by Mia Hernandez
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) pediatric transgender clinic is no longer offering sex change procedures for minors following the passage of a key Tennessee law banning the practice, parents confirmed to the Nashville Post.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the legislation into law March 3. Parents were sent an email from VUMC confirming the clinic will no longer be serving patients, according to the Nashville Post.
“Your current medication prescription is affected by the laws coming into effect regarding gender affirming care,” according to an email obtained by the Post. “VUMC will not fulfill refill requests for medication prescribed for gender affirming care after June 1, 2023. … All medications dispensed for gender affirming care must have a completion date that is prior to 7/1/23.”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against Tennessee challenging the law in April, leading the Department of Justice to submit a complaint almost a week later to try to prevent it from going into effect.
Tennessee is one of 11 states that has legislation restricting sex change procedures for children.
“Gender-affirming care would remain legal during the course of our challenge if we get a preliminary injunction from the judge blocking enforcement of any part of the law before the 7/1 effective date. Similar laws have been blocked in Alabama and Arkansas while those trials proceed,” ACLU of Tennessee spokesperson, Gillian Branstetter, told the Nashville Post.
The Tennessee law threatens to revoke a doctor’s medical license if they treat minors with sex changes and offers a way for parents to sue if their child receives care without their approval.
“With regard to gender-affirming care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, we continue to fully comply with all federal and state laws and are carefully following the legal proceedings challenging the constitutionality of Tennessee’s new law,” VUMC spokesman, Craig Boerner said in an email, according to the Nashville Post.
VUMC and the Tennessee ACLU chapter did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Mia Hernandez is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Vanderbilt University Medical Center” by Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
There needs to be a vociferous outcry against the inappropriate nomenclature of “gender affirming care”. As noted here in these comments, it needs to be called what it is: genital mutilation. This needs to be spoken verbally by any and all who oppose this horrendous movement to normalize the mutilation.
18 U.S. Code § 116 – Female genital mutilation (FGM)
We have a federal law, which happens to have been originally sponsored by a Colorado Democrat, against the genital mutilation of females. Yet, suddenly we have a large leftist movement to normalize “medical practices” which are as bad, and actually incredibly worse.
FGM is recognized throughout the international community as barbaric, inhumane, and a violation of women’s rights.
Where is the outrage across all political spectrums?
Why would Frankenstein University Medical Center stop such miraculous cures for gender dysphoria? Maybe they could use that talent and start a tattoo parlor?
It is absolutely MIND BENDING that medical personnel, who took a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm, would even consider chemically and surgically mutilating children! And they would still be doing it in Tennessee if not for the “alternative” media and a conservative majority state legislature. These people will be looking up at hell!
Those physicians who performed these sex change will lose their license should they continue mutilating children. They should be criminally prosecuted for the damage they have already inflicted on the youth. The time will come when the victims, the minors mutilated, will seek damages against these Mengele like physicians.