The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth in the case of U.S. v. Skrmetti. It has been a 6-3 decision, with the Court’s Republican appointees (most by Donald Trump) opposing trans rights and the Democratic appointees supporting them.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the majority, and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan wrote dissenting opinions. Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas wrote concurring opinions.
Skrmetti concerns three families of transgender youth, as well as a doctor, who argued that they’re victims of Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. They argued that they were being deprived of essential medical care on the basis of their sex, since the gender-affirming care ban only bans such care for trans youth.
Roberts, in the majority opinion, wrote that the law doesn’t discriminate on the basis of sex or on the basis of transgender status, saying that it only makes distinctions based on a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
That is the same definition of trans identity that the Trump Administration is using for the trans military ban, which also bars people with “symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria” from joining the military.
With this ruling, the Supreme Court is greenlighting the eradication of trans people from society. The are allowing the 25 states that currently have such bans on the books to continue to enforce them.
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