Supreme Court hears challenge to law banning gender-affirming care for trans kids

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Source: NPR

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Supreme Court hears challenge to law banning gender-affirming care for trans kids

DECEMBER 4, 2024 5:00 AM ET
HEARD ON MORNING EDITION
Nina Totenberg

Front and center at the Supreme Court on Wednesday is the battle over the rights of transgender children. At issue is a state law in Tennessee that blocks minors from accessing gender-affirming care in the state.

In the last three years, more than two dozen states have enacted laws that ban puberty blockers, hormones and other treatments for minors seeking gender-affirming care. The issue has become highly politicized, as anyone who watched election ads this fall can attest.

Challenging Tennessee's law in the Supreme Court are three trans kids and their parents.

LW, as she is known in legal documents, is one of them.

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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-5179003/supreme-court-gender-affirming-care-trans-kids

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1. Saw on TNHoller that our ahole GOP legislature leaders are in DC

Showing support for this awful law I suppose

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3. Remember when the Arizona state kooks were scratching at the carpet for that 1850 law?

I hate those stupid mf'ers. Writing public policy. Crazy as F.

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2. The vile 6 can't wait to claw at this one

I predict a bad, 17th century solution. Oh, and jeeeeesus.

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4. Livestream & audio rec links

Oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti will begin at 10 a.m. EST on Wednesday.

Livestream:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx

Later today the recording should be up:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio/2024

Background:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/12/supreme-court-to-hear-challenge-to-ban-on-transgender-health-care-for-minors/

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5. They claim they're 'thinking of the children'

Sen. Johnson, the sponsor of the Tennessee bill, sees things very differently.
"We want to love these kids," he says. "But let's see if we can get them to their 18th birthday, which is when we recognize people as an adult."

(same article)
How many kids will end up killing themselves, because they CAN'T wait?
Thankfully, my trans grandson was able to receive treatment in TN before this law took effect. He is now living in another state, is an adult, and will never go back to TN.

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6. Supreme Ct. Hears Case on Medical Treatments for Transgender Minors

December 4, 2024
Supreme Ct. Hears Case on Medical Treatments for Transgender Minors
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti, a case on whether Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical treatments for minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

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7. SCOTUS conservative majority appears ready to endorse Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors

SCOTUS conservative majority appears ready to endorse Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors

By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed, Devan Cole, Elizabeth Wolfe and Chelsea Bailey, CNN
Updated 2:27 PM EST, Wed December 4, 2024

What you need to know

• The conservative majority on the Supreme Court appeared ready to endorse a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors after hearing arguments Wednesday on US v. Skrmetti — a case that could determine whether states can ban this type of care for trans children and teens. A decision is expected by July 2025.

• During the arguments, Justice Ketanji Brown said she is “suddenly quite worried” and “nervous” about conservatives’ arguments in the controversy. The case, brought by the Biden administration on behalf of families of trans youth, challenges the constitutionality of Tennessee’s gender-affirming care ban, which restricts puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors and enacts civil penalties for doctors who violate the law.

• The Tennessee law is among a growing number of state laws enacted in recent years targeting transgender care. Republican lawmakers who support the ban say decisions about care should be made after an individual becomes an adult. Opponents argue that in addition to violating the civil rights of trans youth, the laws also run afoul of parents’ rights to make decisions about their child’s medical care.

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