Here’s a press release that just popped out from the office of Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti on a huge victory his office won in front of the Supreme Court…
The United States Supreme Court today announced a landmark decision upholding Tennessee’s law restricting gender-transition interventions for minors and affirming the State’s authority to protect kids from risky and unproven medical practices. Tennessee’s lawmakers enacted the challenged legislation in response to a surge in the provision of puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries to minors with gender-identity issues. These medical interventions often result in permanent physical changes and have life-altering effects, including irreversible loss of fertility. Numerous health authorities have concluded that the risks of these interventions outweigh any possible benefit. “In today’s historic Supreme Court win, the common sense of Tennessee voters prevailed over judicial activism,” said Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. “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. I commend the Tennessee legislature and Governor Lee for their courage in passing this legislation and supporting our litigation despite withering opposition from the Biden administration, LGBT special interest groups, social justice activists, the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, and even Hollywood.” As Chief Justice John Roberts writes in the 6-3 opinion of the Court: “This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field. The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound. The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best. Our role is not ‘to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic’ of the law before us, but only to ensure that it does not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment. Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process.” “The rapid and unexplained rise in the number of kids seeking these life-altering interventions, despite the lack of supporting evidence, calls for careful scrutiny from our elected leaders,” Attorney General Skrmetti asserted. “This victory transcends politics. It’s about real Tennessee kids facing real struggles. Families across our state and our nation deserve solutions based on science, not ideology. Today’s landmark decision recognizes that the Constitution lets us fulfill society’s highest calling—protecting our kids.” To read a copy of the Supreme Court decision, please click here.
Of course, Louisiana has passed laws similar to Tennessee’s, which means that our anti-pediatric sex change law is also upheld in substantial part.
That’s a big win. It’s a great development. Hopefully the cultural pushback to this trans insanity will drive down the numbers of people being duped into pursuing chemical castrations and surgical mutilations before the tales of woe those Mengelean alterations produce multiply into a mass societal backlash. If there are millions of people whose lives were irreversibly destroyed by hormones and surgeries because they went through a phase as a kid, and then realize what damage was done to them, exactly what do you do with them?
The lawsuits are going to break the healthcare system. They’ll probably break the insurance industry.
Tennessee and Louisiana aren’t the only states to step in and put a stop to these atrocities before they really get started. Now that the Supreme Court has stepped in to clear the way for bans on pediatric sex changes, hopefully a lot more states will.