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First in the nation gender-affirming care ban struck down in Arkansas
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After hearing hours of testimony from advocates and trans youth, lawmakers gave final approval to the bill in April of 2021. Then-Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, vetoed the bill, saying it would interfere with families' private healthcare decisions.
In Arkansas, a simple majority vote is required in both the House and Senate to override a governor's veto. Lawmakers in both chambers easily overrode Hutchinson's veto the following day, clearing the way for the law to take effect later that year.
"I do hope my veto will cause my Republican colleagues across the country to resist the temptation to put the state in the middle of every decision made by parents and health care professionals," Hutchinson said at the time.
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The court found three of the state's witnesses had been recruited at a meeting of the Christian advocacy organization Alliance Defending Freedom held specifically to gather witnesses trained in various fields that would be willing to testify in favor of laws passed that limit transgender care.
"While there is nothing nefarious about an organization recruiting witnesses to testify for their cause, it is clear from listening to the testimony that Professor Mark Regnerus, Dr. Paul Hruz, and Dr. [Patrick] Lappert were testifying more from a religious doctrinal standpoint rather than that required of experts," the ruling reads.
In Arkansas, a simple majority vote is required in both the House and Senate to override a governor's veto. Lawmakers in both chambers easily overrode Hutchinson's veto the following day, clearing the way for the law to take effect later that year.
"I do hope my veto will cause my Republican colleagues across the country to resist the temptation to put the state in the middle of every decision made by parents and health care professionals," Hutchinson said at the time.
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The court found three of the state's witnesses had been recruited at a meeting of the Christian advocacy organization Alliance Defending Freedom held specifically to gather witnesses trained in various fields that would be willing to testify in favor of laws passed that limit transgender care.
"While there is nothing nefarious about an organization recruiting witnesses to testify for their cause, it is clear from listening to the testimony that Professor Mark Regnerus, Dr. Paul Hruz, and Dr. [Patrick] Lappert were testifying more from a religious doctrinal standpoint rather than that required of experts," the ruling reads.
Hmmm and tumble weeds.
Maybe Florida will find a way to include some emergency extra money in their budget to address this issue in another state.
Or that is what they do with their governor wants to use tax payer money to fund his campaign promises.
Maybe Florida will find a way to include some emergency extra money in their budget to address this issue in another state.
Or that is what they do with their governor wants to use tax payer money to fund his campaign promises.
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Gender affirming care is the new abortion. Dem's and prog's are going apeshit over being able to mutilate kids so that they can't reproduce instead of aborting them before they're born to prevent them from reproducing.
Anyone else see a pattern here?
Anyone else see a pattern here?
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Yes, "what about the children" is the right's entire schtick, even though the children that need help are typically ignored by the right
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Yes. As with abortion, conservatives want the state to meddle in what should be a private medical decision.
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THE mistake was allowing Gov to believe it had the power in the first place by suing to get an official decision based on the law. These days that mistake continues to be perpetuated by lawsuits over this or that word or phrase or meaning in the laws which attempt to regulate it. Every time someone sues under the law, they strengthen the laws which allow the government to regulate the issue by reinforcing the idea that Government has the power to act in that area.
The answer to the problem lies inside that document which Progressives continually call "outdated" and want to abolish.
Read the 4th Amendment and tell me if abortion (or any medical procedure private or covered by public healthcare) isn't within the meaning of "secure in their persons, houses, papers, or effects."
Big government, the thing that Progressives desire most, is now in the business of regulating reproduction and medical decisions BECAUSE progressives didn't want to obey the restrictions on government in the Constitution. Now that those restrictions no longer limit the Government's far reaching and greedy hands, progressives are whining and crying about the intrusion into what they claim are their private affairs.
Your bed, lie in it.
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Yes, I see a pattern, also. It's the pattern of right-wingers vilifying trans people in the same way that the Nazis vilified Jews and gay people in the leadup to World War II.
Mind your own damned business, and quit inciting societal violence against minorities. We are sick and tired of right-wingers bullying people and robbing them of their freedom. And apparently Asa Huchinson feels the same way.
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Lol, poor baby. It sounds like you're having a meltdown about the fantasies in your own head falling short of expectation and are now trying to blame that failure on some Evil Phantom Of The Right.
You should write a movie script about it. Not only might it soothe your mental agony, you might even be able to sell it and make enough money to buy a lottery ticket. Who knows, you might even win your money back with the numbers you pick.
Hey, it could happen...
Nahhh, I would never try to compete with you for meltdowns. You're a legend around here for that.
Ultimately, you Deplorables will lose on the issue of denying trans people of their rights, just as you will on denying voting rights, women's choice, and proliferation of guns.
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The progressive agenda of social change has stalled. It won't be long before the agenda gets reversed.
If you believe otherwise, you're not paying attention.
Sorry, but the arc of history in democratic nations does not favor those who try to crush freedom and civil rights.
That's why you Deplorables try so hard to subvert democracy
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Trans people? We’re talking youth!! Children! Children that can suffer irreversible damage for the rest of their lives.
Let their parents and physicians deal with it and keep the hell out of their health care decisions. Same for women's health care decisions.
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But that’s not what you and your progressive social engineers want.
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How is supporting the rule of law against lawlessness "subverting democracy"?
Because I don't care who you are, no one should get a pass for breaking the law even if they believe their cause is just.
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Not the children! .what evil people!
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That's what *I* want. Woman should be able to make their own healthcare decisions. Parents should be able to make healthcare decisions for their minor children. The only exception should be if they act contrary to the best interest of the child -- say denying a life-saving procedure because they believe in faith-healing.
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Looks like six people will need to move from Arkansas.
No big deal. California has room for them.
Then again, they declared they were a Sanctuary State and discovered that like a Kevin Costner movie, if you declare it, they will come and they don't come cheap...
No big deal. California has room for them.
Then again, they declared they were a Sanctuary State and discovered that like a Kevin Costner movie, if you declare it, they will come and they don't come cheap...
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Very egalitarian but it contains the seed of its own internal problem, who gets to define, "the best interest of the child?"
Who gets to define "life-saving procedure?" That would seem to fall under the penumbra of the separation of church and state.
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Some doctors are too quick to employ rash medical procedures. Some doctors do have ideological backgrounds and don’t always make the best decisions. Gender affirmation on children, children who don’t have enough life experience to determine what’s normal and what’s not?... Suggesting a pathway for possible gender dysphoria on young children is putting a finger on the scale. Parents know their children best and should explore all avenues before any medical procedure is implemented. How many suicides could result because a life changing procedure was premature.
I do believe that there are children who have issues with gender identity and it can be quite debilitating but what’s happening in today’s ideological climate is an attempt to normalize transgender lifestyles.
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In fact, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that gender transition does not ameliorate the feelings of confused youth. I do not believe in giving in to the whims of children before they reach an age where they can make an informed choice. Children do a lot of pretend; pretend to be a dog, a pony, the other sex, etc. Now I ask, would you allow a child to choose alterations that would make them look more like a puppy or a pony? Very few rational people would say yes (but, on the other hand, some would, driven by an unyielding and unrealistic ideology that is closer to a religion than religion itself; those people might be the ones with the mental health issues, not the child engaging in more, or less, healthy mental growth pains and learning to use their imagination).
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"Then the scientists decided to promote garbage while hiding behind their credentials. They claimed that men could be women; that universal masking would stop the spread of COVID-19; that schools had to be closed to stop mass death from COVID-19 among children, and that at the same time, protesters on behalf of 'racial justice' could safely congregate in close proximity; that the COVID-19 vaccine would stop transmission; that capitalism had to be curbed to stop global warming. They used the credibility of science to preach political nonsense.
"And in just a few years, the credibility gained by our scientific institutions has completely eroded. Just 41% of Americans now say that they believe the Centers for Disease Control are doing an excellent or good job. That distrust is entirely earned, given the CDC’s egregiously awful performance during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Ben Shapiro, PJMedia
"And in just a few years, the credibility gained by our scientific institutions has completely eroded. Just 41% of Americans now say that they believe the Centers for Disease Control are doing an excellent or good job. That distrust is entirely earned, given the CDC’s egregiously awful performance during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Ben Shapiro, PJMedia
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