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EDITORIAL: Pushback is strongest in the arena of banning biological males from competing in women’s sports, but it’s also taking place within the U.S. medical establishment as moves are made to ban ‘gender transition’ treatments for minors.
The June 18 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti marks a significant victory for Tennessee and 25 other states with similar restrictions on transgender medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries for minors.
The $895-billion defense bill contains language that prohibits certain transgender procedures for minors under the military’s health-care plan.
Over 5,700 children from 2019 to 2023 had sex-change surgeries and more than twice that many were prescribed puberty blockers, according to a new report by a medical watchdog group Do No Harm. EWTN News identified 150 Catholic hospitals among those that provided these services. National Catholic Register staff writer Matthew McDonald has the story. Then we get another synod report from Register senior editor Jonathan Liedl as the Synod on Synodality enters the final week.
The bishop of Spokane says it’s time for Church leaders to confront the role of Catholic hospitals in immoral procedures on minors.
Florida is among the numerous states that in recent months and years have passed bans on extremist gender surgeries and drug prescriptions for minors.
Some Republican lawmakers have already indicated they will try to override the vetoes.
According to the researchers, suicide was rare among adolescents who sought psychiatric help within the time frame analyzed in the study, regardless of whether they received transgender drugs or surgeries.
The law expires on Aug. 28, 2027, and also prohibits transgender adults from access to transgender health care under Medicaid, and bars ‘gender-affirming’ surgery for prisoners and inmates.
Doctors who violate the law will have their medical license revoked. The law also grants the attorney general’s office the authority to bring action against any person who violates the new policy.
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