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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti says he “absolutely” will sue President Joe Biden’s administration if the Department of Health and Human Services finalizes a rule imposing gender ideology on foster parents. “I’ll absolutely sue here if they go forward with this rule‚” Skrmetti‚ a Republican‚ told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. “Absolutely. We are not shy about suing to stop federal overreach.” HHS’ Administration for Children and Families proposed a new rule Sept. 28 on “Safe and Appropriate Foster Care Placement Requirements” and allowed Americans to submit public comments by Nov. 27. Skrmetti submitted a comment‚ and 16 other state attorneys general signed on to it. The HHS rule applies the idea that any lack of “affirmation” of a child’s self-declared gender identity constitutes a form of child abuse in foster care placements. Before agencies place a child with a foster parent‚ known as a “provider‚” that person must “establish an environment free of hostility‚ mistreatment‚ or abuse based on the child’s LGBTQI+ status;” receive training “to be prepared with the appropriate knowledge and skills to provide for the needs of the child related to the child’s self-identified sexual orientation‚ gender identity‚ and gender expression;” and must be able to “facilitate the child’s access to age-appropriate resources‚ services‚ and activities that support their health and well-being.” The rule requires foster care providers to grant children access to LGBTQ reading materials‚ opportunities to socialize with “LGBTQI+ peers‚” an ability to dress according to “self-declared gender identity and expression‚” and access to transgender medical interventions such as hormone therapy and surgeries. As attorney general of Tennessee‚ Skrmetti flagged numerous problems with the rule in his interview with The Daily Signal. “Any failure to affirm gender identity should be treated with the same alacrity as allegations of physical abuse‚” Skrmetti said‚ explaining the rule. “The natural outcome of that is you’re diverting resources and the state’s not going to be in a position to provide as much of a response to actual physical abuse. It’s steering the state away from protecting kids.” Skrmetti’s written comment outlines three major legal difficulties with the rule. He argues that the rule exceeds HHS’ legal authority as established by Congress‚ trampling on states’ broad authority in family law. He also argues that the rule is “arbitrary and capricious” in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act. Finally‚ he notes various constitutional problems with the rule‚ such as violating the First Amendment’s free speech and free exercise clauses. “A lot of people who participate in foster care do so because it’s a way of living out their faith‚” Skrmetti told The Daily Signal. By asking people to “adopt the language and affirm the commitments of gender ideology‚ the federal government’s asking them to turn away from their religious beliefs‚” he said. Skrmetti’s formal comment on the rule notes that Tennessee contracts with or maintains relationships with faith-based agencies that serve over 400 foster children in the state. “The commitments that people need to make in terms of pronouns‚ in terms of acknowledging that this is an ontological change and that people are their subjective belief and that there’s no objective grounding‚ is inconsistent with the idea of—in the Christian tradition—biblical creation‚” the state’s attorney general noted. Skrmetti’s public comment lays out a road map for a potential lawsuit challenging the rule‚ a lawsuit that the attorney general told The Daily Signal he would “absolutely” file should HHS finalize it. “Family law has always been a state issue‚” he said. “The states have developed a rich body of family law dealing with issues like foster care. This is a really heavy-handed intrusion by the federal government in pursuit of a political end but at the expense of kids. So constitutionally‚ there’s a structural problem with a federal agency making law in an area where the states should be making the law‚ and where the states have been making the law.” The attorney general also noted that Tennessee‚ among other states‚ has banned experimental medical interventions that transgender activists refer to as “gender-affirming care.” The Tennessee Legislature‚ he said‚ “considered the potential risks and the potential benefits‚ and—as a number of European countries have done—they determined that the risks of allowing kids to have access to these treatments‚ even puberty blockers‚ create the potential for long-term‚ lifelong negative effects‚ and the evidence just isn’t there to support the medical benefit of making these treatments broadly available.” Skrmetti noted that many who formerly identified as transgender now desist from that identity‚ becoming “detransitioners.” Although pro-transgender activist groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s ban of such treatments for minors‚ the attorney general noted that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld the law. “The Constitution doesn’t require an experimental medical exception‚” Skrmetti quipped. TN-Foster-Care-Rule-Comment-As-Filed-VersionDownload Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com ‚ and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post ‘ABSOLUTELY’: Tennessee AG Promises Legal Action If Biden Admin Finalizes Transgender Foster Care Rule appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Some media outlets have come under fire in recent years for buying into activists’ framing and talking points on so-called gender-affirming care‚ attempted transgender sex-change operations‚ hormonal interventions‚ and social affirmations‚ even for minors. Emails obtained by the organization Do No Harm‚ which combats gender ideology in the medical profession‚ provide a look at how that type of story is crafted. The organization obtained a June 15 exchange between Capital Times reporter Erin McGroarty‚ who specializes in “investigating disinformation” for the newspaper in Madison‚ Wisconsin‚ and Sara Benzel‚ media manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Health‚ a medical organization that offers “gender-affirming care” for children. McGroarty‚ who did not personally respond to requests for comment‚ asked for information to “counter” the messaging put out by the pro-family organization Wisconsin Family Action. That messaging highlighted the dangers of administering cross-sex hormones to young people and condemned a Dane County‚ Wisconsin‚ resolution to declare itself a “sanctuary county” for individuals who identify as transgender. In the June 15 press release‚ Wisconsin Family Action referenced the possibility that minors may be sterilized through the use of cross-sex hormones. (For example‚ a young woman injecting herself with testosterone in attempts to become a boy might find herself unable to have children later in life.) That is acknowledged by the very medical institutions that offer “gender-affirming care” for children. For example‚ as The Daily Wire reported‚ Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)’s parent or guardian consent form states‚ “If your child starts puberty blockers in the earliest stages of puberty‚ and then goes on to gender-affirming hormones‚ they will not develop sperm or eggs. This means that they will not be able to have biological children.” ‘What I’m Hoping to Get From You’ “We spoke a while back when I was working on a story for Our Lives magazine on the UW Health gender services clinic‚” McGroarty wrote in her email to UW Health. “I’m working for Cap Times now as a disinformation reporter. I’m helping our local government reporter‚ Ali Garfield‚ on a story she’s writing about the county ordinance to make Dane County a sanctuary county for trans and nonbinary people.” McGroarty then reveals why she is reaching out: She wants UW Health to condemn Wisconsin Family Action and to confirm her claim that children are not getting surgeries: “Wisconsin Family Action has put out a statement full of false claims about the types of procedures that are being performed on trans and nonbinary youth. What I’m hoping to get from you is just a brief statement clarifying that no‚ in fact‚ minors are not getting genital surgery and only in extremely rare cases are older adolescents getting top surgery and only after extensive psychiatric screening and parental consent.” McGroarty explicitly admits that she wants to “counter” Wisconsin Family Action’s messaging ahead of a local meeting that evening: “Their claims are that children are getting genital and top surgery and sterilizations‚ all of which we know is false. Just a brief statement clarifying what is allowed for minors and the parameters within that‚ and what isn’t performed would be great for us to be able to include to counter whatever I’m sure they will claim when they testify at the meeting tonight.” Removing Breasts of Up to 10 Girls Yearly UW Health gave McGroarty a statement‚ Do No Harm’s Freedom of Information Act request found. That statement actually reveals that UW Health does indeed perform “top surgeries‚” or mastectomies‚ on minors (five to 10 per year‚ to be exact). “In December 2022‚ of the approximately 315 patients at UW Health’s pediatric and adolescenttransgender health (PATH) clinic‚ about 40% are on puberty blockers or hormones‚” Benzel said in a June 15 statement to McGroarty. The statement denies that UW Health performs “bottom surgeries” (such as the removal of a biological boy’s genitalia or creating fake genitalia on a biological girl) or “breast augmentation” surgeries on children before admitting that it does remove the healthy breasts of young women: UW Health does not perform and has never performed bottom surgery or breast augmentation surgery on minors. Top surgery (mastectomy) for patients under age 18 is rare and considered only after multidisciplinary evaluation‚ long-term engagement in mental health care and a requisite letter from their primary therapist‚ duration of hormonal therapy if indicated‚ and consent from legal guardian(s). Approximately five to 10 older teenage patients under the age of 18 receive top surgery at UW Health per year. Surprisingly‚ McGroarty doesn’t address or ask about the five to 10 young girls getting their breasts removed every year. She instead thanks Benzel for her help and tells her: “I’ll connect with you again on Monday about the longer story I’m considering writing regarding larger trends in disinformation surrounding gender-affirming care.” And when Benzel asks McGroarty to add the following to her statement‚ “We support efforts that protect and advance the health of trans and gender nonbinary youth and enable us to provide needed care to our patients‚” McGroarty replies‚ “Will do!” The Published Story On June 16‚ the Capital Times published a story on the topic with the headline‚ “Dane County becomes transgender ‘sanctuary’ despite opposition.” The article was written by a different reporter‚ Allison Garfield‚ but it included parts of the statement that McGroarty obtained from UW Health. The article did not‚ however‚ include some key details. Garfield did not mention that UW Health is removing the healthy breasts of five to 10 young women every year. She did‚ however‚ emphasize that UW Health does not perform “bottom surgeries” on minors‚ a claim that Wisconsin Family Action does not appear to have made. Garfield also swung at Wisconsin Family Action‚ accusing the organization of making “false claims” that children are undergoing procedures “resulting in sterilization”—a claim commonly expressed by groups advocating for the protection of children from dangerous hormonal treatment. Benzel‚ who did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Signal‚ similarly did not address the possibility that hormone treatment can result in sterilization in her statements to the Capital Times. In a statement to The Daily Signal on behalf of the Capital Times and its reporters‚ Capital Times editor Mark Treinan wrote that the publication was responding to Wisconsin Family Action’s assertions that “children are undergoing medical procedures that ‘result in sterilization.'” Like his reporters‚ Treinan seemed to misunderstand or ignore that putting children on hormones may result in their sterilization. Instead‚ he focused on “bottom surgeries.” He did not return further requests for comment on that point. “Doctors in Dane County‚ and across the country‚ say they act in accordance with medical standards that do not condone the performance of bottom surgeries (phalloplasties or vaginoplasties) that [Wisconsin Family Action] was claiming are being performed‚” Treinan said. “As a news organization that seeks to provide accurate and factual information to our community‚ we believe our journalists have a responsibility to counter false information that is presented as fact.” But Julaine Appling‚ president of Wisconsin Family Action‚ emphasized to The Daily Signal that her organization has drawn attention to the dangers of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for years. “It’s unfortunate that local liberal media choose to often misrepresent our statements on this very sensitive issue of how minors are being counseled and advised relative to gender confusion‚” Appling said. “That a ‘disinformation reporter’ has done this is especially disturbing.” Mary Margaret Olohan is a senior reporter for The Daily Signal and a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com‚ and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state.  The post EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a Look at How Reporters Push Transgender Ideology appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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