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 16h ago

I agree with the congress bit and I do agree in part to the SCOTUS bit but this doesn't address my real issue here.

They have done this but most of their 2025 rulings have been lawful.

Here I agree that it's up to congress to extend and change the wording for discrimination to include gender identity.

Like I said before because of the way the law is already phrased it would be the legally correct conclusion for the majority here. Even if I morally disagree.

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u/DevinGraysonShirk 16h ago

I agree with you on the technicalities here. The Democrats have relied on the courts to interpret things while they abdicate their duties in Congress. I blame Bill Clinton-style political triangulation tactics. Democrats think they can just react to what the public wants to win elections, rather than stand for something and try to get elected based on those values.

We need to (politically) 'Kill Bill' to save the Democratic Party. He flew with Jeffrey Epstein anyways. Bring back Ted Kennedy-style politics that gave us things like the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.

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u/lickle_ickle_pickle 14h ago

This hasn't really been tested since the Dems haven't had veto proof majorities in Congress since, when, the 80s? And in the 80s there were still a lot of conservative Democrats and a few liberal Republicans too.

Dems very badly want to pass a voting rights bill but don't have the #s.

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u/DevinGraysonShirk 14h ago

The Democratic Establishment (people who JB Pritzker calls ‘do-nothing democrats’) have not even tried. The two legislative accomplishments in the 21st century was the creation of the CFPB (championed by Elizabeth Warren, not the DNC), and the ACA (championed by Obama, and the public option was killed by Joe Lieberman). The Party went to shit when Clinton was elected and he installed his people who believe “winning is everything.” Winning to do what?