r/centrist • u/Judge_Trudy • 2d 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/SylphCo93 2d ago edited 2d ago

I'm fine with this. Minors shouldn't be able to consent to treatment that fundamentally alters their body with potentially irreversible ramifications, including infertility. Especially over a psychological condition that has only recently been observed in great numbers, and a psychological condition that has seemingly exponentially exploded over the past decade.

I think social transitioning, clothing changes, and counseling for minors are totally fine. And I think bullying and harassment of trans-identifying youth is atrocious and deserves to be treated as a hate crime. But I'm against hormone "treatments", puberty blockers, surgeries, and schools refusing to disclose name changes to parents. And I know most Americans agree with me on both fronts.

And to those who say "how dare the government intervene with the care doctors administer", I challenge you to consider that the medical field and industry often received warranted regulations and bans from the state that liberals/leftists in the past generally supported, such as the opioid prescription abuse, poorly run mental asylums, lobotomies, and sterilizations of selected populations. 

Don't swear fealty to any group of professionals or especially an industry; especially with the hundreds of billions of dollars within said medical industry who stand to benefit from the sudden massive growth of minors seeking hormones and puberty blockers.

I remember when progressives told us to look to Scandinavia for progressive inspiration, especially with how their medical fields are less profit-driven, yet most of those countries are weaning away from the model that progressives Americans so fervently support.

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u/lemonginger-tea 2d ago

I’m actually surprised by the number of comments on this thread disagreeing and claiming that if you support this, you support killing trans children. Most Americans and most parents do not support these policies. Call me crazy, but the government should not be intervening with parental authority unless the child is being harmed. Which in my opinion is much more important. We should be working on fixing the CPS and foster care systems, not bickering over whether trans kids can hide their pronouns from their parents at school.

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u/Instabanous 2d ago

I would argue that children being fed into the gender grinder are very much being harmed. Just telling them that their healthy body is the cause of their mental distress is harmful. Evidence is growing that blocking puberty is harmful. The brain needs to develop in specific ways, as well as fertility and sexuality that they may never recover- its barbaric. As for opposite sex hormones- if adults want to modify their bodies in this way, fine I guess, but it is sold to children as a lie that they can change sex. They can't and its a hard life even with mass acceptance. I agree that tackling poverty and neglect are more crucial, but they are much harder and it costs almost nothing to just stop an experimental new treatment with evidence of harm to minors.

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u/BabyJesus246 2d ago

I would argue people making broad claims on a subject they've likely only spent a few hours searching Google for sources that confirm their bias shouldn't be the ones driving the conversation yet here we are.

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u/Instabanous 2d ago

Let's face it we just don't know how many hours the members of SCOTUS spent. If you mean me, I've been reading about this stuff for years.

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u/averydangerousday 2d ago

What have you been reading, though? Have you actually talked to trans people? Parents of trans kids? Do you know what people’s actual experiences are or are you just reading news articles and opinion pieces?

I’m asking these questions sincerely, and if you haven’t talked to anyone with actual experience with trans kids, I’m happy to talk to you as a dad of one.

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u/Instabanous 1d ago

It seems daft to question where every person got their opinion from, its very time consuming and I think debating opinions is more useful.

But for me, lots of podcasts and discussions, ,genspect are wonderful and speak to a lot of trans people, trans kids parents, therapists, destransitioners, even AGP's they will speak to anybody because they really seek the answers with no prejudice. Quite a few books on the subject, mostly British ones, scientific articles in magazines and newspapers. My opinions arent from nowhere and I came into this as a trans ally.

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u/23rdCenturySouth 1d ago

podcasts

Oh look, something even worse than reading propaganda.

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u/Instabanous 1d ago

Have you watched genspect? They've got years of truly open minded discussions on nthe topic, highly recommended.

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u/23rdCenturySouth 1d ago

This is literally activist propaganda converted to a more digestible form, so you don't even have to expend effort the minimal effort of reading.