Federal court upholds Alabama's trans care ban citing lack of "deeply rooted" history of care - LGBTQ Nation
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A dissenting judge called the court out for only supporting medical care that was available in 1868 like "blistering, blood-letting, and leeches." Lagoa wrote the original opinion as well as the concurring opinion, and drew from  the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Medical Center, where Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect any right "not deeply rooted in the nation’s history and traditions."

Abortion is not “deeply-rooted” in American history, so it can be outlawed. Trans care is not “deeply rooted,” so it can be outlawed…

Hmmm. What other healthcare-related items aren’t “deeply-rooted” in American history? Birth control, for one. In vitro fertilization, for another. Radiation oncology? Liver transplants? Ccochlear implants?

It’s quite a long list of medical procedures to be disallowed, when “deeply-rooted” in American history is the standard, but I’m somehow certain that pills for erectile dysfunction will be continue to be allowed.

  • @ShareMySimsEnglish
    12•20 days ago

    What they aren’t saying is what is deeply rooted in American history, which is what they’re aiming for by “making it great again” - eugenics, phrenology, “one-drop rule”, institutionalisation sterilisation and disenfranchisement of anyone deemed “undesirable” (anyone non white-Christian, queer people, disabled people, women who choose to stay single and or childless).

    They are so insecure in their own existence that they will hold on at all costs to the “science” they’ve made up to prove to themselves that they are superior to others, and which they can twist in to the paternalistic “responsibility” to “fix”, or simply remove, everyone who isn’t like them, to “improve” society.

    And since the science isn’t real, trying to apply logic to it is futile - of course they’ll still allow things that benefit them, they’ve taken great care to make sure they always have a way to exclude themselves from the rules (until they can’t anymore, because supremacists need an out group, and they will make up new constructs as and when they need to).