WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Department of Justice (DOJ) will no longer challenge Tennessee’s law that protects gender-confused minors from permanently damaging drugs and surgeries.
Under President Joe Biden, the DOJ sought to block Tennessee Senate Bill 1, which generally prohibits medical professionals in the state from injecting gender-confused minors with chemicals or removing healthy body parts in order to make them look like the opposite sex. That challenge to the law is essentially dead following a June Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti, which affirmed that states can prohibit the procedures on minors.
On Monday, the DOJ informed the Middle District of Tennessee it no longer seeks to stop the state’s law. The plaintiffs against the legislation also withdrew their lawsuit. It follows a February decision to reverse the federal government’s position in the case.
“Last month, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee state law protecting vulnerable children from genital mutilation and other so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated in a news release. “That was the right decision, and this Department of Justice will no longer be in the business of attacking laws like Tennessee’s that protect children.”
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who oversees the Civil Rights Division, shared similar thoughts.
“The United States today undid one of the injustices the Biden administration inflicted upon the country by dismissing a lawsuit against a Tennessee law that protects minors from invasive and mutilating procedures,” Dhillon stated in a news release. “The Justice Department will continue to fight to protect the health and welfare of our children and defend states that seek to ban these barbaric practices.”
Twenty-four other states protect kids from the procedures, misleadingly referred to as “sex-change” procedures by the DOJ. A separate estimate found there are 27 states that protect kids from the procedures.
Recently, the territory of Puerto Rico passed a law prohibiting the procedures for individuals 20-years-old and younger.
While it is a scientific fact and moral truth that no one can change their sex, scientific studies and the testimonies of previously gender-confused individuals affirm the damage caused by the procedures, which have been linked to stroke, infertility, death, and other issues.
President Trump has taken numerous actions since his re-election to ensure children are protected from the permanently damaging procedures. Following an executive order in January that prohibits recipients of federal funds from mutilating kids, several hospitals have pulled back from the procedures.
“UChicago Medicine has reached the difficult decision that, in response to continued federal actions, it will discontinue all [so-called] gender-affirming pediatric care effective immediately,” the hospital announced recently, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
“We reached this conclusion in light of emerging federal actions, which would place at risk our ability to care for all Medicare or Medicaid patients,” the hospital stated.
Children’s National in D.C. also announced earlier this week it would no longer prescribe transgender drugs, according to NBC Washington.
