Florida Governor Ron DeSantis blasted activist judges who repeatedly overturn Florida laws they disagree with, only to have their decisions consistently reversed by higher courts.
The governor’s scathing remarks came on Wednesday in response to left-wing federal Judge Robert Hinkle in Tallahassee striking down Florida’s recently enacted law designed to safeguard minors from harmful transgender procedures and treatments. Hinkle is notorious for routinely striking down bills that DeSantis signs into law.
DeSantis slammed these judicial activists for imposing their own political agenda, disregarding the will of the people and their elected representatives. He vowed to continue fighting to defend Florida’s laws and protect children from irreversible gender-altering interventions, the Daily Wire reports.
“It is wrong to perform a sex change on a 16-year-old, you’re not allowed to get a tattoo, but somehow you can have your privates cut off? Give me a break,” DeSantis said.
“This is wrong. And I would also say, this has already been decided by the 11th circuit court of appeals, they upheld Alabama’s law, which was almost identical to Florida’s law, this will be reversed. There’s no question it’ll be reversed.”
“Think about it, when the founding fathers were creating the Constitution, and when the first Congress passed the Bill of Rights or even when they passed the Reconstruction Amendments in the 1860s, do you think a single person involved in that thought that there was a constitutional right to do this genital mutilation? It’s ridiculous,” he stated.
“Of course, a state can protect children against this. And we have very powerful testimony how this is irreversible,” DeSantis continued.
The governor added that that leftist judges “veto the policy of the state of Florida” constantly and “we lose almost every time and then we win on appeal almost every time. That’s what happens.”
“So if you’re not willing to defend Florida’s duly enacted statutes against liberal jurisprudence, then you’re basically saying the people of Florida shouldn’t govern themselves,” he said. “And that we should just turn over our destiny to some trial judge somewhere. That I refuse to do, we are going to stand up for duly enacted statutes, we’re going to stand up for protecting the innocence of these kids,” he said, adding, “But I would say it goes beyond that. Because what this is doing, when they’re doing a sex change on a teenager, there’s a lot of people that want to make money off that, consequences be damned, they’re lying in their pockets and they could care less about what’s going to happen to that teenager when they become 25 — which many regret and have big time problems as a result of that.”
“But it’s also just a fact of, you use the term ‘gender-affirming care’, which is what media uses and what the left uses,” he continued. “You’re not affirming that, you’re trying to change their basic biology, which you cannot do. You cannot do that. You know, how you’re born is what you are. And so I think it’s about are we going to be rooted in truth as a society or not? And if we’re rooted in truth, then you would say, of course, you can’t do the surgeries, because it’s not going to take and transform somebody that’s a male into a female. So we’ll win that appeal.”
DeSantis’ remarks come after a Tuesday ruling where Hinkle struck down substantial parts of Florida’s ban on so-called gender-affirming care that sees the mutilation of children.
Hinkle claimed that “gender identity is real” and that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are part of a “widely accepted standard of care.”
Following the court’s decision, DeSantis’ administration has declared its plan to challenge the ruling through an appeal process.
In a statement released by Julia Friedland, the deputy press secretary for the governor, the office conveyed its dissent regarding the court’s conclusions on the legislation, evidence, and scientific aspects related to the matter at hand.
“As we’ve seen here in Florida, the United Kingdom, and across Europe, there is no quality evidence to support the chemical and physical mutilation of children. These procedures do permanent, life-altering damage to children, and history will look back on this fad in horror,” Friedland stated.
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