SCOTUS Upholds Tennessee's Ban on Gender-affirming Care for Youth

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors in a blockbuster ruling that will bolster efforts by conservative state lawmakers to pass and preserve other divisive laws targeting transgender Americans.

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Opinion analysis: Court upholds Tennessee's ban on certain medical treatments for transgender minors

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hoax

#1 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-06-18 12:08 PM | Reply

What a drama queen.

#2 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 12:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

---- u ----

Gender affirming care saves lives

You claim to be all for the children but then again you lie about literally everything

You truly are a despicable human being

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:17 PM | Reply

www.columbiapsychiatry.org

This decision will kill children

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:18 PM | Reply

Why can a child get breast reduction therapy for self esteem but not for gender affirmation ?

#5 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:20 PM | Reply

Why can a child get breast enhancement for self esteem but not for gender affirmation?

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:21 PM | Reply

Why can a child get hormone therapy to delay or accelerate puberty but but for gender affirmation?

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:22 PM | Reply

Why can a child get breast enhancement for self esteem but not for gender affirmation?

#6 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURT

My personal Jesus prefers "enhanced breasts".

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-18 12:23 PM | Reply

Why can a child get a nose job for aesthetic purposes but not for gender affirmation?

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:24 PM | Reply

---- Jeff will never answer those questions honestly

2% regret trans affirmation 91% are happy with gender affirming care

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:25 PM | Reply

Typical right Wingers. Don't believe in not sticking their noses where they don't belong. Plus imposing their religious views in law.

#11 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-18 12:25 PM | Reply

Why can a child get a nose job for aesthetic purposes but not for gender affirmation?

#9 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

Not sure. That's a good question.

Still waiting for Jesus to get back with me on that one.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-18 12:27 PM | Reply

Magat scum are truly vile

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:28 PM | Reply

You are such a butt hurt cooze.

" Gender affirming care saves lives"

Cutting a 15 year old boy's dong off is not going to save his life.

The "study" that claims this type of care saves lives is unscientific nonsense. Kids with gender confusion often suffer from other mental disorders. Immediately defaulting to "gender affirming care" often results in other disorders going untreated.

This is some very dark stuff and history will view this medical malpractice accordingly. It's barbaric and cruel.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 12:30 PM | Reply

Cutting a 15 year old boy's dong off is not going to save his life.
The "study" that claims this type of care saves lives is unscientific nonsense. Kids with gender confusion often suffer from other mental disorders. Immediately defaulting to "gender affirming care" often results in other disorders going untreated.
This is some very dark stuff and history will view this medical malpractice accordingly. It's barbaric and cruel.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 12:30 PM | Reply

---- off Jeff. You're not even being honest about the subject matter at hand. ------- useless troll.

#15 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-18 12:35 PM | Reply

You made your decision as an adult. Gender affirming care for minors is extremely harmful and cruel.

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 12:40 PM | Reply

You made your decision as an adult. Gender affirming care for minors is extremely harmful and cruel.

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 12:40 PM | Reply

Says the know nothing about the subject matter at hand. Typical Jeffy.

#17 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-18 12:42 PM | Reply

The ------- ---- thinks he knows more then every singles medical association

Jeff is a disgusting piece of ----

#18 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:46 PM | Reply

Jeff is lying when he says it is an immediate jump to GAC when in reality it is a long therapeutic process

Because Jeff is a liar

Jeff any chance you will answer the questions I posed?

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-06-18 12:48 PM | Reply

Jeff is a fat lazy coward.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-18 12:52 PM | Reply

GAC includes chemical and hormonal castration. It affirms confusion about one's own body. It even results in surgical mutilation. We are talking about frcking children. Twoothy is a human monster for vociferously cheering this.

#21 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 01:01 PM | Reply

" Why can a child get hormone therapy to delay or accelerate puberty but but for gender affirmation?

#7 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2025-06-18 12:22 PM | FLAG: "

The initial and medically necessary reason puberty blockers were deployed were for children who entered puberty at too young of an age and the usage of these drugs does have risks.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 01:03 PM | Reply

Twoothy is doing his best Snoofy equating a nose job with lopping off genitalia.

#23 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 01:05 PM | Reply

Re 22

Thank you Dr DingaLing.

#24 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-18 01:06 PM | Reply

SCOTUS gets it right again.

#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-06-18 01:11 PM | Reply

Ketanji Brown Jackson should have recused herself for not knowing what a woman is.

#26 | Posted by HanoverFist at 2025-06-18 02:15 PM | Reply

The opinions of each justice are very interesting reads. I didn't read them all but I read some Alito and Sotomayor.

Alito's argument boils down to the fact this Tennessee law does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the context of how equal rights laws were ruled on and enforced.

Males and females are being treated equally, be it fair or not. Adolescent males and females seeking hormone therapy for transitioning are both being equally denied it. The basis of sex is upheld. The basis of transgender is not....but that's another kettle of beans to Alito. "With this background in mind, I do not think that
transgender status is sufficiently similar to race, national
origin, or sex to warrant a higher level of scrutiny."

Sotomayor disagrees........"What does that mean in practice? Simply that sex determines access to the covered medication. Physicians in Tennessee can prescribe hormones and puberty blockers to help a male child, but not a female child, look more like a boy;
and to help a female child, but not a male child, look more
like a girl."

#27 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-18 03:00 PM | Reply