SocraticGadfly: Court rulings and more on the law, and medical ethics, on transgenderism/sexualism

May 17, 2022

Court rulings and more on the law, and medical ethics, on transgenderism/sexualism

The slash in the header is because this blogger distinguishes between transgender and transsexual, as does the National Institutes of Health. Several state rulings related to that in the past week. 

First, a mixed bag ruling from the Supreme Court of Texas. It said the Department of Family Services was NOT answerable to Kenny Boy Paxton or Strangeabbott, but did NOT order it to stop all investigations of parents of gender dysphoric kids, who may, or may not, wind up as either transsexual or transgender adults. Instead, it said only that DFS could not investigate a family suing them, which is an invite to more lawsuits.

Second, a Dallas County court-at-law judge told GENECIS it could reopen, pending a full ruling on May 26, and forbade Children's Medical Center from blocking that. I'm curious as to what Judge Bellan will eventually rule. I stand with the Mayo Clinic on use (and possible overuse or misuse) of puberty blockers. I also note that MDs within the trans activist world (and yes, I don't have a problem with that phrase) have raised the same cautions.

In short, I'm not a two-sider on this issue, and you shouldn't be either. And, that's why I'm waiting for the full ruling. Maybe Children's Medical Center/UT Southwestern has legitimate concerns that GENECIS is pushing puberty blockers too much? GENCIS says it offers counseling with the blockers, so it does meet that stipulation of Mayo — something that puberty blocker pill peddlers (they exist) don't. And, let us remember that what's called "gender affirming care" in the eyes of one person — and one MD — could be "sex disaffirming care" in the eyes of another.

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