Lawsuit says Ohio's gender-affirming care ban violates the state constitution
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lawsuit-says-ohio-s-gender-affirming-care-ban-violates-the-state-constitution/ar-BB1kAe0N?ocid=windirect&cvid=eee7997d1ce4426d92487d54802dcd75&ei=13
Story by JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON (26 March 2024)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two families of transgender minors filed a constitutional challenge on Tuesday to an Ohio law that severely limits gender-affirming health care for youth under 18.
The litigation, brought in Franklin County Common Pleas Court by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio and the global law firm Goodwin, alleges the law — enacted in January after lawmakers overrode a veto by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine — denies transgender youth health care and specifically discriminates against their accessing it.
The legislation in question contains a ban on transgender surgeries and hormone therapies for minors, unless they are already receiving such therapies and it's deemed a risk to stop by a doctor...
It also banned transgender athletes' participation in girls' and women's sports. The lawsuit says the combination of the two bans violates Ohio's single-subject rule for bills.
ACLU of Ohio Legal Director Freda Levenson said the new law "will cause severe harm to transgender youth."
"These personal, private medical decisions should remain between families and doctors; they don't belong to politicians," she said in a statement. "H.B. 68 violates the Ohio Constitution in multiple ways. We will fight in court to ensure that trans youth and their parents can access critically important, lifesaving healthcare without government intrusion."
It's always girls and women's sports.
No one seems to complain when men like Alex Tilinca beat them in championship competitions. Why doesn't anybody mention all the FtM heroes that win boys' and men's competitions?
As much as things are bad in the US, they at least have state and federal supreme courts and a constitution as backstop.
In the UK we do have a supreme court that rules according to precedence. But now the current government is claiming supremacy including of the courts. Ie what the government wants goes. It could be very dire here soon. They have already thrown the kids under the bus.
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