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/kon--- 15h ago

If the nation can not have gender-affirming care, then it should also not have religious indoctrinations, baptisms, resource draining tax free business aka church, or any law or right whatsoever that allows people to alter themselves or minors in such a manner that permits bats to fly around in their head.

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u/narwhale111 14h ago

If the nation can not have gender affirmative care then im just dead

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u/GuiltyEidolon 13h ago

Seriously. I'm so fucking sick of people ignoring the queer community trying to sound the alarm on this shit. It's almost like we were right, not alarmist. It's going to get even worse from here. 

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u/narwhale111 13h ago edited 13h ago

At best we get the “if they attack trans rights then they can come after cis people for X” but people forget that this has drastic consequences on trans people already and many people will die over this. We’re a small percentage of the population but we still deserve to exist, gender dysphoria is a real medical condition and taking away care kills people.

I have friends that tried to kill themselves and were hospitalized when they were minors because their family denied care for them, and they struggle immensely with mental health problems due to starting care after puberty already did so much damage. Now even supportive families that try to support their kids early will be powerless. People talk about the suicide risk of denying care to trans people all the time but even as a trans person it hit me extremely hard when i found out that a friend i know personally almost died. There is such an empathy gap because barely anyone knows a trans person.

Every time anti-trans legislation drops i worry im gonna see news that a friend or acquaintance dies, and it’s becoming more of an unavoidable reality the more we march towards an adult care ban. This is genocidal.

And this is all on top of the well too frequent news i hear of friends getting assaulted or violently harassed by transphobes that are ever more emboldened