Fri Sep 29, 2023 – 3:37 pm EDT
CINCINATTI, OHIO (LifeSiteNews) — Gender-confused children can be protected from dangerous surgical and chemical mutilation in Kentucky and Tennessee, sometimes misleadingly called “gender-affirming care,” following a ruling on Thursday.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld laws in the two states that generally prohibited the procedures on minors.
The three-panel judge cited substantial medical evidence that showed the dangers of these procedures, which also promote the false idea that someone can change their gender.
The majority opinion stated:
Kentucky and Tennessee offered considerable evidence about the risks of
these treatments and the flaws in existing research. Administering puberty blockers to prevent pubertal development can cause diminished bone density, infertility, and sexual dysfunction.
Introducing high doses of testosterone to female minors increases the risk of erythrocytosis, myocardial infarction, liver dysfunction, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, and breast and uterine cancer. And giving young males high amounts of estrogen can cause sexual dysfunction and increases the risk of macroprolactinoma, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, cholelithiasis, and hypertriglyceridemia.
The two judges in the majority, Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton and Judge Amul Thapar, cited the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling
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