Supreme Court Greenlights Tennessee’s Ban On Sex-Change Procedures For Kids

The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s law banning child sex change procedures on Wednesday.

In a 6-3 ruling, the court held that Tennessee’s law does not violate the Equal Protection clause.

“This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound. The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements.”

“Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process,” Roberts continued.

Tennessee passed its law, which restricts minors from receiving medical treatments intended to help them live as an identity “inconsistent” with their sex, in 2023. The Biden administration challenged the law as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) changed its position on the case in February but urged the Supreme Court to move forward with issuing a ruling.

Trump signed an executive order in January cutting federal funding for child sex changes, where he called the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) “junk science” and banned federal agencies from citing its guidance. The Biden administration relied on WPATH standards in its briefs filed before the court.

From the article:

"Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) changed its position on the case in February but urged the Supreme Court to move forward with issuing a ruling."

Trump's Department of Justice never changed its position. The direction of the Department of Justice changed with the inauguration of a new President. The February event in the case was the earliest opportunity in the scheduling of the case events for that change to be manifested. From the time of Trump's announcement of his run for the 2024 Election, there has been no change in his position.

This is exactly what the Democrats are waiting for in the US -- for SCOTUS to solve their tranny problem.

"Polls show the transgender ideology is deeply unpopular, especially among women and parents. In 2017, former President BarackObama told NPR that his promotion of transgender ideology made it easier for Trump to win the presidency."

This could easily be permanently resolved and these butchers be put away the same way the Left destroyed Big Tobacco.

The GOP needs to stop trading off the fact that the subject is a good grind against the Democrats at the District level -- as flatly stated by no less than Obama himself -- and the Republicans actually protect their constituents!

Gender Care Master Settlement Agreement
The GCMSA was entered on ________, 2026, between the 4 largest US gender care companies: Planned Parenthood @PPFA, the American Medical Association @AmerMedicalAssn, the American Academy of Pediatrics @AmerAcadPeds, and @WPATH – the "original participating manufacturers", referred to as the "OPM") and the attorneys general of 46 states. The states settled their lawsuits against the gender care industry for recovery of their gender-related health-care costs.
The companies agreed to curtail or cease certain gender care marketing practices, as well as to pay, in perpetuity, various annual payments to the states to compensate them for some of the medical costs of caring for persons with gender care-related illnesses.
The money also funds a new detransition advocacy clearinghouse, the "Global Truth About Gender Initiative", that is fully-funded for enlightenment campaigns, such as "There Are Only Two Sexes" and "Detransition Now!"; and maintains a public archive of documents resulting from the cases. In the GCSA, the original participating manufacturers (OPM) agreed to pay a minimum of US$1 trillion over the first 25 years of the agreement.

Do you want to know how that was done? Replace "tobacco" with "gender care", that is nearly verbatim the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

What the GOP is missing out on, is that bringing this to a halt will take at least a year -- what better quality-of-life issue to run on in 2026 than this Master Settlement Agreement? Fill Committee meetings with detransitioned men and women. Have another Committee take up meetings on amending Title IX to keep these mutants out of women's sports.

You want to end this holocaust? Put a goddamn end to it!

“Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process,” Roberts continued.

Whatever his flaws in other cases, this is a critical point that judges either accept, or they don't. It just isn't their job to make everything fair, just, or morally correct. It's their job to interpret the Constitution. And if the Constitution doesn't speak to something, then they should leave that topic alone and not fill in the blanks with what they think the Constitution "should" have said.

This is and should be a state by state policy decision.

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