The following report is from the Montgomery Adviser:
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Friday [April 8th] signed two bills targeting transgender youth, setting up the state for at least one round of lawsuits.
Ivey signed SB 184, sponsored by Sen. Shay Shelnutt, R-Trussville, which would subject doctors to 10 years in prison for providing puberty blockers and hormones to transgender youth. Ivey also signed HB 322, sponsored by Rep. Scott Stadthagen, R-Hartselle, which forces transgender children to use bathrooms of their birth sex and bans discussions of “sexual orientation or gender identity” in kindergarten through fifth grade that is “not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate.”
There are very real challenges facing our young people, especially with today’s societal pressures and modern culture. I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl.
Ivey said in a statement.
Transgender families have said access to the drugs, which Ivey called “radical” and “life-altering” in her statement, were life-saving and critical to their children’s well-being. Civil rights groups and LGBTQ organizations have promised a lawsuit against SB 184, which would take effect 30 days after Ivey’s signature.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Alabama, Lambda Legal and the Transgender Law Center said in a statement Thursday they would file suit as soon as Ivey signed the law.
The Alabama Legislature and Governor Kay Ivey need to consider the time and resources they will invest, not to mention the stain of discrimination that often means lost opportunity and investment, and ask themselves if targeting the health care of children is truly worth it, because we are prepared to make that investment in order to protect transgender youth, their families, and their doctors in Alabama.
said Sruti Swaminathan, staff attorney for Lambda Legal, in a statement released Thursday morning.
SB 184 would make it a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for a doctor to prescribe puberty blockers and hormones to transgender youth under the age of 19. The bill also bans school officials from withholding information about a student’s gender identity from parents.
A federal court last year blocked a similar law passed by the state of Arkansas.
Advocates expressed outrage over the Alabama legislation on a press call organized Friday afternoon, prior to Ivey signing the bills, by the Human Rights Campaign, which works on LGBTQ issues. Those on the call said it would harm an already at-risk population.
I was talking to a youth late last night. They were very emotional because they can’t see past tomorrow. And they don’t comprehend the litigation because of their of their age. And so I’m more or less concerned about their well being and not doing any self-harm.
said Carmarion D. Anderson-Harvey, the Alabama state director of the Human Rights Campaign.
Doctors who work with transgender youth say puberty blockers, whose effects are reversible, may be prescribed to youth experiencing gender dysphoria around the time of puberty, which can lead to depression and anxiety in a child experiencing it. However, a team of doctors must agree to prescribe the blockers and the parents of the child must give consent. Hormones, which are not reversible, may be prescribed later, but only after a similar round of consultations. Prepubescent children are not prescribed medication.
Shelnutt’s bill also bans genital surgeries on minors in Alabama. Health care professionals have repeatedly told legislators those surgeries are not performed in the state.
HB 322 would require schoolchildren to use the bathrooms of their birth sex. Shelnutt amended the bill in the Senate to prevent discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through fifth grade that is “not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate.” Critics have labeled it a “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Ivey said in a statement that that characterization was “wrong.”
We are talking about five-year-olds for crying out loud. We need to focus on what matters — core instruction like reading and math.
the statement said.
The bill goes all the up to fifth grade. A similar bill in Florida, also known as “Don’t Say Gay,” goes up to only the third grade.
Rep. Neil Rafferty, D-Birmingham, who strongly condemned the bill on the floor of the House Thursday, said on the HRC’s conference call Friday it was a “shameful, shameful day here in Alabama.”
Make sure they know they will not erase us. Make sure that they know that we’re not going anywhere. Make sure they know that. This is our home, too.
said Rafferty, the only openly gay member of the Alabama Legislature.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Before anyone cheers for Ivey’s actions, this is the same Governor who chastised its own people last year for having the lowest vaccination rates at the time. So she is just another windbag playing the game.
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While I think we all can agree with the sentiment to bar these perverse topics from being discussed, it is still too little too late for these public schools: the whole godless mess needs to be outright destroyed, but that won’t happen as we all know. It almost seems like when bills such as this are passed, it makes things worse: because the people are so wicked and abominable anymore, all they want to do is rebel and buck the system even harder. This is what playing out in Florida right now, with all kinds of teachers and students having rallies and standing in solidarity with the sodomites, and basically ignoring what DeSantis mandated.
An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Proverbs 17:11
And speaking of DeSantis, it shows that the media is really priming and grooming the masses to have him have a future, perhaps a run for president in the “Presidential Reality Show,” or just the next celebrity politician – as this move by Alabama has gone unnoticed it seems.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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These public schools are a piece of hell on earth and I can’t wait until there’s some nasty revolts, and it all started with having schools in the first place disregarding what the word of God says.
Then that atheist witch Madolyn Murray O Hare kicked prayer and the King James Bible out of schools-she’s in Hell now praise the Lord.
Then they started letting sodomites teach in the schools as well as feminists, socialists, atheists, all of them atheists, and professing christians, too.
I had a 4th grade teacher, I didn’t know any better, I said a quiet prayer to myself to help me with a test and she said “not in my classroom!” Fast forward from 1999 to 2016 17 years later and I find out she died. I bet she’s in hell now!
Also, the “christian” schools are no better in fact they’re in some ways worse! Like the accelerated christian education (ACE) program which I graduated from-that needs to be avoided at all costs, too!
What are your thoughts, Jacob, Bryan, readers.