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.
In Nazi Germany, transgender people were prosecuted, barred from public life, forcibly detransitioned, and imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. Though some factors, such as whether they were considered “Aryan”, heterosexual with regard to their birth sex, or capable of useful work had the potential to mitigate their circumstances, transgender people were largely stripped of legal status by the Nazi state.
The GOP court will be following reactionary tradition.
This is what Make America Great Again means: persecution of the people they hate.
Male Aryan Gestapo Alliance
MAGA is just another word for NAZI
I don’t care what anyone says. They are the same.
A MAGA is a NAZI. A NAZI is a MAGA.
Yep. That’s what I’ve been saying since about 2015. Anyone putting on one of those fucking hats might as well be donning some SS gear.
I DGAF what the centrists and the Tone Police say.
I am an outsider. People need to move. If your community is actively hostile towards you, then you should relocate. I get that its ‘home’ but the environment change may be just as beneficial as surgery. I don’t know shit but I want people to be safe and happy. These states need to be ghosttowns with no young people. No women. Just a bunch of elderly, truck drivers and welders wondering where all their caregivers went.
This is the US supreme Court so there’s nowhere for us to go. No country on Earth takes refugees from the US. That’s what was so cool about the US once upon a time in history, it was the one place you could go, that provided an option if your birth country was hostile.
Now that the US is hostile to its own people, there’s no country to go to.
It’s still much much much better to be in some states than others. It’s also far easier to move now while there is still freedom of interstate movement. It may not get so bad, but why make any assumptions?
I agree, it’s better is some states than others -right now-. But any state you move to has the chance that it will elect a GOP governor and legislature and become the next bad place. I don’t see a single state in the nation that is so blue that it is guaranteed to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Unlike abortion, no state has trans-rights in their constitution.
Just look at NYC. Our governor is absolutely useless and our mayor is a Trump loving traitor under investigation by the FBI
Though we do have trans rights in our constitution now
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
California, the issue here is with the state, not the country as a whole. Their are much more friendly states to live.
Easy to say, impossible for most to do.
With this supreme court it was never going to go any other way.
This is the price of Trump’s first term. God only knows how high the cost of his second will be.
So glad the Democrats upheld norms instead of doing shit to stop this
