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A few days later the United States The Supreme Court has abolished the constitutional rights of women to abortion, and Alabama cites a ruling banning parents from receiving adolescent inhibitors and other specific medical treatments for transgender children. Did.
This quote is a federal court injunction that partially blocked the enforcement of a newly enacted state ban on medical intervention for young people whose gender identity conflicts with their birth gender. It was an appeal by the Alabama Attorney General trying to lift it.
This appeal explicitly summons the recent Supreme Court's opinion overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, where the state legalizes abortion, for the same reason on another issue. It is believed to be the first time it has been applied to. Related to other rights.
Alabama's appeal filed on Monday, reflecting the High Court's words, states that adolescent-suppressing hormones and other treatments for transgender minors are "not deeply rooted." He claimed he had the power to outlaw for reasons. In our history and traditions.
The complaint also goes against widespread agreement among mainstream medical and mental health professionals that such gender-verifying care saves lives by reducing the risk of depression and suicide. He argued that such treatment was dangerous and experimental.
Last Friday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority decision 5-4 enacted measures to eliminate or limit women's ability to end pregnancy in many states. I immediately opened the way to do it.
However, advocates of civil liberties have attempted to target other rights that Republican-controlled legislatures oppose conservatives in a case entitled Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization in Mississippi. I am also concerned about the latest abortion ruling that will lead to.
Judge Samuel Alito of the Supreme Court expressed his majority in favor, stating that Dobbs' decision should not "cast suspicion of cases unrelated to abortion."
However, Judge Clarence Thomas agreed, in the past, to protect contraceptive rights, legalize homosexual marriages nationwide, and invalidate state law prohibiting homosexual sex. Asked the court to reconsider his decision.
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Alabama's appeal to revive a law prohibiting parents from providing transsexual care to their children is just like that. It seemed to be intended to elicit reviews. Be an LGBTQ advocate.
"This is, to our knowledge, the first case in which the state called Dobbs to attack another fundamental right," said the Director of Legal Affairs at the National Lesbian Rights Center. Shannon Minter, who is, said in an email to Reuters. On thursday.
Still, Alabama's strategy "is unlikely to gain much traction because the majority opinion is very clear and limited to the right to abortion."
Arito sought to distinguish abortion from other established rights because of its impact on ending what the Roe v. Wade decision called "potential life." However, many legal scholars point out that Dobbs casts doubt on the constitutional basis of other rights later granted by the court.
Republican-controlled legislature passed Alabama law in May, with a provisional injunction issued by a U.S. local judge less than a week after it came into force. The enforcement was blocked. Liles Burke, the appointed president of former Republican President Donald Trump.
Burke has the right to direct the medical care of children if the High Court ruling meets acceptable criteria for parents, and transgender people are free from discrimination under federal law. He claimed to have revealed that he was protected.
Burke is part of a law prohibiting sex reassignment surgery, which experts say is extremely rare for minors, and school officials keep certain gender identity information secret from their parents. I have left other provisions that prohibit you from doing so. (Report by Steve Gorman of Los Angeles, edited by Robert Barcel)