"The Ban Lawsuits" - News and Legal Analysis
All the posts about pediatric gender medicine by the author of Bad Facts
Last updated Dec. 6, 2024
This is an index of all the essays and X threads by Glenna Goldis about legal challenges to pediatric gender medicine (PGM) in the US.
General Background
Chase Strangio’s Legal Narrative
The trickery at the heart of the ACLU’s legal strategy
Can Science Take Down Gender Doctors?
The role of evidence-based medicine in litigation
The Vanishing Legal Case for Pediatric Gender Medicine (6/30/24)
The giant corporate law firms that partner with trans rights advocates in most of these lawsuits
Idaho Comes for the American Academy of Pediatrics
States are investigating the AAP over its pro-PGM “Policy Statement”
The “Transgender Child” Is Born
How Americans got the idea to socially transition their young children
The Trans Teen Illusion (Part 1, Part 2)
Adults have been failing “trans” teens since the 1960s
Alabama
Lawyers for “Trans Kids” Face Sanctions in Alabama (March 2024)
ACLU Cover Up in Alabama? (June 2024)
Arkansas
The Trial (published as “The Brandt Files”)
#1: Don’t Say Gay at the LGBTQ Rights Trial
Gayness
Gender nonconformity
Dan Karasic (psychiatrist)
WPATH guidelines
ROGD
#4: Side Effects? Haven’t Seen ‘Em
Deanna Adkins (endocrinologist)
Side effects, risks, and complications
#5: Mom and Dad Ace Obedience School
The pressures that parents face
Suicide myth
#6: A Race-Baiter Takes the Stand
Jack Turban (psychiatrist)
Expert witness law
#7: Our Heroes Scale the Hierarchy of Oppression
Equal protection law
Defining trans
#8: Why not make a logical argument?
Gender dysphoria
Disability law
Past trans litigation
#9: The ACLU’s Deal with the Doctors
Past trans litigation
ACLU lawyers
#10: How Judge James M. Moody, Jr., Disposed of Arkansas
Stephen Levine (psychiatrist)
Religion
Media coverage
Paul Hruz (endocrinologist)
Passing
The mythical biological basis of gender identity
The Appeal
Arkansas Doesn’t Contest the “Facts”
Oral argument at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
We’re now waiting for the decision
Florida
“Unrestrained Puberty”: Notes on the Florida Loss
The ban is back in effect — for now. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the trial court’s ruling. We’re now waiting for oral argument in that court.
Missouri
In Nov. 2024, a state court upheld Missouri’s ban after trial. It’s headed to appeals now. (No writing on this decision.)
Ohio
The good guys' first trial win (X thread)
Tennessee
This one’s before the US Supreme Court. It’s called US v. Skrmetti. A decision is expected in June 2025, possibly earlier.
Biden administration’s brief (X thread)
Historians’ amicus brief (X thread)
Healthcare lobbyists’ amicus brief (X thread)
Even more amicus briefs (X thread)
I experience lifelong neuro-metabolic problems. Treated as "mentally ill" is was given psychiatric drugs in childhood and early teens. These exacerbated the symptomatology. My life has been dysfunctional. Among other things, I wasn't allowed to finish high school.
"Pediatric gender medicine" is simply an extension of the practice of victimizing children and adolescents.