Supreme Court Greenlights Tennessee’s Ban On Sex-Change Procedures For Kids; Liberal Justices Express ‘Sadness’
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Two articles published in June by the Daily Caller News Foundation’s investigative reporter Katelynn Richardson detailed the recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Tennessee’s ban on irreversible child gender mutilation surgeries and procedures.
Supreme Court Greenlights Tennessee’s Ban On Sex-Change Procedures For Kids
The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s law banning child sex change procedures on Wednesday. In a 6-3 ruling, the court held that Tennessee’s law does not violate the Equal Protection clause.
“This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound. The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements.”
“Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process,” Roberts continued.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. “[The majority] also authorizes, without second thought, untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them,” Sotomayor wrote. (RELATED: Christians! Western NC Needs Your Help As FEMA Abandons Devastated Communities 7 Months Post-Helene)
Sotomayor wrote that those searching for evidence of transgender discrimination “need look no further than the present,” referencing several policies implemented by the Trump administration. “The Federal Government, for example, has started expelling transgender servicemembers from the military and threatening to withdraw funding from schools and nonprofits that espouse support for transgender individuals,” she wrote.
Tennessee passed its law, which restricts minors from receiving medical treatments intended to help them live as an identity “inconsistent” with their sex, in 2023. The Biden administration challenged the law as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) changed its position on the case in February but urged the Supreme Court to move forward with issuing a ruling.
Trump signed an executive order in January cutting federal funding for child sex changes, where he called the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) “junk science” and banned federal agencies from citing its guidance. The Biden administration relied on WPATH standards in its briefs filed before the court.
Liberal Justice Reveals Her ‘Sadness’ As SCOTUS Saves Kids From Chemical Castrations
Justice Sonia Sotomayor shared her “sadness” Wednesday that children would no longer be able to access experimental and irreversible transgender procedures. The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s law banning child sex change procedures in a 6-3 decision.
“By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims,” Sotomayor wrote. “In sadness, I dissent.” Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, agreed with the Biden administration’s argument that Tennessee’s law violates the Equal Protection Clause.
“By depriving adolescents of hormones and puberty blockers only when such treatment is ‘inconsistent with’ a minor’s sex, the law necessarily deprives minors identified as male at birth of the same treatment it tolerates for an adolescent identified as female at birth (and vice versa),” she wrote. She also drew parallels to the Supreme Court’s decision in Loving v. Virginia, which struck down state laws banning interracial marriage as unconstitutional.
“This Court, famously, rejected the States’ invitation in Loving to ‘defer to the wisdom of the state legislature’ based on assertions that “the scientific evidence is substantially in doubt,” she wrote. “What the Court once recognized as an imperative check against discrimination, it today abandons.”
Those searching for evidence of transgender discrimination “need look no further than the present,” Sotomayor wrote, referencing recent policies implemented by the Trump administration. (DCNF: Union Tied To Anti-ICE Riots Hired Child Molester To Top Local Chapter Role)
“The Federal Government, for example, has started expelling transgender servicemembers from the military and threatening to withdraw funding from schools and nonprofits that espouse support for transgender individuals,” she continued.
A report published by the Trump Department of Human Health and Services (HHS) in May found that the “gender-affirming” model of care lacks scientific support. Yet these medical interventions offered to children “carry risk of significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret,” according to the review.
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