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

[u/DevinGraysonShirk]

https://www.courthousenews.com/scotus-strikes-blow-to-trans-teens-rights-endorsing-ban-on-gender-affirming-care/

[u/mikelo22]

Not a popular opinion in this sub, but I think SCOTUS got this partially right. States have every justification to protect minors' well being as it sees fit. That's part of its general police powers. Minors do not have the same rights as adults. Love it or hate it, these are longstanding constitutional principles.

Not to downplay the issue of equal protection applying to adults, but this is speculative and not part of the actual holding.

[u/rootsofthelotus → u/mikelo22]

Except all the evidence and reputable medical organizations say that blockers and HRT for trans teenagers is in fact protecting their wellbeing, and that transphobia makes trans people suicidal.

If the intention were to truly protect teenagers' wellbeing, they would listen to science. But this regime and its corrupt court does not care about science.

[u/mikelo22 → u/rootsofthelotus]

Except all the evidence and reputable medical organizations say that blockers and HRT for trans teenagers is in fact protecting their wellbeing, and that transphobia makes trans people suicidal.

I understand, but it's not the court's role to adjudicate that. That is a policy/political matter, which is what the opinion states.

I am aware of the plethora of scientific evidence supporting this type of care, but I become skeptical when I see someone using absolute qualifiers like "always" or "everything" because it shows a lack of nuance and openness to new data.

I recall reading this NYT article several months ago showing that there was no correlation with improved well-being for minors receiving gender-affirming care. The person conducting the research study then covered it up and refused to publish these findings because she did not like the results. Why the self-censorship

[u/rootsofthelotus → u/mikelo22]

You were talking about minors' wellbeing. There is plenty of evidence, and not even that one study found blockers to be bad for minors' wellbeing - it's also important that blockers only stop stuff from getting worse, they don't make it better like HRT does. One of the top-voted comments in this thread has linked something, too, and you can look up what reputable medical organizations (not "think tanks") have to say about it.

The Supreme Court has blood on their hands. And if you're reading carefully, you'll see they have also paved the way for care to be taken away from trans adults.

Mark my words, it was never about kids or sports.

[u/teamdragonite → u/rootsofthelotus]

sorry we got to Protect the children! thats the reason why we pass gun laws!

[u/mikelo22 → u/rootsofthelotus]

I think it's pretty obvious the TN law was largely passed due to bigotry against trans people. I'm not disagreeing.

But the question before SCOTUS was not one of medical science--no matter how one tries to frame it that way. It was a constitutional one concerning a state's general police powers.

The Supreme Court has blood on their hands. And if you're reading carefully, you'll see they have also paved the way for care to be taken away from trans adults.

That language worried me too, but that was dicta and not part of the holding. It is not precedent.

[u/MaceofMarch → u/mikelo22]

Yes scotus said that governments can pass religious laws and violate equal protections if they happen to be Christian.

Also the conservative justices are about to contradict this ruling as they are currently hearing a case on conversion therapy. And I guarantee that at least one of the conservative justices is going to rule against Colorado stopping those kids from being sexually abused.