The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) Files Brief in the Ohio Supreme Court to Defend Children against Transgender Operations
06 Mayo 2024 - 2:33PM
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
has filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Ohio to defend
children against transgender operations. The AAPS brief supports
the Saving Ohio Adolescents from Experimentation Act and the Save
Women’s Sports Act, enacted in January as H.B. 68 by overriding the
governor’s veto.
Ohio Attorney General David Yost filed an action in the highest
Ohio court to rein in an overly broad injunction against this law,
as issued last month by a county court in Columbus, writes AAPS
general counsel Andrew Schlafly. AAPS sides with the Ohio Attorney
General and with enforcement of this legislation, which continues
to be blocked by the lower court.
“The Ohio Constitution embodies natural law,” AAPS’s brief
observes, and “natural law stands against creating special
transgender rights.” This brief points out that the “strongest
judicial ruling against slavery prior to the Civil War was
expressly based on natural law, and was rendered by the Ohio
Supreme Court.”
“Children cannot provide informed consent for transgender
operations that mutilate them,” Jane Orient, M.D., states as
executive director of AAPS. The brief argues that transgender
operations on children further violate the requirement of medical
ethics to do no harm.
“H.B. 68 embodies the natural law principle of self-defense for
the benefit of children against transgender procedures. H.B. 68 is
analogous to laws against statutory rape, which no one would claim
are unconstitutional,” AAPS’s brief explains.
“Natural law is the basis for many fundamental rights,” Mr.
Schlafly states. “Natural law is justice inherent in all humans and
manifest in notions of equity, the right of self-defense, and the
ban on cruel and unusual punishment.”
The Ohio Constitution and medical ethics “support the
protections of children and female athletes embodied in H.B. 68.
Far from justifying an injunction against this law, the Ohio
Constitution requires upholding it,” the brief concludes.
The Supreme Court of Ohio posts the filings online, in Yost v.
Holbrook (No. 2024-0551).
Founded in 1943, the Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons is a pro-patient association of physicians in the practice
of private medicine. Its motto means “all for the patient.”
Contact: Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110,
janeorientmd@gmail.com or Andrew Schlafly, Esq., (908) 719-8608,
aschlafly@aol.com