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.

  • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
    23·
    22 days ago

    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.

    • actually@lemmy.world
      3·
      22 days ago

      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?

      • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
        2·
        22 days ago

        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.

        • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          22 days ago

          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

        • actually@lemmy.world
          2·
          22 days ago

          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