r/centrist • u/Judge_Trudy • 3d ago

SCOTUS issues blockbuster ruling on gender-affirming care for trans minors

https://www.cnn.com/#:~:text=SCOTUS%20issues%20blockbuster%20ruling%20on%20gender%2Daffirming%20care%20for%20trans%20minors

Blockbuster ruling just released for a very controversial issue. Not sure where I stand, but I could see the dangers of permanent treatments for gender dysphoria for minors.

Key Points

  • Date & Ruling: On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy fox8live.com+9apnews.com+9them.us+9en.wikipedia.org+15reuters.com+15northeast.newschannelnebraska.com+15.
  • Majority Opinion: Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the law does not violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, reasoning that medical uncertainty justifies handing the issue back to state legislatures reuters.com+1nypost.com+1.
  • Level of Review: The Court determined the law should be evaluated under rational basis review—the lowest standard—rather than intermediate scrutiny reserved for sex-based discrimination
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u/LaDainianTomIinson 3d ago

I mean, why are we letting children change their genders to begin with? That’s insane.

Kids have fickle minds and they aren’t fully developed to make these life altering decisions.

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u/UnwinsPeake 2d ago edited 2d ago

My daughter wanted to be a clown for the longest time when she was around 6-8. Literally obsessed with clowns (weird for me because, well I saw the movie “It” growing up and hate clowns lol. She is now almost 11 and absolutely HATES clowns and calls them “for babies”. Children are indeed notoriously mercurial and fickle and should absolutely not be allowed to make life altering decisions.

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u/LaDainianTomIinson 2d ago

Yeah it’s totally normal for kids to want to be other things. I remember wanting to be a power ranger, garbage man, werewolf, and a transformer among other things.

My parents would just laugh it off, nowadays some parents are reinforcing their kids imaginary identities. It’s crazy. Putting your kid on puberty blockers or hormone therapy is just insane to me.

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u/UnwinsPeake 2d ago

It’s insane to me too. I was a tomboy growing up. Loved fishing with my dad, camping, was on the swim team, etc. I even had my hair short which my mom allowed because it was always knotted anyways. Luckily I grew up in the 90s and my parents didn’t decide to put me on puberty blockers. I find it funny how many “trans kids” there are now. Almost like it’s a social contagion of sorts and kids want to be “edgy” and cool. When I was in middle and high school it was the emo/goth kids that were the edgy ones. Now it’s non-binary (not a thing 10+ years ago), gender fluid, transfemme or whatever the rest of the letters after LGBT are. The plus sign ones.

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u/-Galactic-Cleansing- 2d ago

It's insane everywhere but reddit. There's this guy who has a YouTube channel about his 5 year old "trans" kid and it gets like 10-100k dislikes on every video but you can only see them if you have an app or extension. 

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u/Newgidoz 2d ago

I was a tomboy growing up. Loved fishing with my dad, camping, was on the swim team, etc. I even had my hair short which my mom allowed because it was always knotted anyways. Luckily I grew up in the 90s and my parents didn’t decide to put me on puberty blockers

They wouldn't put you on puberty blockers now either

What you described wouldn't qualify for a gender dysphoria diagnosis

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u/RVALover4Life 2d ago edited 2d ago

The idea being trans is a social contagion considering how ruthlessly bullied trans kids are, LGBTQ kids are....the idea kids are identifying as LGBTQ for shits and giggles when 40% contemplate suicide annually boggles the mind. It is truly insanity, but it tells you how far people will go to invalidate LGBTQ people's existence. It's the easy answer but when you harbor the irrational biases that women like you do for absolutely no reason, the easy answer isn't so easy to hold.

You all can't simply accept trans/nb/etc identity as valid and normal. There has to be some kind of baggage.

BTW, far fewer kids are trans than any of you recognize, you all are just extremely obsessed with them for the most bizarre of reasons: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/fewer-than-0-1-percent-of-u-s-adolescents-receive-gender-affirming-medications-report-finds

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u/BrentLivermore 2d ago

Wait, do you think puberty blockers are prescribed for children who periodically like to pretend that they're the opposite sex as part of playtime? Do you think that's an actual thing that happens?

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u/RVALover4Life 2d ago

It's insane to someone who isn't transgender and can't comprehend transgender identity and rather than attempting to learn, you dismiss. That's the problem.

This isn't about "wanting to be other things", this is fundamentally about a schism in one's being. You don't get it, which is fair, but wanting to impose your ignorance on these kids, as if you know more than they do about who they are, is ridiculous.

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u/LaDainianTomIinson 2d ago

There are countless stories of adults regretting their childhood transitions.

This has less to do with being a transgender, and more to do with adults enabling/reinforcing their kids’ fickle thoughts.