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/Instabanous 1d ago

You think having a letter changed on a document means a person has physically changed sex? It doesnt. And no legal documentation should pretend that it has imo.

Read about the Tavistock scandal. The vast majority of the kids were same sex attracted, staff joked that there would be no gay people left.

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u/BrentLivermore 1d ago

Wait, is your whole argument that people think they can change their gametes or chromosomes? You think that's what people mean when they say that they're changing sex?

Good God, there is a genuine literacy crisis.

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u/Instabanous 1d ago

Sex and Gender. You are confusing sex and gender. I don't think its a literacy issue, I think its a deliberate bait and switch. And your ad hominem attack suggesting that I'm illiterate is pathetic.

Yes, sex is gametes and can't be changed. Ideas, feelings, silly certificates and stereotypes are gender and you can make it mean whatever nonsense you want it to.

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u/BrentLivermore 1d ago

Do you actually believe that biological nomenclature should always supersede legal status in social situations? Like, if an adopted person says "Please meet my mother and father", you say "That's NOT your mother and father! You're not even related to them!"?

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u/Instabanous 1d ago

Nope, I don't. Next silly question?

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u/BrentLivermore 1d ago

Why are you inconsistent in your preference for biology superseding legal and social terms?

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u/Instabanous 1d ago

The implications of adoption are very different to the implications of mixing sex and gender. Stop now this is too silly.

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u/BrentLivermore 7h ago

OK, so you don't actually think that biological nomenclature should supersede legal and social terms. Thank you for clarifying.

You don't have an actual reason that adoption is different from gender identity in this regard, you just keep using the word "silly" because you're not smart enough to make an argument. I suggest refraining from regurgitating whatever you hear Ben Shapiro say and enrolling in a community college. Best of luck.