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The Trump administration has taken strong action against the transgender movement, but we cannot mistake action for victory — the radical trans movement is still marching.
The Colorado Supreme Court recently ordered a children’s hospital to resume transgender treatments and surgeries on minors, even though doing so could cost the hospital its federal funding. The Trump administration threatened to pull that funding from any facility performing these procedures on children, though a Biden-appointed federal judge in Oregon purported to block that rule. Children’s Hospital Colorado wisely suspended its program in response to the funding threat, but the state supreme court overruled it anyway.
Meanwhile, in Virginia — a state dominated by federal employees and increasingly aligned with the blue-state agenda — a Norfolk police officer who objected to being ordered to use transgender pronouns was stripped of his gun, suspended, and fired. Norfolk is a military town with deep conservative roots, and the fact that officers there are being fired for stating plain truth tells you how far Democrat-led Virginia is willing to go.
In Kansas, a Democrat-appointed county judge issued a 117-page injunction blocking a good transgender protection law that the Republican legislature had passed over the governor’s veto. The Kansas Supreme Court invented a right of personal autonomy out of thin air to justify the ruling — words that appear nowhere in a 167-year-old state constitution. In Montana, the state supreme court ordered that state agencies cannot refuse to alter birth certificates and driver’s licenses to reflect transgender demands. These rulings were grounded in state constitutions and state law, which generally shields them from U.S. Supreme Court review.
And that brings us to the Supreme Court. The Court indicated in last year’s Skrmetti decision that the U.S. Constitution does not grant a right to transgender procedures for minors — and upheld Tennessee’s protective law. That precedent, however, does not reach pro-transgender rulings based on state law. Despite this federalist fact, federal government still has tools — including and especially withholding funding and requiring public transparency about which facilities perform these procedures.
The entire leftwing political apparatus remains locked in step with the transgender agenda. The battle is far from over.
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