Judge Allows State To Protect Children From Trans Mutilation
On Monday a Missouri judge upheld a state law banning transgender child mutilation and chemical castration, as well as prohibiting Medicaid from covering these medical interventions.
In a 74-page ruling, Judge R. Craig Carter ruled that the law, passed in 2023, was constitutional in the face of a challenge from three teenagers who claim to be a gender different from their biological sex, some medical professionals, and gay lobbying groups:
Gender dysphoria is classified as a mental disorder. Generally, western medicine treats mental disorders by actually treating the mental aspect, like prescribing Zoloft to treat depression. However, the gender dysphoria treatment prohibited by Missouri uses drugs and surgeries to either inhibit normal healthy human growth or surgically remove and replace healthy human organs. Such an approach to treatment is well outside normal medicine, and medical ethicists are unable to agree on the propriety thereof.
Furthermore, the credible evidence shows that a vast majority of children who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria outgrow the condition. The Endocrine Society guidelines state that approximately 85% of gender dysphoria-diagnosed prepubertal children did not remain gender incongruent later in life. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual holds that around 98% of these children do not remain gender incongruent. Essentially, it seems that all of this untested, non-emergency, possibly unethical, possibly unnecessary care would be performed on children and adolescents when the vast majority of minors would simply outgrow the condition by the time they reach adulthood.
Carter also highlighted the experimental nature of the medical interventions, noting the “almost total lack of consensus as to the medical ethics” and a “disagreement as to whether adolescent gender dysphoria and surgical treatment was ethical at all.” (Read more from “Judge Allows State To Protect Children From Trans Mutilation” HERE)
