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On 19 Jun 2025, short shit <al@aohello.con> posted some
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> https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5356897-supreme-court-tennessees-youth-transgender/
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> Trump wins again.
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> The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on puberty
> blockers and hormone treatments for transgender minors in a 6-3
> decision along ideological lines that stands to impact similar laws
> passed in roughly half the country. 
> 
> Rejecting a challenge mounted by the Biden administration, the high
> court ruled Tennessee’s law does not amount to sex discrimination that
> requires a higher level of constitutional scrutiny, removing a key
> line of attack that LGBTQ rights advocates have used to try to topple
> similar laws. 
> 
> “Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy
> to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic
> process,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court’s six
> Republican-appointed justices. 
> 
> The court’s three Democratic-appointed justices dissented, saying they
> would’ve held the law to heightened scrutiny. 
> 
> Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the more exacting standard raises
> questions about whether Tennessee’s law would survive. She read her
> dissent aloud from the bench, which the justices reserve for
> emphasizing their strong disagreements with a case. 
> 
> “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,” Sotomayor wrote,
> joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. 
> 
> Tennessee’s law, S.B. 1, prohibits health care providers from
> administering puberty blockers or hormone therapy to transgender
> minors when the medications are prescribed to help them transition.
> The law, which Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed in 2023, also bans
> gender-transition surgeries for minors, though that provision was not
> at issue before the high court. Providers who violate the law can face
> $25,000 civil fines for violations. 
> 
> Three Tennessee families and a doctor originally sued, and the Biden
> administration joined them, asserting the law discriminated based on
> sex in violation of the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal
> protection. 
> 
> The high court rejected that notion, instead siding with Tennessee.
> The state insisted the law distinguishes based on a treatment’s
> medical purpose, not sex, and the court should defer to the
> Legislature’s judgment about regulating medicine for children. 
> 
> “This case carries a simple lesson: In politically contentious debates
> over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty, courts should not
> assume that self-described experts are correct,” Justice Clarence
> Thomas, one of the court’s leading conservatives, wrote in a separate,
> concurring opinion. 
> 
> Tennessee’s Republican Attorney General, Jonathan Skrmetti celebrated
> the court’s ruling Wednesday, saying voters’ “common sense” prevailed
> over “judicial activism.” 
> 
>  “A bipartisan supermajority of Tennessee’s elected representatives
>  carefully considered the evidence and voted to protect kids from
>  irreversible decisions they cannot yet fully understand,” Skrmetti
>  wrote in a statement following the ruling. 

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