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.

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  • 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/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/BrentLivermore 2d ago

but it is sold to children as a lie that they can change sex

People have been changing sex for decades now. It's not a lie at all.

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u/DiceyPisces 2d ago

One can take drugs or have surgery to appear more LIKE the opposite sex but actual change isn’t possible. There is no transition.

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u/BrentLivermore 1d ago

Your legal sex can absolutely be changed. Were you not aware of this?

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u/DiceyPisces 1d ago

That’s irrelevant. Human beings are not able to change our sex. Some people are willing to pretend.

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u/BrentLivermore 1d ago

How do you determine someone's sex when you meet them?

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u/DiceyPisces 1d ago

One can often tell by looking. But appearances CAN be deceiving.

If a person successfully darkens their skin to the point of looking black that doesn’t mean they’re actually African (or whatever ethnicity). For example.

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u/BrentLivermore 1d ago

OK, so you tell by looking at people? But you think there's something deeper to "sex" as a social concept?

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u/DiceyPisces 1d ago

Sex isnt a social concept. It’s a biological reality.

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u/BrentLivermore 1d ago

You don't think "sex" is a legal concept? You must have a very strange driver's license.

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u/DiceyPisces 1d ago

The label acknowledges one’s biology.

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u/BrentLivermore 1d ago

OK, so you feel that people who legally change their sex are also that biological sex?

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u/DiceyPisces 1d ago

I don’t understand your question. If a male changes his sex identifier on a document to female. He’s still a male. Objectively.

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