This story makes a court decision last week a major victory on behalf of “religious freedom”. Rick Moran at American Thinker writes:
Federal judge overturns Obamacare rules for transgenders (excerpt)
A federal judge in Texas has struck down rules issued by HHS that would force doctors to help with gender transition procedures for transgender people even if it vioilated their religious beliefs.
Conservative groups hailed the decision as a victory for religious freedom.
“This is a common-sense ruling: The government has no business forcing private doctors to perform procedures that the government itself recognizes can be harmful, particularly to children, and that the government exempts its own doctors from performing,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel at Becket Law, which filed a lawsuit against the new federal regulation. “Today’s ruling ensures that doctors’ best medical judgment will not be replaced with political agendas and bureaucratic interference.”
The new regulation applied to over 900,000 doctors—nearly every doctor in the U.S.—and would have cost healthcare providers and taxpayers nearly $1 billion. The government itself does not require its own military doctors to perform these procedures. It also does not require blanket coverage of gender transition procedures in Medicare or Medicaid—even in adults—because HHS’s experts admitted research is “‘inconclusive’ on whether gender reassignment surgery improves health outcomes,” with some studies demonstrating that these procedures were actually harmful. But a doctor citing the same evidence and using their best medical judgment would have faced potential lawsuits or job loss.
I believe it is a modest victory for common sense and compassion and of greater significance than solely a “religious freedom” matter. To subject a child to “gender transition procedures” isn’t just a religious issue…in my opinion, it is abuse of the most heinous kind.
A frontal lobotomy to “cure” an emotional or mental condition seems downright kind and charitable, compared to pre-teen ” medical gender transition procedures”.
In its heyday though, lobotomies were hailed as great science by… what… a “scientific consensus” as “settled science”???
But, that’s just my opinion. A more studied view is available. DLH
Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme by Paul McHugh writing at The Public Discourse
The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake. Gender dysphoria should be treated with psychotherapy, not surgery. (excerpt)
