Tue Aug 22, 2023 – 11:21 am EDTTue Aug 22, 2023 – 11:36 am EDT
ATLANTA, Georgia (LifeSiteNews) — Alabama can protect gender-confused children from harmful surgical and chemical interventions while a court case unfolds, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday.
The decision allows the state’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act to remain in place. The act outlaws “prescribing or administering” hormones and puberty blockers to gender-confused minors under age 19 and also bans sterilizing “sex change” surgeries and other procedures to remove “healthy or non-diseased body part[s] or tissue” of a child, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.
Judge Barbara Lagoa, a Trump appointee, ruled “the district court abused its discretion in issuing this preliminary injunction because it applied the wrong standard of scrutiny.” A district court originally blocked the law’s enforcement in May 2022.
“The plaintiffs have not presented any authority that supports the existence of a constitutional right to ‘treat [one’s] children with transitioning medications subject to medically accepted standards,’” the judge ruled.
Judge Lagoa noted that the federal government’s own witness, Dr. Armand H. Antommaria, admitted “[t]here are risks involved in the treatment course for
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