A Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth can go into effect immediately, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Saturday, temporarily staying a lower court’s ruling and marking the first federal court ruling of its kind.

Democrats really need to start protesting far more, this is getting ridiculous. I thought we were making so much progress…

“The challengers do not argue that the original fixed meaning of either the due process or equal protection guarantee covers these claims,” Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote in the court’s opinion. “That prompts the question whether the people of this country ever agreed to remove debates of this sort — about the use of new drug treatments on minors — from the conventional place for dealing with new norms, new drugs, and new technologies: the democratic process.”

Dude sounds completely ideological in this opinion. I don’t subject my healthcare to popular opinion, and I fail to see why parents of trans youth should. I am also extremely skeptical that he could get far enough into the case to issue an opinion at all without being told that these are *not * new drugs and have been in use for decades for this exact purpose, and even longer for cis children.