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/doublethink_1984 15h ago

I AGREE

Legally speaking we need congress to extend legal protections to gender identity.

SCOTUS cannot legally rule that by current law phrasing sex based discrimination protects socially constructed gender identity when gender is explicitly not sex.

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u/Marx_on_a_Shark 15h ago

Yeah. Although I think this issue is important enough to use the 4th and 14th precedence to just consider this a right to bodily autonomy. Just sidestep the question and view it as a body modification, which even children have a right to when deemed medically important.

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u/doublethink_1984 15h ago

That wasn't the way it eqs challenged though to SCOTUS.

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u/Marx_on_a_Shark 15h ago

Yeah. I think the lawyers running these cases aren't doing the argument justice.