Susan's Place Transgender Resources

Federal court upholds Alabama's trans care ban citing lack of "deeply rooted" history of care

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-court-upholds-alabama-s-trans-care-ban-citing-lack-of-deeply-rooted-history-of-care/ar-AA1pJ2ny?ocid=windirect&cvid=f65e5b5b6ef3490e8e53a7a63181738f&ei=23

Story by Elsie Carson-Holt (30 Aug 2024)

A federal court upheld Alabama's ban on gender-affirming care in a 173-page decision that argued that parents do not have a right to get their kids gender-affirming care that's "deeply rooted in the nation's history and traditions."

A three-judge panel had already sided with the state of Alabama on its ban on gender-affirming care. In this week's decision, a majority of the 11 judges on the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider the three-judge panel's decision.

Two appointees of President Donald Trump, U.S. Circuit Judges Barbara Lagoa and Andrew Brasher, participated in the ruling. Lagoa wrote the original opinion from the three-judge panel as well as a concurring opinion in the full court's decision and drew from  the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Medical Center, where Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect any right "not deeply rooted in the nation's history and traditions."

Lagoa further said that there is no historical record that affirms a parental right for their children to receive gender-affirming care and that the ban did not violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

Quote from: Jessica_Rose on August 30, 2024, 06:54:03 PMFederal court upholds Alabama's trans care ban citing lack of "deeply rooted" history of care

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-court-upholds-alabama-s-trans-care-ban-citing-lack-of-deeply-rooted-history-of-care/ar-AA1pJ2ny?ocid=windirect&cvid=f65e5b5b6ef3490e8e53a7a63181738f&ei=23

Story by Elsie Carson-Holt (30 Aug 2024)

A federal court upheld Alabama's ban on gender-affirming care in a 173-page decision that argued that parents do not have a right to get their kids gender-affirming care that's "deeply rooted in the nation's history and traditions."

A three-judge panel had already sided with the state of Alabama on its ban on gender-affirming care. In this week's decision, a majority of the 11 judges on the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider the three-judge panel's decision.

Two appointees of President Donald Trump, U.S. Circuit Judges Barbara Lagoa and Andrew Brasher, participated in the ruling. Lagoa wrote the original opinion from the three-judge panel as well as a concurring opinion in the full court's decision and drew from  the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Medical Center, where Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect any right "not deeply rooted in the nation's history and traditions."

Lagoa further said that there is no historical record that affirms a parental right for their children to receive gender-affirming care and that the ban did not violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

It's kind of hard to cite gender affirming care as "Deeply Rooted" when most of the history of most of the countries on this planet treat any non-conforming person as an anomaly and someone who should be feared and ridiculed.

All I would say is that... Quetzalcoatl is not the winged serpent god of thunder anymore. We know how that stuff works. Stop looking backwards in time to determine what you should do now. Just do what's right for people. It is not that hard. Republicans are like the Conservatives here... what are you conserving? Massively outdated ways of thinking that go back decades. Get with the real world. We aren't in the 1940s anymore. Why this is a thing is utterly absurd to me, and most modern thinking people.

Eventually people die of old age. That's about the only hope we have. As sad as that is.