Posted on 12/04/2024 3:12:06 AM PST by CFW
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a high-profile case involving the right of transgender minors to receive gender transition care, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, in one of the most closely watched, potentially impactful cases slated to come before the high court this year.
The case, United States v. Skrmetti, centers on a Tennessee law that bans gender-transition treatments for adolescents in the state. The law also takes aim at health care providers in Tennessee who continue to provide gender-transition treatments to transgender minors, opening them up to fines, lawsuits and other liability.
The petitioners in the case are the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which sued to overturn the Tennessee law on behalf of parents of three transgender adolescents, and a Memphis-based doctor who treats transgender patients. The petitioners were also joined by the Biden administration earlier this year under a federal law that allows the administration to intervene in certain cases certified by the attorney general to be of "general public importance."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
At this link, you can scroll down and see the history of the case and the number of amici briefs filed by several groups and individuals. (There are a lot of them).
Issue: Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1, which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow “a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or to treat “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity,” violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
You can read more about the case and the issues before the Court here:
Supreme Court takes up challenge to ban on gender-affirming care
Audio of the oral arguments can be heard at:
And here:
SCOTUS ping!
Pinging!
What happened to common sense?
Mutilating teens, killing babies, legalize crime, legalize drugs that fry the brains and trigger schizophrenia.
Society is going nuts.
When decision comes down the sc will be either clothed or naked. Those voting to allow have been naked for a lengthy time already.
Minors can’t legally consent to smoke, drink, or vote.
But they can consent to Big Med’s atrocities.
Riiiiight....
SIN is a reproach to any nation.
Society hasn’t gone nuts.
We didn’t vote for this.
Deep State isn’t nuts, either.
But Deep State is evil. Sheer, unadulterated evil.
Hopefully SCOTUS will allow Sates to keep pre-adults from being mutilated because their hormones are confused by all the efforts to turn them into LGBQRTSXYZ playthings...
What if a State wanted to legalize gun ownership/carrying, or dinking booze and smoking cigarettes for 10 year olds?
So many young ladies have the same experience. I too was a tomboy. I never wanted to be an actual boy though. I knew I was female and such foolishness never crossed my mind. If it had, my parents would have smacked that thought right out of my head. LOL!
That tomboy phase lasted until I was about 13 and discovered that boys weren’t as “icky” as I thought. A year later I met my husband and three years after that we were married. I did have to return to a bit of my tomboy days occasionally. I had sons so ended up rock-climbing and caving. My experience of the younger years of climbing trees and scrambling through the woods then came in handy.
(I have video somewhere here of me half way up a rock wall in the middle of nowhere and one of my sons yelling “Mom, your boot lace is untied!” Not much I could do at that point but try to make sure the laces didn’t get caught on anything. Obviously, I made it back down the wall unscathed.)
Future generations (if we survive climate chaos) are going to look back at this time and wonder how the people allowed such a travesty of cultist destructive behavior and the mutilation of children.
I think a regretful adult, who was mutulated as a child, should have an 8th amendment case for cruel and unusual punishment.
My daughter was a Tomboy, with 4 older brothers. Catcher on the baseball team, high jumper in college, worked on the farm right beside the boys.
Then she realized that her intelligence and being tall, thin, blonde hair with blue eyes was a real asset. I often joked that I pitied any guy she married as she wore the pants.
But she met a guy equally strong, committed and has a beautiful family at the same time an executive position with an international company.
Children’s values and identities change drastically as they grow up.
Getting a tattoo when young falls into this same category. Many young people have big regrets later in life.
“...right of transgender minors to receive gender transition care...”
No such “right” exists because it requires a subjective decision by another person and involving a minor.
Constitutional rights are spelled out in the Constitution and are absolute.
"Constitutional rights are spelled out in the Constitution and are absolute."
That is not true. The authority (some say "rights") of the federal government, is limited to what is enumerated in our Constitution.
The Bill of Rights *affirm* certain of our rights of people and the states.
All other authority and rights are reserved to the people and their respective states, with the exception that ultimate authority overall of the federal government, all of the states, and all of the people, rests with our Creator, almighty God.
In general, our rights are *not* spelled out, because our Founding Fathers correctly understood that some future government(s) would attempt to limit *us - the people, in addition to our states* to only what was "spelled out" in our Consitution.
The principle of enumeration - limiting government to only being authorized to do what is on a list - has been a basic tool for constructing and maintaining a limited government, thus preserving the freedoms of our people and our states.
When the entire society is insane, BigPharma will have a drug for it.
“That is not true. The authority (some say “rights”) of the federal government, is limited to what is enumerated in our Constitution.”
You are full of shit. I said not a word about the Federal government.
“The Bill of Rights *affirm* certain of our rights of people and the states.”
The Bill of Rights lists rights that are absolute.
Not really, they are just a floor, not a ceiling on our rights. That is why some did not want the Bill of Rights, as it may suggest we have no rights other than those listed.
“When the entire society is insane, BigPharma will have a drug for it.”
Pharma can start with liberal justices. They are bat-crap crazy as evidence by some of their questions this morning.
“...as it may suggest we have no rights other than those listed.”
Cite me one right that is not covered, in principle, under the Bill of Rights.
As they use to tell us in driver’s ed, for example, driving is not a right, it is a privelege that can be taken away.
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