Post AYy3mRLRJaXflZK95s by chrisgeidner@journa.host
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 (DIR) Post #AYy3mRLRJaXflZK95s by chrisgeidner@journa.host
       2023-08-21T20:52:59Z
       
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       BREAKING: A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit allows enforcement of Alabama's ban on gender-affirming care for minors — reversing a trial court's injunction. The appeals court panel was all Trump appointees. More to come at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/
       
 (DIR) Post #AYy3mSKPetJaofqq8G by eliptic@mstdn.social
       2023-08-21T21:19:13Z
       
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       @chrisgeidner It's hard to digest the legalese - is this a court upholding a ban on medical intervention in children's gender?
       
 (DIR) Post #AYy3mTCePEhTWtE9fk by chrisgeidner@journa.host
       2023-08-21T20:53:11Z
       
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       Here is the appeals court's opinion in Eknes-Tucker v. Alabama: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.78510/gov.uscourts.ca11.78510.125.1.pdf
       
 (DIR) Post #AYy3mV5zMyYlOo7rZA by chrisgeidner@journa.host
       2023-08-21T20:54:04Z
       
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       The full appeals court had previously upheld a school bathroom ban last December, a decision cited repeatedly here. Judge Barbara Lagoa, a Trump appointee to the 11th Circuit who Trump also considered for #SCOTUS, wrote both decisions.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYy4mICVPd5NMPdf6G by rifter@mastodon.social
       2023-08-21T21:30:22Z
       
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       @eliptic @chrisgeidner Yes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYy6bOzC2oRH7yLYUy by eliptic@mstdn.social
       2023-08-21T21:50:51Z
       
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       @rifter I would say that's probably a good thing then (at least for the moment). Here in the UK there has been an emerging scandal of gender reassignment treatment and puberty blockers doing irreversible harm to large cohort of children who attended the Tavistock GIDS clinic. It's a complicated case, but it appears far more harm than good was done.The level of conclusive research in the field is scant and that's had some tragic consequences which I think you would do well to avoid in US.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYy7mzVsg3FLYQj4oS by pieist@qoto.org
       2023-08-21T22:04:07Z
       
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       @eliptic @rifter Very much agreed. Our haste to rush children into potentially irreversible medicalization of what is often a socialization issue is going to bite us  --- and more importantly them -- in the ass.  Demonizing even basic confirmatory counselling as "conversion therapy" is particularly disturbing. It's like they don't want the child's mental health even contemplated before directing them to hormones and surgery.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYy9A4GhGQPgutBw00 by eliptic@mstdn.social
       2023-08-21T22:19:31Z
       
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       @pieist @rifter Yeah, a lot of these kids apparently had complex mental health problems and trauma. That needs to at least be properly understood before changing a childs body (and the rest of their adult personal life) forever. There is obviously a lot of current cultural politics surrounding the issue but I think the bottom line should be that adults take proper responsibility for children who don't have our benefit of hindsight.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYyC2cDbSDXTkysm4u by 20002ist@thepit.social
       2023-08-21T22:51:44Z
       
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       @eliptic @chrisgeidner The law bans gender-affirming care for minors (GACM).The trial court granted an injunction against enforcement of that ban.The appeals court voided that injunction, allowing the GACM ban to go into effect.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYyaHmgLENxXS75fii by LevZadov@kolektiva.social
       2023-08-22T03:23:20Z
       
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       @eliptic @rifter terf blocked