US EditionDemocrats, major medical groups denounce Supreme Court’s gender-affirming care ruling
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 18, 2025, upholding a Tennessee law banning gender-transition care for transgender minors.
- The case, United States v. Skrmetti, followed extensive litigation and over 30 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the Court to reject bans on essential transgender medical care.
- The majority opinion reasoned the law does not violate equal protection since it restricts care for both male- and female-assigned minors and removes certain diagnoses from treatable conditions.
- Senate leader Chuck Schumer described the Supreme Court ruling as a continuation of Republicans' harsh campaign targeting transgender youth, while Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, expressing that the judgment leaves transgender children and their families vulnerable to political agendas.
- The decision sets a precedent allowing laws restricting transgender health care to remain, prompting continued advocacy and concerns about harm to transgender youth nationwide.
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Transgender community, family members respond to SCOTUS ruling on TN gender-affirming care ban
Transgender Metro Council member Olivia Hill said the real danger lies in not allowing kids to be who they are and living in a community that isn’t accepting of them.
"Although devastating, in no way, this decision marks the end of our struggle and the defense of the rights of transsexuals, it is only the principle."The response to the decision of the Supreme Court of Kierra Johnson, president of the National LGBTQ Working Group."Medical attention of gender affirmation can mean the difference between life and death for our transgender youth.Today, the Supreme Court rejected the science and authorization of he…
Democrats, major medical groups denounce Supreme Court’s gender-affirming care ruling
Democratic leaders and professional medical organizations on Wednesday denounced the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld a 2023 Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a decision the high court delivered along ideological lines and one that stands to impact similar laws passed in roughly half the country. The high court’s three Democratic-appointed justices dissented…
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(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) This morning, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, upholding a Tennessee law banning medical care for transgender kids. While a law stepping between parents-doctors-and-kids on the basis of sex would seem a slam dunk violation of the Equal Protection Clause, Chief Justice Roberts wrote for an expected-but-still-depressing 6-3 majority that it was simply a “medical‑purpose” carve‑out.…
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