Summary

The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, appears poised to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, signaling a pivotal moment for transgender rights.

Roberts, citing state authority over medical decisions, compared the case to his 2015 dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, where he opposed judicial intervention on same-sex marriage.

Conservative justices emphasized minimal judicial scrutiny, while liberal justices, including Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, warned of harm to transgender youths.

The case underscores broader tensions over constitutional protections versus legislative authority in regulating trans rights.

  • @LookBehindYouNowAndThen
    30•9 days ago

    In Nazi Germany, transgender people were prosecuted, barred from public life, forcibly detransitioned, and imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. Though some factors, such as whether they were considered “Aryan”, heterosexual with regard to their birth sex, or capable of useful work had the potential to mitigate their circumstances, transgender people were largely stripped of legal status by the Nazi state.

    The GOP court will be following reactionary tradition.

    This is what Make America Great Again means: persecution of the people they hate.

    • masterofn001
      4•9 days ago

      Male Aryan Gestapo Alliance

      MAGA is just another word for NAZI

      I don’t care what anyone says. They are the same.

      A MAGA is a NAZI. A NAZI is a MAGA.

      • @CharlesDarwinEnglish
        5•9 days ago

        Yep. That’s what I’ve been saying since about 2015. Anyone putting on one of those fucking hats might as well be donning some SS gear.

        I DGAF what the centrists and the Tone Police say.