The Supreme United States The conservative majority of the court on Wednesday confirmed the prohibition of the State of Tennessee for the attention to the person who affirms the gender to the minors.
In a 6–3 decision to United States against SkrmettiJustice found that Tennessee’s law is not unconstitutional. The central question of the case was whether Tennessee’s ban violas the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, which states that the Government cannot discriminate individuals based on their race, gender or other characteristics. The ruling does not affect the states in which the care of the gender for youth is still legal, but establishes the precedent that states can ban this type of treatment.
The lawsuit was taken to court by three transgender teens and his parents, as well as a doctor, with the Department of Justice of the Biden Administration who joins the plaintiffs. They argued that Tennessee’s law discriminates discriminated in the condition of gender and gender in denying medical care to transgender young people that is available to other minors. This is the first case that the Supreme Court has raised the issue of care that the gender states to minors.
The attention of the genre includes a variety of medical services aimed at aligning the body of a person more closely with their gender identity. It may include hormonal therapy, puberty blockers and surgeries.
Tennessee promulgated his law by 2023, which prohibits care suppliers prescribing medicines or offer surgical procedures that affirm gender to minors of minors gender identities are different from their sex assigned to birth. The law excludes procedures that deal with congenital defects or physical injuries, as well as the medical care that the gender states for minors that gender identity is in accordance with its designated sex at birth. It means, for example, that a snack boy with gynecomastia, a hormonal condition that causes enlarged male tissue, could receive medicines or submit to surgery to eliminate the breast tissue to form his gender identity, but a transgender individual could not receive the same treatment for gender dismorphy.
Today Luck of the Supreme CourtDelivered by Judge by John Roberts, he argues that Tennessee’s law is not discriminatory because “it prohibits healthcare providers administering puberty or hormones blockers to any minor to treat gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder or gender inconsistency, regardless of the minor’s sex.” According to justice, Tennessee’s law does not exclude any individual from medical treatments based on their transgender state. “Rather, he removes a set of diagnoses: gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder and gender inconsistency, from the range of treatable conditions,” says the sentence.
Since 2021, more than two dozen states have adopted laws or policies that are seriously prohibited or limiting the attention that people under the age of 18 claims. Many of these states also penalize health professionals to offer or offer this kind of care for minors. According to the Non -profit health policy40 percent of trans young people between the ages of 13 and 17 live in a state that has promulgated a policy against the care of gender.
Although several states were facing legal challenges for their bans, today’s Supreme Court’s decision means that these laws will remain intact.
Leading medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the World Health-Sports Organization. Scientific evidence. One 2022 study About 12,000 transgender young people and non-24-year-olds were surveyed, and they found that those who received hormonal therapy who realized gender had lower depression rates, suicide thoughts, and tried to commit suicide than those who did not receive hormonal therapy.
“Today’s Supreme Court’s decision is a devastating blow to the transgender young people and the families who love them,” said Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, an organization that promotes LGBTQ+ civil rights in a statement. “Families may now have to choose the wealth to leave their state or divide their families or adopt large financial burdens, in order to ensure that their children can access the necessary medical care.”
