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2 major rulings,
regarding medical mutilation, We're gonna be talking about
them on faith Freedom, My Matt S, founder
and Chairman of Liberty Counsel joining me is
Holly Meade. We can know recently in an
8 to 1 decision this to Texas supreme
Court
upheld.
The state's new law that protects children from
these harmful puberty blockers, hormones and medical mu
surgeries, and it's so refreshing matt to see
a court.
Actually rule
against this horrendous ludicrous gender ideology and protect
children and let them be children. Yeah. The
court determined that law did not violate the
State's constitution and allowed Texas to remain 1
of 25 states that restrict parents from accessing
and doctors from prescribing experimental
and often
irreversible gender procedures for children. The Texas Supreme
Court Justice Rebecca Huddle, who offered the majority
opinion emphasize that children
with gender confusion, deserve support and appropriate treatment.
But noted the types of treatment for this
condition are hot debated throughout the world. The
laws
challenger in this case are several parents seeking
these procedures for their children, as well as
doctors
seeking them for their minor patients just to
Hud stated the court only evaluated the case
from a distinctly legal perspective on whether fit
parents have a right under the law to
access these novel medical procedures for their children
and whether doctors have the right to administer
them. And the justice Hud said
that fit parents have a right to raise
their children without government and interference, but noted
the right is not apt salute to demand
illegal procedures. You don't mind. I've never walked
in those shoes, but it's it's truly astounding
to me that a parent would actually go
through these to steps
to have their child
take these puberty blockers hormones and even go
to the extent of cutting off healthy body
parts, but I think this justice is really
good and saying, we're not taking away your
parental rights, your authority. But this is crossing
the line. Yeah. Well, at least 25 states
now have passed similar
legislation protecting children.
The other states include, and I'll give a
list of them, but it's quite significant. And
way, by the way, have a list of
all of these
on our website, l c dot org forward
slash help kids forward slash. Help kids. Mh.
So these include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Idaho,
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, help Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas Utah,
West Virginia and Wyoming. You know, and it's
just astounding to me that we're at the
place where we have to pass laws and
go to court
over this
subject of whether we
destroy our children for the rest of their
lives and
go down this gender ideology road,
but unfortunately, we are here now and kudos
to these states that are passing
legislation to protect them. Yeah. So it's a
great decision from the Texas Supreme Court. They
tried to challenge us under Texas law in
the Texas constitution. They got slammed 8 to
1. Mh. Great decision. In September 20 23,
the federal 6 a court of appeals ruled
2 to 1 to uphold similar laws protecting
minors in Kentucky and Tennessee. And last August,
the eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that
Alabama can fully enforce its 20 22 vulnerable
child compassion and Protection Act, which also makes
it a felony
to provide any of these procedures
to a minor. That's the same court that,
ruled in favor of us for our... Our
Christian counseling cases. Right? The eleventh circuit? That's
right. Yeah.
So it's the same it's the same court
of appeals for sure. Mh They ruled twice
in favor of us. We're making it the
first decision in the country to strike down
these counseling bands. Yeah. That
Forcing the kids.
Forcing the kids really. Yeah. Pushing them into
this gender confusion, affirming their genetic confusion, pushing
them into the medical mutilation. Right. Just the
opposite of what these laws are doing. Mh.
So this
is a big big issue that's happening around
the country. But also course, you know, the
biden administration in this law or hospital.
Trying to weapon the federal government against individuals
Well. Of you know, they are trying to
push the health and human services rule to
force this issue on the states. But and
they want taxpayers to pay for Yeah. And
this is under, you know, Xavier Pac who
was the attorney general in California, and he's
the 1 who brought the bogus
Politically charged
indictment against Sandra Merit David, and we're continuing
to defend Sandra
in the criminal charges,
from the aftermath of Be, and before him,
his predecessor,
Kamala Harris. Mh So now he's been tapped
and has been at the very beginning by
The biden administration, Joe Biden because of his
very radical pro abortion
ideology,
but that has now issue
there's an injunction against this Hhs rule.
Federal judge in Mississippi has ordered a nationwide
injunction
blocking a new Biden administration rule from forcing
states to use taxpayer dollars to pay for
harmful puberty blockers,
hormones
and
surgeries.
So 15 states had sued the Us Department
of Health and Human services alleging that the
new final rule
would require state health plans to pay for
unproven and costly procedures
that can harm and mutilated a person according
to the ruling the judge agreed
that the Hhs was attempting to form a
regime of health regulators
committed to gender ideology over medical reality
and applied the injunction to all of the
states. This is a great ruling. It sure
isn't and then separate from this ruling, the
Hhs new rule that also operates. As if
the definition of sex includes gender identity,
15 states alleged that the rule would have
empowered those
with gender confusion to d sex
discrimination for being denied under
insurance coverage for so called gender transition for
procedures.
The states claim the rule would force,
state health care plans,
under a threat of losing billions of dollars
in federal funding
to pay for these interventions that cause irreversible
harms on these gender confused children.
Yeah. The ruling here in this case, marks
now the fourth federal court. Mh. In the
last several weeks to strike down
the final rules from the Biden administration in
May 20 24, the Us Department of Education
modified its title 9 final. Role by redefining
the word sex to include gender identity into
sex based discrimination protections.
So we have a number of lawsuits that
are happening from a number of states and
thank goodness for these attorney generals that are
bringing these lawsuits.
Law Biden
administration that that is using
Hhs rules
and using title 9 rules
to tried to push this gender ideology on
on schools, on hospitals, on insurance companies, on
private individuals and employees and employer. Alright. I
mean, when have you ever seen a president
push,
and I use our president Loosely,
push
you know, transgender
visibility day and things like... That... On Easter
sunday Yes. I mean, talk about bla me
there. But you just see their agenda. They're
pushing this so hard
number 1 to mu children and they're making
a lot of money off of this. Well,
this is, you know, 2 good developments. Obviously,
the Texas Supreme Court, Mh. A ruling that,
allows the Texas law to protect children to
go into effect.
That now is 1 of 25 states that
have passed similar laws. So half of the
states in the nation, and you can basically
judge which half. It's the red states versus
the blue states. Absolutely. You know, politics does
matter. Voting matters. Elections matter. Elections consequences.
And, you know, you really have this as
a red state versus blue state
distinction. That's why you have 25 states. Mh.
It should not be. No. It should cross
political ideology. This is not a political ping
pong.
But unfortunately,
there is a party that has been captured
by the abortion and
Lgbt lgbtq gender ideology.
That is very radical, and it provides very
little room in those,
situations for anybody with a dissent view. Right.
I mean, this this
agenda, this administration hates our country hates the
church
and hates children, but they wanna make money
off of this on the other hand. Well,
it's a it's an awful situation. You know,
when you look at,
Joe Biden, he ran. He says he was
gonna be the president of all people. And,
in fact,
you know, when you start pushing this kind
of stuff on people,
abortion,
Lgbtq, and you just put it in their
face and push it. And you constantly get
knocked down by the courts. Thankfully, we do
have the court system.
It's no wonder why Joe Biden doesn't like
our court system. And it's no wonder why
he wants to put the United States under
the World Health organization so that we wouldn't
be governed by our federal
constitution in our Us courts, but be governed
by some United Nations charter,
and we'd have to take up our grievances,
not in the United States, but some foreign
nation that's hostile to us.
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