Judge’s repeal of Trump ban on gender-affirming care for children ‘a meaningful win for patients’, experts say
A federal judge overturned the Trump administration’s ban on gender-affirming care for children on Saturday, decrying Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “wanton disregard” for the law that “causes very real harm to very real people”.
It’s another loss for Kennedy’s agenda as secretary for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the second Trump administration – an agenda that has focused on restricting healthcare, including vaccines, abortion and gender-affirming care.
A different legal decision recently halted the agency’s attempt to raze vaccine recommendations, and new research and regulatory decisions have undermined controversial announcements by Trump and Kennedy on autism.
Republicans have been huge supporters of the “State’s Rights” argument. In transpeople’s medical care, repubicans have ignored states rights to force their ideological agenda. Doublespeak.
it’s not about State’s rights!
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Southern conservatives wanted “State’s rights” to own slaves but wanted federal government to return runaway slaves back to the south.
Republicans scream about trans fem people using woman’s bathroom because they are perverts and then demand people show their genitals before using the bathroom.
It’s state’s rights for them. Federal laws for you.
The more people believe their narrative, the less focus there is on the true mission: oppression.
Always has been. They’re just doing it brazenly now.