The following comes from a November 7 Beckett Fund press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The State of North Dakota along with several hospitals, a university, and health clinics, filed a lawsuit today challenging a new federal regulation. The new regulation forces doctors to ignore science and their medical judgment and perform gender transition procedures on children, even if the doctor believes the treatment could harm the child.
The government does not require Medicare and Medicaid to cover these same procedures, because Health & Human Services’ (HHS) own medical experts found the risks were often too high and benefits too unclear. Yet any private doctor who made the same decision about the risks would be in violation of the new mandate and face potential lawsuits or job loss.
“No doctor should be forced to perform a procedure that he or she believes will harm a child,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “Decisions on a child’s medical treatment should be between families and their doctors, not dictated by politicians and government bureaucrats.”
A new website provides leading research on this issue, including studies the government itself relies on finding that up to 94 percent of children with gender dysphoria (77 to 94 percent in one set of studies and 73 to 88 percent in another) will grow out of their dysphoria naturally and will not need surgery or lifelong hormone regimens. Studies also show that there are numerous negative effects when children undergo hormone regimens, such as increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer.
The Becket Fund filed a lawsuit today in North Dakota federal district court defending the state of North Dakota, the Sisters of Mercy, the University of Mary, and SMP Health System, a non-profit hospital system founded by nuns in North Dakota. Last month, Becket, joined by eight other state governments, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Franciscan Alliance, a religious hospital network sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration, and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, defending them from the new government regulation.
Let us see how our ‘turkey baster creationist’ Courts handle this one – perhaps a Trump Supreme Court might be friendlier to the Appeal from what past and recent history has shown is almost certain to be a political ruling.
Courts are great at ignoring Science – when it serves an ideological pogrom.
Screams CHILD ABUSE. Please good doctors, just say NO. This would be a horrid mistake for 94% of these children! Give them a chance to outgrow their confusion, lead a normal life without dangerous hormones & mutilation. This is MAD science. Fight in the courts, hopefully after Jan 20th, for this is a life long change mandated by bad regulation coming from a lame duck POTUS who is leaving Poison Pills for our nation to deal with long after he is a distant memory. There should be a moratorium on all federal regulations 6 – 9 months before election day &/or inauguration day unless it’s a national emergency. Shame on the POTUS for his administration’s ‘help’ on the gender bending of our kids. UGH!