#BREAKING: The 8th Circuit just ruled against the Biden Admin’s transgender mandate, which tried to force religious doctors and hospitals to perform gender transitions against their conscience and medical judgment. A huge win for #ReligiousFreedom! 🧵
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The plaintiffs are Catholic nuns, clinics, a university, and hospitals who gladly serve ALL patients regardless of sex or gender identity. They provide top-notch care to transgender patients for everything from cancer to the common cold.
They also provide millions of dollars in free and low-cost care to the elderly, poor, and underserved rural areas.
But the Biden Admin threatened them with multimillion-dollar penalties unless they performed gender-transition procedures, including on children, even when the procedures violate the doctors’ religious beliefs and medical judgment and could harm patients. transgendermandate.org
The district court rightly said this mandate--and any other like it--is illegal and must be PERMANENTLY blocked, and the 8th Circuit today agreed. This is the second appeals court to block the mandate. The 5th Circuit did the same a few months ago: becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com/20220907161315…
Gender-transition procedures not only go against many healthcare professionals’ religious beliefs, but can be deeply harmful to patients (via @EPPCdc @maryricehasson): becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com/20220622145202…
Today’s ruling protects patients, aligns with current medical research, and ensures doctors aren’t forced to violate their religious beliefs and medical judgment. This is a victory for common-sense, conscience, and sound medical judgment.
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