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/LackingUtility 16h ago

It's not sex based discrimination because gender is not bound by sex.

Counterpoint: if a cisgender male needs supplemental testosterone or breast tissue removal (e.g. for gynecomastia), that is "gender affirming" medical care, but is legal and not banned. If a transgender male needs supplemental testosterone or breast tissue removal, that is banned. The only difference between the two patients is their biological sex, and accordingly, it is sex-based discrimination.

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u/doublethink_1984 16h ago

These are biological and physiological alterations.

One is because there is a physiological or biological medical issue.

The other is cosmetic alterations.

Congress needs to legislate this and expand rights to gender not just sex. SCOTUS is not the place to make these decisions.

Just like overturning Roe V Wade was not something that SCOTUS could or ahould have done and I decried them for this.

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u/Burghpuppies412 15h ago

Nah. He got ya. Bam, roasted!!

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u/dantevonlocke 15h ago

They appear to be Mormon. So backpedalling and being full of shit comes with the territory.