The Texas Supreme Court just handed a massive defeat to all of the leftist groomers out there who have been doing their best to undermine parents and by extension the traditional family unit, which is the backbone of society, by upholding a state ban on sex-change operations and puberty blockers for minors. As you can probably guess, the groomers who want to confuse kids and allow them to mutilate their bodies are throwing fits because now they can’t use Texas children in order to destroy families.
According to The Christian Post:
In an 8-1 ruling released Friday in the case of Texas et al v. Lazaro Loe et al., Texas’ highest court upheld Senate Bill 14, which passed last May and took effect last September. The law bans medical professionals from performing sex-reassignment surgeries or prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.
Justice Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle authored the majority opinion, concluding that “the Legislature made a permissible, rational policy choice to limit the types of available medical procedures for children.”
“We therefore conclude the statute does not unconstitutionally deprive parents of their rights or physicians or health care providers of an alleged property right in their medical licenses or claimed right to occupational freedom,” Huddle went on to say.
“We also conclude the law does not unconstitutionally deny or abridge equality under the law because of sex or any other characteristic asserted by plaintiffs. We therefore reverse and vacate the trial court’s order,” Huddle added.
Justice Debra Lehrmann wrote the dissent, arguing that the new law “is not only cruel” but also “unconstitutional” and that the majority opinion “effectively forecloses all medical treatment options that are currently available to these children.”
“Although this Court has enshrined a robust conceptualization of parental autonomy for many years, in the blink of an eye, the Court tosses that precedent aside today,” Lehrmann continued. “Concerningly, the Court’s opinion puts all parental decisions at risk of being overruled by the government. The Court’s attempt to cabin its opinion to only this case makes its outcome-driven decision-making all the more transparent.”
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A conservative legal group, The Alliance Defending Freedom, filed an amicus brief that supported the state’s law, was extremely happy about the ruling. As they should be. It’s a law that will help protect children from being allowed to make life-altering, irreversible decisions and stops them from being used a political pawns for the left’s sick and twisted agenda.
“Texas rightly enacted the Minors Protection Act to protect the health and welfare of all children — supporting their natural biological development and ensuring that children experiencing gender dysphoria have a chance for comprehensive healing and compassionate mental health support,” ADF Senior Counsel Natalie Thompson wrote in a statement.
“And no reliable scientific evidence demonstrates that these dangerous medical procedures improve mental health. That’s why countries like Sweden, England, and Finland — which once recommended these procedures for children — are now restricting them and protecting children from the devastating effects they have had on countless lives,” the statement said.
One organization that was not at all happy about the ruling was the very progressive American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, which is one of the groups that represented families who were suing the Lone Star State, denounced the ruling.
“This decision by the Texas Supreme Court allows the suffering caused by S.B. 14 to continue across the state,” Ash Hall, policy and advocacy strategist at ACLU of Texas, went on to say in a statement. “Our government shouldn’t deprive trans youth of the health care that they need to survive and thrive. Texas politicians’ obsession with attacking trans kids and their families is needlessly cruel. We will not stop fighting until our trans youth have the health care they deserve and our state is a welcoming place to all.”
SB 14 includes exceptions to allow such procedures or interventions in limited scenarios, such as when a minor is “experiencing precocious puberty,” “born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development,” or if a minor “does not have the normal sex chromosome structure for male or female as determined by a physician through genetic testing.”
Not long after the legislation was passed, progressive groups banded together to file a lawsuit against the state on behalf of five families who have transgender minors. It was filed with the 201st Judicial District Court of Travis County, which granted an injunction that, on a temporary basis, blocked the law.
At the end of August 2023, however, the Texas Supreme Court issued a brief order overruling the injunction, and allowing the law to take effect while the legal proceedings continued.
This is good news for minors and for parents who are looking to protect their children from falling prey to the influence of their peers and influencers on social media who are convincing kids to get sex change operations to feel more like the gender they “identify” as.
Let’s hope other states follow suit.