Biden DOJ Threatens States Seeking to Protect Children...
Apr 1, 2022 23:09:41 GMT -5
Post by leilani on Apr 1, 2022 23:09:41 GMT -5
Biden DOJ Threatens States Seeking to Protect Children From Puberty Blockers and Genital Mutilation Surgery
BY STACEY LENNOX APR 01, 2022 1:56 PM ET
On March 31, now known as “Transgender Day of Visibility,” divisions of the Biden Department of Health and Human Services went all-in on transing the kids. Several publications pushed “gender-affirming care,” which included access to puberty blockers and hormones for all children with gender dysphoria, even citing the fiction that all of the changes encouraged by these drugs are reversible. The memos even recommended genital mutilation surgeries for minors on a case-by-case basis. At least they admitted those are irreversible. Now, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) has declared itself the enforcement arm of these proclamations.
In a memo issued on the same day, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke told state attorneys general:
The U.S. Department of Justice (the Department) is committed to ensuring that transgender youth, like all youth, are treated fairly and with dignity in accordance with federal law. This includes ensuring that such youth are not subjected to unlawful discrimination based on their gender identity, including when seeking gender-affirming care.
So, how will the DOJ intervene to ensure there is no barrier to transing the kids? By invoking federal anti-discrimination laws. Of course, the federal civil rights legislation passed in the late 1960s never contemplated sexual preference or gender identity. Instead, Executive Order 13,988, signed by President Biden on his first day in office, led to a memo from the DOJ applying the Bostock v. Clayton County decision from the Supreme Court to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. It is not clear that the DOJ can extend legislation passed by Congress like this through regulation, but that won’t stop them from trying.
It is absurd that the DOJ believes a majority decision by SCOTUS related to sex discrimination in employment extends to the current debate on providing gender transition care to minors. In the majority opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch noted how narrow the decision was, writing, “They say sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes will prove unsustainable after our decision today but none of these other laws are before us; we have not had the benefit of adversarial testing about the meaning of their terms, and we do not prejudge any such question today.”
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BY STACEY LENNOX APR 01, 2022 1:56 PM ET
On March 31, now known as “Transgender Day of Visibility,” divisions of the Biden Department of Health and Human Services went all-in on transing the kids. Several publications pushed “gender-affirming care,” which included access to puberty blockers and hormones for all children with gender dysphoria, even citing the fiction that all of the changes encouraged by these drugs are reversible. The memos even recommended genital mutilation surgeries for minors on a case-by-case basis. At least they admitted those are irreversible. Now, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) has declared itself the enforcement arm of these proclamations.
In a memo issued on the same day, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke told state attorneys general:
The U.S. Department of Justice (the Department) is committed to ensuring that transgender youth, like all youth, are treated fairly and with dignity in accordance with federal law. This includes ensuring that such youth are not subjected to unlawful discrimination based on their gender identity, including when seeking gender-affirming care.
So, how will the DOJ intervene to ensure there is no barrier to transing the kids? By invoking federal anti-discrimination laws. Of course, the federal civil rights legislation passed in the late 1960s never contemplated sexual preference or gender identity. Instead, Executive Order 13,988, signed by President Biden on his first day in office, led to a memo from the DOJ applying the Bostock v. Clayton County decision from the Supreme Court to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. It is not clear that the DOJ can extend legislation passed by Congress like this through regulation, but that won’t stop them from trying.
It is absurd that the DOJ believes a majority decision by SCOTUS related to sex discrimination in employment extends to the current debate on providing gender transition care to minors. In the majority opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch noted how narrow the decision was, writing, “They say sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes will prove unsustainable after our decision today but none of these other laws are before us; we have not had the benefit of adversarial testing about the meaning of their terms, and we do not prejudge any such question today.”
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