Today, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is hearing oral arguments regarding the Tennessee law that bans doctors from certain procedures for trans kids. Procedures like certain surgeries and prescriptions like cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers. The case, the United States vs. Skrmetti, was brought by the Biden Justice Department against the Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. One of the lawyers arguing against the law is Chase Strangio of the ACLU, the first Transgender person to argue a case before the Supreme Court.

The Wall Street Journal wrote the case up like this:

Believe it or not, the U.S. government will argue to the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the 14th Amendment means a state cannot ban transgender hormone regimens for adolescents. Perhaps that sentence sounds like jabberwocky, but the feds are serious, and so are the potential implications of U.S. v. Skrmetti.

The law being challenged is from Tennessee, and it prohibits administering medical treatments to minors if the purpose is to enable a gender transition or to address “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.” That prevents doctors from doing surgeries and supplying puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. Almost half of states have similar rules, according to the government’s filing.

This is a 14th Amendment to The Constitution case or equal protection case. Anyway, that’s why the Biden Justice Department brought the case:

Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

I don’t see how anyone could look at minor children transgenderism from just a legal or Constitutional perspective, but the WSJ article says that’s the way it is:

The evidence for such treatments is disputed in the briefs, but the real question for the Justices is legal. The U.S. solicitor general’s thesis is that the Tennessee law discriminates by sex and transgender status, violating the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws.”

The SCOTUS is going to argue obscure and inane legal points in a case brought by the Biden Justice Department because they don’t believe in democracy or our Republic and never have. To heck with what the people of Tennessee want. In this opening statement, the Justice Department argues that this is a complete ban (14th Amendment) when it is an age band and Justice Thomas Clarence calls her out.

Speaking of deepening the voice and growing facial hair. This TransMan is the first of his kind to argue before the Supreme Court. Meet Chase Strangio:

Chase Strangio of the @ACLU "came out as transgender" as a 20-something, started hormones, and then "found peace in my body."

Tennessee is trying to ensure that, just like Strangio, all kids have the opportunity to go through puberty and emerge from adolescence before making… pic.twitter.com/kkM29DFGlf

— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) December 3, 2024

Listening to the voice on the SCOTUS feed, Chase got the facial hair, but not the deeper voice:

I thought I was mentally prepared to hear this trans lawyer’s voice… apparently not https://t.co/3nS677b0Hk

— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) December 3, 2024

Not only is Chase a TransMan but he will also “Aid and abet abortion” as his T-shirt says. Dear God. Of course, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who can’t define a woman had found this law to be analogous to interracial marriage:

Ketanji Brown Jackson just compared bans on sex changes for kids to bans on interracial marriage. pic.twitter.com/XOOZRLOI2N

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 4, 2024

Slate Magazine thinks the “ban” on transgender care is dangerous. This isn’t a ban. This is simply setting an age of consent:

he Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in Skrmetti v. U.S., a case of such immense importance to constitutional equality and with such devastating potential consequences that it’s hard to even describe. First and foremost, Skrmetti asks whether legislation that prohibits gender-affirming care for transgender youth is lawful under the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. These bans, now enacted in about half the states, have uprooted families across the country, forcing some to travel hundreds of miles, or move to another state, just to maintain their child’s medical treatment. Like abortion restrictions, they represent an abnormal and alarming intrusion into the practice of medicine based on politicians’ personal beliefs about who should be trusted to make decisions about their own bodies.

“The sky is falling.” is both stupid and no longer a viable political argument. Most Americans have woken up. Currently, 25 states ban underage surgeries and hormones. England has banned puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for minors.

Some day, very soon, we will look back on all this horror. A decision from the Supreme Court is not due until Spring, 2025.

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