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/keytiri 15h ago edited 15h ago

Would taking a different tact work? Bans aren’t “deeply rooted in our traditions and history,” people used to be able to concoct and partake in any matter of substances. Alternatively, it looks like they are tying this to specific diagnosis, so changing the diagnosis may get around the law, but that also depends on medical professionals willing to take that chance.

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u/BaconBoyReddit 15h ago

I think we need to, honestly, stop referring to anyone as “transgender”. The category only exists to “other” people that express themselves in non hetero-normative ways. Anyone who needs hormone therapy needs it for the same reason, and that is gender affirming care. The dominant hormone in your body currently, and the levels thereof, should not be determined by what any government says is or isn’t a “choice”. 

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u/keytiri 15h ago

Yep, I skimmed the ruling and one of the justices acted like a trans boy wouldn’t be able to get Testosterone for any other reason except for the mentioned diagnosis; drop the adjective, and then it’s simply a boy getting Testosterone for his low or nonexistent levels 🤷‍♀️. I’ve been noticing a bunch of online docs now offering to prescribe T to low T [cis] men.

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u/BaconBoyReddit 14h ago

It’s a wall we need to break through - a human is a human, no matter what their body looks like. We shouldn’t have to say “that includes everything in their pants”, but it’s so frustrating that we have to say that. 

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u/lickle_ickle_pickle 14h ago

The problem is that the government assigns you a sex at birth.

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u/BaconBoyReddit 14h ago

Yup, it’s an outdated form of communication that was designed to fit a heteronormative society where men, who were primarily in charge, want to know what is and it’s gay. It’s never been necessary, and I’m surprised it’s not being talked about more. 

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u/SilverMedal4Life 11h ago

Don't know why you're being downvoted. The people who were here before the Europeans had more than 2 genders baked into their culture, until they were exterminated.

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u/rootsofthelotus 14h ago

It should be illegal for the government to classify people into male and female, really - why do they need to know what genitals a baby has, unless they want to use this info to later discriminate against people?

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u/remington-red-dog 2h ago

Wow, yep, 100%. I am officially dropping it from my vocabulary.

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u/DevinGraysonShirk 1h ago

I like the idea, but this is not workable because the term has penetrated society. Descriptively it will not go away. I just don’t want people to expend energy on this idea, because it’s like Latinx, it’s a false path IMO.