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The Tennessee Conservative [By Kelly M. Jackson] –
This week Judge Eli Richardson of The 5th Federal Circuit serving Middle Tennessee issued a partial injunction enjoining SB1, the new law passed in Tennessee this last session that would prohibit medical procedures for minors that would enable transitions from one gender to another.
These procedures include the use of hormone blocking medications (much like those and in some cases exactly like those given to sex offenders to induce chemical castration). Other prohibited procedures include surgeries that would alter and remove healthy body parts, specifically their genitalia – procedures which have been shown to have extremely painful and permanent complications.
According to the documentation, Judge Richardson only granted a partial injunction for the plaintiffs due to a lack of standing. He said that because the injunctive relief being sought was directed specifically at the hormone therapy that the new law would now be prohibiting access to, then there was no standing for these plaintiffs to ask for injunctive relief regarding the surgical procedures named in the language of the law.
Judge Richardson said in his ruling that the plaintiffs may have a legitimate complaint that the new Tennessee law violates their 14th Amendment rights to equal protections because they identify as transgendered, which would mean they are being discriminated against and not allowed to access the care they have a right to through the consent of their parents.
Which means, as of July 1st, in Tennessee, for at least the time being, hormone treatments will still be permitted, but surgical procedures will effectively be outlawed for minors regardless of parental consent.
It’s an interesting about-face for Judge Richardson who just this week, as reported by The Tennessee Conservative, threw out a lawsuit brought by several transgender people and want to have their birth certificates reflect their new gender. Judge Richardson ruled that those who were seeking to make those changes to their birth certificates would not be able to do so because they could not prove that the law violated their equal protection rights under the Constitution.
What Judge Richardson did say in this case was, “It is feasible that one might assume that because these procedures are intended to have the treated minor’s body do something that it otherwise would not do (rather than allow the body to function in a purportedly “natural” manner), the procedure must be ‘bad’ or ‘harmful’ to the minor.”
Richardson’s ruling follows a June 20 decision in Arkansas, in which a federal judge similarly ruled that state’s law violated both the First and 14th Amendments, and one in Kentucky, also on Thursday.
Senator Jack Johnson, sponsor of the new law expressed his thoughts on Twitter, “I have complete faith that the legislation we passed is constitutional. I appreciate Attorney General (Jonathan) Skrmetti’s commitment to vigorously appeal this decision — all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.”
As always we will follow all developments of this story and keep our readers apprised of any changes.
About the Author: Kelly Jackson is a recent escapee from corporate America, and a California refugee to Tennessee. Christ follower, Wife and Mom of three amazing teenagers. She has a BA in Comm from Point Loma Nazarene University, and has a background in law enforcement and human resources. Since the summer of 2020, she has spent any and all free time in the trenches with local grassroots orgs, including Mom’s for Liberty Williamson County and Tennessee Stands as a core member. Outspoken advocate for parents rights, medical freedom, and individual liberty. Kelly can be reached at kelly@tennesseeconservativenews.com.
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Just another Constitutional illiterat so-called judge that can’t tell the difference between male and female.
If into human mutilation, perhaps this judge studied under Josef Mengele?
This Judge is a idiot. No Child can identify as anything except what they are at birth or brain washed by their parents or others until they are 18. These children will be messed up for life with NO turn back. Let them grow up and make their own decisions to screw up their own life or come to their senses hopefully before the damage is done.
Studies have proven the “cure” for gender dysphoria is puberty. I believe 80% or so of minors that claim to be gender dysphoric grow out of it. This is nothing but a sick cash grab.
It’s a bizarre ruling. Hormone treatment for gender dysphoria on children is also deemed experimental. They banned it in England and Sweden now I believe. Given that gender dysphoria, true gender dysphoria, is a mental illness (that is found as a co-morbid condition with other disorders like autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc.) giving a person hormones is not the proper treatment. G.D. is a psychotic condition. Not one mental illness is treated with hormones or surgical mutilation. Lobotomies were considered treatment decades ago and used even though they were experimental. Look what happened. They don’t happen now because they are cruel and inhumane. But surgeries and hormones that cause irreversible damage and are experimental treatments, are ok? What kind of wackiness is that? Any doctor that prescribes hormones or performs surgeries should, based on the Hippocratic oath alone, should lose their license. It’s common sense.
All true, but now medical boards and medical associations are all run by Mengele wanna bees. Difference is, if the average German citizen knew what Mengele was up to, they’d have lynched him. Everyone knows what these sick, depraved, evil people are up to, and no one does anything.
Another satan worshipping evil pedophile judge. What a surprise.