The Constitutionality of Gender Mutilation Ban Is Now In The Hands of Texas Supreme Court
Jose Nino
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Senate Bill 14, the law that bans child child gender mutilation in Texas will now be put in front of the Supreme Court in order to determine its constitutionality.
This legislation prevents children from being chemically castrated by puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in addition to protecting them from receiving mutilative surgeries.
Following Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s decision to sign the bill into law in 2023, the Texas chapter of the ACLU teamed up with five families with gender-confused children to file a lawsuit to challenge Texas’ child gender mutilation prohibition, contending that it would prevent “trans youth” from receiving “life-saving care.”
Back in August, a district judge in Travis County issued a preliminary injunction, which would temporarily grant children the ability to continue accessing gender-mutilative surgeries and cross-sex hormones. The Office of the Attorney General to the Texas Supreme Court immediately appealed the injunction, halting the lower court’s injunction and allowing the law to go into effect.
On January 30, 2024, the Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on this case.
Natalie Thompson, a lawyer working for the Office of the Attorney General, argued that parental rights were not under threat in this case.
“Parental liberty interests are not in conflict with the state’s well-recognized authority to regulate the practice of medicine,” declared Thompson. “Second, a statute that distinguishes between medical conditions is not discrimination on the basis of sex. And this court should not recognize transgender individuals as the first ever suspect class that is mentioned nowhere in the Texas constitution. And third, a physician does not have a constitutional right to perform gender transitioning procedures.”
She also pointed out that the child would experience irreversible effects from gender mutilation procedures that would impact them for the rest of their life..
“Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones result in a child permanently developing secondary sex characteristics based on the opposite sex and it requires permanent medical treatment,” stated Thompson.
In the next few weeks, the court will decide whether to overturn the lower court’s decision and keep the law intact.
The Texas Supreme Court has the opportunity here to set the record straight by re-affirming Texas’ position as a bastion for social conservatism and traditional values. Should the degenerates win this time, it will open the floodgates for even bigger acts of degeneracy normalization.
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