response.
“So you’re basically saying that the people of Florida shouldn’t govern themselves.”
“Mutilating a minor is wrong because it’s wrong! It’s wrong,” Governor DeSantis said. “Performing sex reassignment surgery on a 16-year-old is wrong. You’re not allowed to get a tattoo, so why is it okay to mutilate a genital area?”
“No joke,” DeSantis continued, “this is wrong. And I would also say this has already been decided by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. They upheld an Alabama law that is almost identical to Florida’s law.”
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Domination On January 11, Alabama announced that its ban on adolescent sex-reassignment surgery could remain in effect. The state’s Republican Attorney General, Steve Marshall, said: Said “This is a huge victory for our country, for our children and for common sense,” he said at the time.
“This will be overturned. There’s no question it will be overturned,” DeSantis stressed.
The governor then urged the reporters who were stoking concerns to think about how the Framers of the Constitution thought.
When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution and the first Congress passed the Bill of Rights, or even when they passed the Reconstruction Amendments in the 1860s, do you think there was a single person involved in that that thought there was a constitutional right to genital mutilation? That’s ridiculous.
Governor DeSantis sharply criticized a reporter for suggesting that Florida should not fight back against an activist judge after he suggested there was no question about whether the state has a right to protect children from losing their genitals in unscientific rituals.
DeSantis pointed out that by suggesting Florida shouldn’t spend money on appeals, the reporter was effectively saying “any liberal judge should be able to veto Florida’s policy because they go to the same judges every time, lose almost every time, and then win on appeal almost every time.”
“So if you’re not going to defend Florida’s duly enacted laws against liberal jurisprudence, then you’re basically saying Floridians shouldn’t govern themselves, that we should leave our fate to some judge,” DeSantis said. “I refuse to do that.”
According to the Governor, the appeal of Judge Clinton’s ruling is not simply a matter of protecting the innocent and fighting those who seek to profit from their suffering, but a demonstration of Florida’s refusal to accept ideological fads over eternal truths.
“Are we going to be grounded in truth as a society or not?” DeSantis said. “If we’re grounded in truth, we’re going to say, ‘Of course, you can’t have surgery that turns a man into a woman, so you can’t have these surgeries.’
“I’m not going to put the fate of this state in the hands of liberal judges,” DeSantis repeated for reporters.
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