{"id":2285498,"date":"2024-06-28T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T20:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-supreme-court-upholds-state-ban-on-child-transing\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T20:12:38","slug":"texas-supreme-court-upholds-state-ban-on-child-transing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-supreme-court-upholds-state-ban-on-child-transing\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Supreme Court Upholds State Ban On Child Transing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-supreme-court-upholds-state-ban-on-child-transing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2285498&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Texas Supreme Court recently upheld a \u200bstate law \u2062that\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-dakota-senate-passes-ban-on-transgender-surgeries-and-hormone-treatments-for-minors\/\" title=\"South Dakota Senate Passes Ban on Transgender Surgeries and Hormone Treatments for Minors\">prohibits health care professionals<\/a> from\u2064 performing certain medical interventions, specifically referred to\u2062 as\u200c castrating and mutilating, on minors. The court decided by an\u2062 8-1 margin\u2062 that \u200dthe law does\u200d not breach the state \u200bconstitution. This ruling reverses a\u200b previous conclusion \u2064by a lower court. According to the majority opinion, the state possesses a \u200csignificant interest\u2064 in protecting children and ensuring they receive appropriate\u200c and empathetic treatment\u200b without specifying what this\u2063 would entail\u2063 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-health-dept-releases-suggestions-opposing-transgender-surgeries-for-children\/\" title=\"Florida Health Dept Releases Suggestions Opposing Transgender Surgeries for Children\">children experiencing gender dysphoria<\/a>. \u2062Justice Rebeca \u200bAizpuru Huddle emphasized that parental rights to care for their children are substantial but not absolute in influencing legislative\u200d restrictions. Justice Jimmy Blacklock, in\u2063 a concurrence, critiqued the opposing \u200dviews as morally \u2062and politically driven, challenging the \u2064scientific and medical\u200c foundations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/60-minutes-runs-explosive-segment-featuring-young-transgender-individuals-who-decided-to-reverse-course\/\" title=\"60 Minutes Runs Explosive Segment Featuring Young Transgender Individuals Who Decided To Reverse Course\">gender-affirming treatments<\/a> for minors.\u200c The discussion\u2062 in the court framed the issue as a profound moral and political debate about\u2063 the role of \u200dmedicine \u2062in gender identity issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>FDRLST\/Canva       <\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday to uphold a Lone Star State law that effectively bans gender experimentation on children.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txcourts.gov\/media\/1458813\/230697.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">8-1 decision<\/a> published on Friday, the highest court in the state confirmed the legislature&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/03\/texas-republicans-successfully-protected-their-house-from-trans-insurrectionists-now-its-time-for-them-to-protect-children-from-the-trans-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">May 2023<\/a> law <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/BillLookup\/Actions.aspx?LegSess=88R&amp;Bill=SB14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prohibiting<\/a> health care professionals from castrating and mutilating minors does not violate the state constitution, as a trial court had previously concluded.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Justice Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle, joined by Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, Justice Jeff Boyd, Justice John Phillip Devine, Justice Jimmy Blacklock, Justice Brett Busby, Justice Jane Bland, and Justice Evan Young, affirmed in her majority opinion that the state has a vested interest in protecting children.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Indeed, we have never held that a fit parent&rsquo;s interest in caring for her child free from government interference, though weighty, triggers heightened scrutiny of every statute that restricts any asserted right connected to that interest,&rdquo; Huddle wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Huddle confirmed that the court believes kids, including those struggling with their sex, &ldquo;deserve the most appropriate treatment together with support, love, and empathy.&rdquo; She stopped short, however of pinpointing &ldquo;the most appropriate treatment for a child suffering from gender dysphoria.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Justice Blacklock, joined by Justice Devine, was far more hard-hitting about the parents and practitioners prescribing irreversible damage to kids as a solution in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txcourts.gov\/media\/1458814\/230697c1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his concurring opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We <em>are<\/em> men and women, irreducibly and inescapably, no matter how we feel. Proceeding from these moral and philosophical premises, the Traditional Vision naturally holds that medicinal or surgical interference with a child&rsquo;s developing capacity for normal, healthy sexual reproduction is manifestly harmful to the child, an obvious injustice unworthy of the high label &lsquo;medicine,&rsquo;&rdquo; Blacklock wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The justice claimed the case, which was joined by several self-proclaimed LGBT activist physicians, &ldquo;is moral and political, not scientific and medical.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have become accustomed in recent years to seeing such morally loaded verbiage presented as uncontroversial fact in what were once trusted sources of authority, like medical journals and newspapers,&rdquo; Blacklock wrote. &ldquo;But from outside the Transgender Vision, neologisms like &lsquo;sex assigned at birth&rsquo; and &lsquo;gender identity&rsquo; &mdash; while intelligible as theoretical concepts &mdash; simply do not correspond to reality. Our ability to conceive of them, and even to believe in them, does not make these concepts real.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The ruling and scathing concurrence come just 10 days after President Joe Biden&rsquo;s Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/18\/bidens-doj-indicts-texas-doctor-who-blew-the-whistle-on-radical-gender-experiments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicted<\/a> a doctor who blew the whistle on Texas Children&rsquo;s Hospital, which continued to offer body-butchering services to pediatric patients after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2022\/03\/08\/texas-childrens-hospital-stops-gender-affirming-care-trans-youth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claiming it had ceased to do so.<\/a> Attorney General Ken Paxton later announced an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/cna\/cna-24176-texas-investigates-sex-changes-on-minors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigation<\/a> into the Houston-based medical center.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton celebrated the court&rsquo;s judgment and swore that no one would harm Texas&rsquo; children with &ldquo;puberty blockers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-complicated-dr-rachel-levine-dodges-sen-pauls-issue-about-sex-adjustments-for-children\/\" title=\"\u2018Very Complicated\u2019: Dr. Rachel Levine Dodges Sen. Paul\u2019s Issue About Sex Adjustments For Children\">cross-sex hormones<\/a>, and mutilative surgeries&rdquo; on his watch.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will always defend children in Texas from these irreversible procedures. My office will use every tool at our disposal to ensure that doctors and medical institutions follow the law,&rdquo; he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KenPaxtonTX\/status\/1806701879021248576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement posted to X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court upheld a state law banning gender-related medical interventions for minors. 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