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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - - The ACLU announced on Tuesday it has submitted a claim against the state of Ohio to stop a law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors before it takes effect next month.
The organization is challenging an arrangement in House Bill 68 that prohibits Ohio's kids's medical facilities from offering treatment like gender-reassignment surgical treatment and hormonal agent therapy to trans minors, according to the complaint filed in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas. The ACLU filed the fit on behalf of 2 families whose children are at risk of losing access to their health care.
" These personal, private medical choices should remain in between families and medical professionals; they do not belong to political leaders," stated Freda Levenson, Legal Director at the ACLU of Ohio. "We will combat in court to ensure that trans youth and their moms and dads can access critically important, lifesaving health care without government intrusion."
The grievance is asking the court to strike down H.B. 68 before the law works on April 24. The ACLU likewise said the legislation violates four sections of the Ohio Constitution including the single-subject rule, the Health Care provision, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Due Course of Law provision, the ACLU argues.
The legal challenge comes after the Statehouse voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of the legislation. DeWine decided to decline the bill after checking out numerous kids's healthcare facilities, arguing "moms and dads need to make these decisions and not the government."
Rep. Gary Click (R-Vickery), the main sponsor of H.B. 68, called gender-affirming care an "experiment" and has long argued "children are incapable of providing the notified permission needed to make those life-altering and very dangerous choices."
Click stated on Tuesday the complaint is "not surprising" and "par for the course," and argued H.B. 68 was composed "to be bullet proof when it pertained to claims." Click said he has the "utmost self-confidence in our chief law officer who is capable of defending such commonsense legislation."
While Click kept in mind the suit being filed in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas is "not the most concept location" for those in favor of H.B. 68, but he stated "there's an appeals process and I prepare for that eventually it will make its way to the Supreme Court and it will be heard there and in the end, the law is on our side."
" It is going to be an unimportant suit since there is not constitutional right to decontaminate children or to harm or to mutilate them," stated Click. "I think that science and the law is on our side and we will prevail."
Gender-affirming care is backed by every major medical association in the nation, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Psychological Association. To override medical agreement is "federal government overreach," the ACLU said and promised it will "restore Ohio families' right to make personal medical choices with doctor - - not political leaders."
"Families are now challenged with the exceptionally difficult decision of running away the state they call home to secure their children or allowing them to go without the care they and their physicians understand is right for them," said Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice at the ACLU.
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