Majority of Supreme Court seems reluctant to block state bans on medical treatments for minors
- The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors, focusing on the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
- The law does not ban puberty blockers and hormone treatments "across the board," according to families' lawyers.
- Conservative justices appear inclined to uphold state laws prohibiting hormone treatments for transgender teens nationwide.
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High Court Takes Up Sex-Change Surgery Ban/ Meatless Fridays Makes Fine Advent Fare
(photo: Migi Fabara/CNA / EWTN) The Supreme Court heard oral argument Dec. 4 for U.S. v. Skrmetti. A decision on the case is likely to impact transgender laws across the country. Legal analyst Andrea Picciotti-Bayer provides analysis of the case involving minors and sex-altering medical interventions. Then we turn to more spiritual matters this Advent as Register staff writer Matthew McDonald shares with how meatless Fridays may help deepen our …
Supreme Court signals it will uphold 'state-sanctioned discrimination' in transgender care
Attorneys who argued against Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming healthcare at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed hope that the court's nine justices will take "the opportunity to affirm the essential freedom and equality of all people before the law," while reports indicated that the rig...
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