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The conservative movement has in the last two years seemingly embraced
the fight against transsexual ideology. The issue has saturated
right-wing media, often at the expense of other pertinent issues such as
crime and immigration. Consciousness and opposition to the transsexual
movement has become so fierce that several boycotts against companies
such as Bud Light and Target have been widely covered as displays of GOP energy.

Republican led legislatures across the country have responded to the
genuine controversies related to feeding children hormones and
mutilating their genitals in the name of “gender-affirming care” or exposing minors to “drag queen” sex shows by passing bills banning these practices, but these laws are being systematically overturned by federal
judges across the country without much fanfare.

Some of the judges who have arbitrarily overturned the democratic will
of the people are liberals, as is expected, but thanks to the prominence
of these laws in red states, Republican appointed judicieries have also
been using their power to tip the scales in favor of well-funded gay and transgender activists.

Arkansas was the first state to ban transgender surgeries for persons
under the age of 18 in 2021. The law, Act 626, was initially vetoed by Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson, who was under pressure from big
business interests in his state. His authority was subsequently
overridden by the Arkansas legislature, who voted overwhelmingly to put
the law in place.

Several NGOs immediately challenged this legislation in federal courts,
winning an injunction from Barack Obama appointee James M. Moody. The
state appealed this ruling to the supposedly conservative 8th Circuit
Court, who upheld Moody’s injunction. The 8th Circuits behavior was so surprising that even left-wing commentators expressed shock that the
“most conservative, least diverse” federal appeals court in the country sided with the transgender movement against their own party. Following
this decision, Act 626 has remained blocked and in limbo since October
2022, as Judge Moody repeatedly delays publishing a ruling.

In Tennessee, a different but related scenario developed. The Tennessee legislature passed the Adult Entertainment Act, which prevented “topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, male or female
impersonators in presence of minors,” but this law was widely perceived
as a response to the outbreak of transsexuals and crossdressers
performing sexually suggestive shows for small children.

Federal courts in Tennessee have long established the precedent that
laws strictly regulating the minutiae of heterosexual behavior among
adults inside strip clubs do not violate the First Amendment, but Trump-appointed Judge Thomas Parker ruled that the new law was
unconstitutional because it impedes on the right of crossdressing
homosexuals to perform obscene strip shows for children in public.

Shortly before announcing his run for president, Ron DeSantis signed a
bill banning transgender surgeries for minors. Earlier this month,
another Trump-appointed Judge, Robert Hinkle, not only blocked the
enforcement of the law, but went on to pontificate about how “gender
identity is real” and condemned “bigotry.”

This pattern has been holding throughout the country. Laws trying to
temper any behavior in respects to the transsexual movement, regardless
of how carefully they are worded, are thrown out or suspended as soon as
they are put in front of a judge.

18 GOP controlled states have successfully passed bills seeking to
regulate ethically dubious or obscene transgender behavior, and one by
one they are all being blocked. Conservative judges have been regularly breaking with their state parties and the desires of popular majorities
on the matter, yet they are not facing any political retaliation or
scrutiny in Republican aligned media for it.

The Republican trans crusade is amounting to little more than a
superfluous and likely fleeting political stunt in hopes of generating
interest for 2024. It is not a serious attempt at combating the perverse phenomenon.

<https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2023/06/17/conservative-judges-are-overturning-bans-on-trans-mutilation-and-drag-queen-strip-shows/>

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