Supreme Court will take up state bans on gender-affirming care for minors

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MARK SHERMAN
Updated 8:42 AM CDT, June 24, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care.

The justices’ action comes as Republican-led states have enacted a variety of restrictions on health care for transgender people, school sports participation, bathroom usage and drag shows. The administration and Democratic-led states have extended protections for transgender people, including a new federal regulation that seeks to protect transgender students.

The case before the high court involves a law in Tennessee that restrict puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors. The federal appeals court in Cincinnati allowed laws in Tennessee and Kentucky to take effect after they had been blocked by lower courts. (The high court did not act on a separate appeal from Kentucky.)

“Without this Court’s prompt intervention, transgender youth and their families will remain in limbo, uncertain of whether and where they can access needed medical care,” lawyers for the transgender teens in Tennessee told the justices.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-health-tennessee-kentucky-75e3b446513f61281013a2bf86248044

[Irish_Dem]

1. Supreme Court jumping for joy.

Yet another chance to screw over more Americans.

[PSPS]

2. Yes, law school is where everyone interested in medicine enrolls!

[riversedge]

3. Arguments will take place in the fall. Last week, South Carolina became the 25th state to adopt a law restricting

............Arguments will take place in the fall.

Last week, South Carolina became the 25th state to adopt a law restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, even though such treatments have been available in the United States for more than a decade and are endorsed by major medical associations.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-health-tennessee-kentucky-75e3b446513f61281013a2bf86248044

[aeromanKC]

4. One good thing about being Old....

I'm not going to have to deal with this SCOTUS much longer. I feel sorry for the next generation. It's going to be 30 years before we can fix this shit. Fuck McConnell and fuck this SCOTUS!!!

[Jean Genie]

5. Liberty and justice?

The home of the brave and the land of the not-so free!

[Deep State Witch]

6. Of Course they Will

Because the conservative justices are just itching to take more rights away.

[Initech]

7. They are unconstitutional. Period. End of debate.

Fuck Alex Jones and the dark corners of the internet that created this bullshit.

[Polybius]

8. Probably this will be the big one for 2025

Opinion released late June of next year.

[slightlv]

9. Of course SCOTUS

will rule for states' rights, we already know that... especially when it's in line with their right wing agenda.

[melm00se]

10. The case in question is

United States v. Skrmetti

The question before the court is:

Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1), which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow “a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or to treat “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity,” Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-33-103(a)(1), violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

[LeftInTX]

11. There are actually kids who undergo sex issues at birth. (born with medical issues)

Years ago, there was an infant boy born with an omphalocele. Large hole in abdominal wall with urinary and GI organs protruding. Male organs were removed during repair surgery. (Probably fairly common back then). Kid almost died numerous time. Years later, the family decided to change him back into a boy.

I don't know if they have the technology now to preserve male organs in cases like this, but if your urinary tract won't work, maybe they can create an ostomy and leave the penis/testes etc and reconnect them later.