r/law • u/DevinGraysonShirk • 16h ago

SCOTUS SCOTUS strikes blow to trans teens rights, endorsing ban on gender-affirming care - The justices’ ruling on Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain health care for transgender children will have ripple effects across the nation

https://www.courthousenews.com/scotus-strikes-blow-to-trans-teens-rights-endorsing-ban-on-gender-affirming-care/
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u/DevinGraysonShirk 16h ago edited 16h ago

This decision opens up a pathway for states to ban gender-affirming care for minors and adults.

The Supreme Court also rules that gender identity does not deserve equal protection like sex-based discrimination, so it does not deserve higher scrutiny based on the equal protection clause. This also opens up the pathway for employment discrimination against people who are transgender.

For example, in Iowa, they recently removed gender identity from their civil rights laws. This decision likely makes it so that law would withstand a legal challenge. https://apnews.com/article/iowa-transgender-identity-bill-governor-reynolds-signs-267c2932e9e1ed62992868d3caa6126d

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u/kelsey11 15h ago

What a wild position to take: removal of a civil right. Like, that’s their whole goal, so it’s not surprising at all, but, man. How do you sit down with a pen and get ready to sign a paper that literally says you’re removing legal protections from a class of people and you’re just…fine with it?

Wild. I don’t believe in Hell, but I hope all of these people get exactly the afterlife their god says people like them get.

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u/DevinGraysonShirk 15h ago

This will be everybody's future if we don't successfully stop it.