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.
A good way to tell the long term future of a state is to see how ballots are counted, and if the published stats pass United Nations tests for fair elections.
Most states flunk, some pass, it’s been a few years since I last checked, so I’m not going to give potentially bad info. But it falls down to what one might suspect, more blue states pass than red states