Executive orders issued by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) ostensibly paved the way to abolish parents’ rights in the name of transgenderism and to have taxpayers foot the bill for genital mutilation surgeries.
Since 2017, health insurance plans for state employees have been prohibited from covering any of the chemical and surgical procedures alphabet activists have dubbed “medically necessary gender-affirming care.” Through executive fiat, on Tuesday, the ethically compromised Hobbs, who certified her own election as governor in her prior capacity as secretary of state, voided that ban and then some.
In the first of two orders signed, the governor ruled by consent of the expert class over consent of the governed, claiming “all major medical, psychological, and psychiatric provider groups” agreed that vaguely determined “medically necessary” procedures should be available through the state healthcare plan.
“The Department of Administration shall remove the Exclusion from the State’s healthcare plan as soon as practicable and in compliance with State law,” the order read as Hobbs’ press release declared, “Our LGBTQ+ community should never have to face hate and discrimination, and I will do everything in my power to fight for full equality.”
Today, I signed two Executive Orders restoring rights and protecting LGBTQ+ Arizonans. I’m proud the State is leading by example on this issue, and we will continue working until Arizona is a place where every individual can participate equally in our economy and our workforce… pic.twitter.com/q9CuemjV2F
— Governor Katie Hobbs (@GovernorHobbs) June 28, 2023
“The State is leading by example on this issue, and we will continue working until Arizona is a place where every individual can participate equally in our economy and our workforce without fear of discrimination or exclusion,” the release added.
However, the suggestion that there would be no discrimination seemed far-fetched as her second order instructed all government agencies within Arizona to crack down on services linked to “conversion therapy.”
“To the greatest extent permissible under law, State Agencies shall not use State or federal resources to promote, support, or enable any practice or treatment on minors known to be a form of ‘conversion therapy,’ including authorizing funds to reimburse for medical or mental healthcare known to be in connection with the practice of ‘conversion therapy’ on minors,” the order decreed.
It also demanded, “State Agencies shall develop and implement policies, as necessary and consistent with State and federal law, to protect LGBTQ+ minors from harmful medical and mental healthcare services related to ‘conversion therapy.'”
Much like the seemingly innocuous but demonstrably perverse procedures like phalloplasty and vaginoplasty that fall under the umbrella term “gender-affirming care,” the “conversion therapy” potentially covered a spectrum from brutal shock therapy to speaking with a pastor about thoughts of gender dysphoria.
According to a brief from the American Medical Association, it was described as “any form of intervention, such as individual or group, behavioral, cognitive, or milieu/environmental operations, that attempts to change an individual’s sexual orientation or sexual behaviors…or an individual’s gender identity.”
Hobbs’ order described it as “any practice or treatment that seeks or purports to change an individual’s non-heteronormative sexual orientation or non-cisgender identity, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expression, under the false premise that homosexuality and gender-diverse identities are pathological.”
She specifically added, “This does not include gender-affirming care.”
Instead of helping struggling AZ families plagued by inflation, the governor just issued an order for taxpayers to cover the cost of elective, sex reassignment surgeries. This illegal, out of touch, unprecedented over reach did not receive proper JLBC review as required by law.
— Warren Petersen (@votewarren) June 28, 2023
Can we sue Hobbs for this as its against our religious beliefs and I refuse to have my tax dollars used for this!
— Melinda Hamilton (@masocal37) June 28, 2023
Enough with the LGBTQ Left Democrats. “Our kids are not fodder for the government.” GOD is the designer of the Human Body. Just maybe you are out of your lane.
— Ray Easterday (@RayEasterday) June 28, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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