The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a jolting setback to transgender rights.
The justices’ 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump’s Republican administration and state governments to roll back protections for transgender people. Another 26 states have laws similar to Tennessee’s.
In a dissent for the court’s three liberal justices that she summarized aloud in the courtroom, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, “By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.”
The law also limits parents’ decision-making ability for their children’s health care, she wrote.
God forbid anyone in that cousin-fucking state is happy.
People in favour of small government take away right to medical care for children? Who could’ve seen this coming?
To me, and anyone sane, this is equivalent to child murder. I can’t accurately express the amount of disdain I have for whoever is involved in upholding this inhumane ban. I dread the suicides that will follow. I’m so sad lmao. I wish I could do more.
Conservative Supreme Court Affirms Government’s Power to Override Parents in Children’s Healthcare
The party of small government everyone.
I hate that even if the next president is Democrat, they will still probably do very little to reverse some of the damage done to the transgender community
Biden sure didn’t do anything to stop the red states from targeting trans people during his term
or Roe V Wade, or push to prosecute Trump for his countless crimes during or after office,
but hey, at least they get to use Roe V Wade as a carrot for the elections.
It’s crazy to see how people in major Lemmy communities have flipped. Prior to November you couldn’t say anything bad about democrats without getting a barrage of hate from simps.
They abandoned us a while ago now.
Democrats and Republican are a ratchet,
they maintain a facade for democracy while the rich pocket everything.
Republicans push us to fascism, Democrats then maintain the new status quo, and the cycle repeats.
Next up: banning gender-affirming care for everyone.
That’s what I fear most and have been saying loudly to anyone who will listen, but they are all indifferent.
If I lose access to my care, I don’t know what I will do.
Hopefully you’re in a blue state. Not a guarantee of protection, but better odds than a red one.
If that doesn’t work they’ll just declare that all adults are now children.
Boo!
I hate that the people who get to make these decisions have no understanding of the medical science involved
The Supreme Court in-and-of-itself, is a setback to transgender rights.
I had to search for this post. Nothing about this has hit my feed.
