Supreme Court takes up Tennessee ban on hormone treatment for trans teens

essentialsaltes said:

Supreme Court will decide if states may prohibit hormones for transgender teens​

The justices have not ruled on whether discrimination based on gender identity is unconstitutional.

In the last three years, however, many Republican-led states have enacted laws that forbid medical treatments intended to help youths under 18 transition to what the measures describe as a “purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.”

The Biden administration, the ACLU and Lambda Legal urged the court to hear casesfrom Tennessee and Kentucky and to rule discrimination against transgender youth violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws.

The court said it would hear arguments in the fall in the Tennessee case.

Parents played a lead role in the legal challenges. Samantha Williams and her husband, Brian, had sued in Nashville on behalf of their transgender daughter, who was identified as L.W.

“Before coming out and starting to receive this medical care she struggled to make friends, keep her grades up, or even accept hugs from her family. Now, we have a confident, happy daughter who is free to be herself. I want the Justices to see and understand my daughter and recognize her rights under the Constitution like any other person, and to see that if parents like me don’t have the right to determine what’s best for our children, then no parent does,” she said.

U.S. Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth Prelogar had urged the court to take up the issue. She said the state laws impose “a categorical ban on evidence-based treatments supported by the overwhelming consensus of the medical community.”

[24 states have similar laws; many are already temporarily blocked by judges. Should SCOTUS rules in TN's favor, the laws would likely take effect.]

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essentialsaltes said:

Many states have carveouts for minors drinking alcohol when in their homes and in the presence and consent of the parents.

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essentialsaltes said:

Many states have carveouts for minors drinking alcohol when in their homes and in the presence and consent of the parents.

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AlexB23 said:

If one can not vote until 18 or drink until 21 in the US, then 18 or 21 should be a minimum age limit for folks to take hormones, but that is just my opinion.

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Hans Blaster said:

Is there some *physical* reason why hormone treatments should be withheld until 18 (physical maturity)?

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AlexB23 said:

If one can not vote until 18 or drink until 21 in the US, then 18 or 21 should be a minimum age limit for folks to take hormones, but that is just my opinion.

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BCP1928 said:

I agree, and disapprove of irreversible treatments for trans minors. But individual cases vary and I think that even though I disapprove, it is still a matter best left to the children, their parents and their doctors. When making that decision, they need consider no morality but their own.

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rjs330 said:

I disagree. What we find is that kids are not mentally or emotionally mature enough to make such a decision. Parents are far too ill informed which also has been proven to be the case.
Everyone depends on the doctors. Doctors don't have any specialized training or education on how to handle these cases and lean on groups like the APA who also dont have any specialized education and lean on rhe "experts" in this case who are nothing more than transactivist organizations. Parents are strictly depending on doctors.to guide them. So in essence it's not leaving decisions to parents kids and doctors. It's leaving decisions to the doctors. Because the parents don't have the answers and are depending on the guidance of the doctors. And by default leaning on transactivist organizations who are all for transing the kids. Parents and kids are being decieved by these places into thinking transing the kids is the only answer. Parents are just looking for answers for their distressed kids and are depending on the doctors for answers because they don't know. They are being told by people on line and maybe their kid that if they don't transition them the kid will kill themselves.

Whereas Europe has discovered that what transactivist organizations have done is fool everyone by bogus research so they've ended what America has continued to do.

So saying leaving it up to parents kids and the doctor sounds nice, it's a nothing more than a mirage. In the words of the great bard "it's a tale told by an idiot, full of the sound of fury, signifying nothing".

(and to be clear I'm not calling you and idiot. You aren't the first to call for leaving it up to the kids, parents and doctors)

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BCP1928 said:

Europe is not banning trans care for minors, they're just trying to do it better. We could try to do better too, instead of banning it for religious reasons.

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Hans Blaster said:

Is there some *physical* reason why hormone treatments should be withheld until 18 (physical maturity)?

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BCP1928 said:

I agree, and disapprove of irreversible treatments for trans minors. But individual cases vary and I think that even though I disapprove, it is still a matter best left to the children, their parents and their doctors. When making that decision, they need consider no morality but their own.

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RileyG said:

Amen.

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