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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youth.
The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.
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In a brief filed Monday, the Alabama attorney general's office argued similarly that gender transition treatments are not deeply rooted in our history or traditions," and thus the state has the authority to ban them. Alabama contends such treatments are dangerous and experimental, a view disputed by medical organizations.
Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said it is the first case he is aware of in which a state cited the abortion ruling on another issue, but added, It wont be the last.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alabama-cites-abortion-ruling-in-transgender-medication-case/ar-AAZ2NGJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=9d3c2c89fc0c47e0839c68d29f026ab0
"It wont be the last. No... It won't. They will not stop.
Karadeniz
(22,267 posts)far as they needed for their purpose, but not so far as to see into the darkness of slavery and other issues. Eventually, the light has come to those issues and more. Enlightenment doesn't stop forever at the threshold of darkness. It is probably unAmerican, and definitely unspiritual, to obstruct the social progress of enlightenment.
Phoenix61
(16,951 posts)IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)After all, we can't go one day without these fascists punching down on trans people - especially the youth. Because, I know. Texbekistan and Florarabia and Bammer are all perfect states with no problems, outside of those damned trans people... So putting a stop to them is more important than dealing with school shootings, or poverty, or natural disasters.
Fuckers.
These thugs and fascists need to get the hell out of everyone else's private lives. Really. I'm beyond tired of the hate, and beyond tired of the "freedom for me, not for thee!" shit from these hypocritical goons.
Ohhh... By the way. Do you know what also isn't "deeply rooted in our history or traditions"? Viagra. So you all gonna be true to your limp-dick selves and quit taking your little blue pills? Yeah. I'll be waiting.
This shit isn't gonna stop until they're made to stop.