Radiologist takes fight over free speech, mutilation of children to appeals court
A radiologist who voiced, to state lawmakers, his personal objections to the damage inflicted on children, including bodily mutilations, by transgender “treatments,” and was dismissed from a state board over his beliefs, is taking his fight over free speech to an appeals court.
“The record in this case is clear: [Wyoming] Governor Gordon fired Dr. [Eric] Cubin from the Wyoming Board of Medicine because he spoke out on legislation,” explained said Jacob Huebert, of the Liberty Justice Center. “There was no valid justification for the governor’s retaliation. It violated Dr. Cubin’s First Amendment rights, so we’re asking the court to order the Governor to restore Dr. Cubin to his position.”
The fight now is pending before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in the leftist enclave of Denver.
The legal team explained the case is about Cubin’s 2024 email to members of the Wyoming House of Representatives, written in his personal capacity.
He endorsed Senate File 99, “Chloe’s Law,” which prohibits gender reassignment surgeries and hormone therapy for minors. It was easily adopted by the legislature and even signed by Gordon.
“However, just one month later after signing the bill, Gov. Gordon terminated Dr. Cubin from the Wyoming Board of Medicine, explicitly citing his email to the legislature as the reason,” the lawyers explained.
He had been appointed in 2023 to the board that oversees medical regulation, compliance and discipline in the state.
Cubin’s letter had expressed his personal endorsement of the law and he criticized the Wyoming Medical Society for opposing the bill “without adequately representing the views of its members,” the report said.
Even so, Gordon forced Cubin’s resignation of the board, insisting that it “created the ‘appearance of bias'” and could give the impression that he was speaking on the board’s behalf.
Liberty Justice Center sued on Cubin’s behalf and now has moved the case to the 10th Circuit, following a rejection of the case by a federal court in Wyoming.
Many medical organizations, up to and including the American Medical Association, have supported the ideology that involves giving chemicals to patients who have gender dysphoria, even doing mutilating surgeries on healthy body parts, because of their mental condition.