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Florida\u2019s lawsuit against a medical association pushing child sex change procedures is stalled after a federal judge declared the case to be \u201cweak\u201d \u2014 from nearly 1,000 miles away.<\/p>

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The ruling has sparked a legal battle over whether federal judges in blue states can constrain red states from enforcing conservative policies. This week, a Clinton-appointed federal judge in Illinois blocked Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier from prosecuting the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for allegedly deceiving parents and children about sex-change procedures on minors.<\/p>

Uthmeier and other state attorneys general say the ruling could have grave implications about overreach of the federal judiciary.<\/p>

Uthmeier , the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the Endocrine Society in December under a false claims law. The AG accused AAP of false advertising because it promoted sex-change procedures on minors as safe and reversible, without sufficient scientific evidence.<\/p>

WPATH is an association of doctors and medical experts that publishes standards of care for transgender surgeries.\u00a0The AAP helped convince WPATH to removing age minimum requirements\u00a0irreversible sex-change procedures in WPATH\u2019s most recent Standards of Care (SOC-8) guidelines in 2022, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported.<\/p>

AAP, WPATH and Uthmeier\u2019s office did not respond to the DCNF\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>

AAP filed a lawsuit in March against Uthmeier at a federal court in Chicago, and so far the generally left-leaning court has ruled against Florida. WPATH and the Endocrine Society are not a part of the federal cases. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s How A Small Band Of Pediatricians Pushed Medical Org Into Nixing Age Minimums For Sex Changes)<\/strong><\/p>

District Judge Matthew Kennelly ruled June 2 that Uthmeier\u2019s lawsuit in Florida cannot continue. Kennelly issued a restraining Tuesday that barred Uthmeier from continuing the Florida case against AAP.<\/p>

\u201cAnd although state attorneys general are entitled to have enforcement priorities, the weakness of the state complaint suggests that Uthmeier is retaliating against AAP without a reasonable expectation of success,\u201d Kennelly wrote.<\/p>

Kennelly\u2019s goes into great detail about the facts of Uthmeier\u2019s lawsuit in Florida courts. He assessed the complaint and found Uthmeier\u2019s arguments were weak and at times misrepresented AAP\u2019s and WPATH\u2019s statements on sex-change procedures. Kennelly determined that Uthmeier\u2019s lawsuit was \u201cundertaken in bad faith and without a reasonable expectation of success.\u201d<\/p>

Uthmeier appealed to the Seventh Court of Appeals, which on Wednesday\u00a0 Uthmeier\u2019s request for an immediate administrative stay on the restraining order. Indiana and 21 other states filed an amicus brief supporting\u00a0Uthmeier\u2019s appeal in the Seventh Circuit.<\/p>

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Screenshot of Florida AG Uthmeier\u2019s lawsuit against AAP, WPATH and the Endocrine Society (Florida AG\u2019s office\/Court Documents)<\/p><\/div>

The red state AG\u2019s said in their that federal jurisdiction \u201cwould soon swallow state authority if a federal court could seize control of a state court action merely because it might make a different decision than a state court.\u201d (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Parents Urge Congress To Investigate Pediatricians Pushing Transgenderism On Minors)<\/strong><\/p>

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\u201cNo Florida court has yet ruled that the Attorney General\u2019s claims are utterly without merit under Florida law, and it very well may turn out that the Attorney General will win his lawsuit in state court. But the district court did not even attempt to discern how Florida courts would apply their law (as one would expect a federal court to do in any case about state law). It did not cite a single Florida decision. Rather, this Illinois-based district court considered one factor only\u2014its own view of what makes for a \u2018weak\u2019 claim,\u201d the amicus brief says.<\/p>

Kennelly\u2019s ruling was an unprecedented action from the federal judiciary, Uthmeier\u2019s office wrote in its emergency appeal to the seventh circuit Tuesday.<\/p>

\u201cThat injunction is historic, for all the wrong reasons,\u201d Florida\u2019s motion says. \u201cSo far as Appellant Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier can tell, no federal court has ever enjoined an enforcement action pending in another State in this context, let alone an enforcement action filed by another State\u2019s chief legal officer.\u201d<\/p>

Blocking the state\u00a0case means Florida \u201cwould suffer the sovereign harm of being told by a faraway federal judge that it cannot pursue a civil enforcement action brought under Florida state law in Florida state court, and its consumers would continue to suffer the consequences of AAP\u2019s illegal conduct,\u201d Uthmeier\u2019s filing states. \u201cIf the injunction is stayed, AAP will merely continue asserting its First Amendment defense in state court, which is not an irreparable injury.\u201d<\/p>

Judge Kennelly on June 2 argued Uthmeier\u2019s claims that the jurisdiction was improper because \u201ca federal court may enjoin a state proceeding that is brought in bad faith or to harass.\u201d<\/p>

AAP argued that Uthmeier\u2019s emergency appeal was meritless and \u201cwould allow Uthmeier to resume the retaliatory and unconstitutional enforcement action in Florida state court that the district court determined is causing irreparable harm to AAP while this Court considers the stay motion.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cThat is not a temporary \u2018pause\u2019 to maintain the status quo\u2014it is the ultimate relief the Attorney General seeks on appeal,\u201d AAP wrote in a court filing on Tuesday.<\/p>

AAP has defended its statements on free speech grounds and contend that Uthmeier\u2019s claims about false advertising are moot because the association does not profit directly from sex-change procedures.<\/p>

Kennelly admitted in his ruling that \u201csome portions [of AAP\u2019s guidelines] do seem to approve of and promote gender-affirming care, but they do so in a way that resembles standard scientific and medical advocacy, not a money-making scheme,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>

The AAP has\u00a0faced criticism\u00a0for its guidelines on sex-change procedures for minors. The UK\u2019s 2024\u00a0\u00a0found that documents including AAP\u2019s policy guidelines on gender procedures for minors, WPATH\u2019s SOC-8 and the Endocrine Society\u2019s guidelines did not meet accepted criteria for clinical practice.<\/p>

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