Posted on 06/19/2025 8:03:44 AM PDT by Twotone
The Supreme Court gave transgender activists and the gender ideology movement a possible lifeline Wednesday in upholding Tennessee's law prohibiting puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery as treatment options for gender-confused youth, presumably protecting similar laws in half the states: It adopted their language, say opponents of gender ideology.
The 6-3 majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts in Skrmetti v. U.S. repeatedly uses the phrases "transgender boy" and "transgender girl" to describe females who identify as boys and males who identify as girls, respectively, and explicitly specifies what he's doing in a footnote. It also refers to each by opposite-sex pronouns.
Even as it repeatedly emphasizes sex is rooted in biology and chromosomes, the opinion refers at least a dozen times to "sex transition treatments," implying that sex itself and not just sex characteristics can be changed.
Furthering the confusion, Roberts' elaboration on the "but-for causation standard" – used to determine if a person's treatment under the law would change as the opposite sex – led some readers to think Roberts was saying females can become males.
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So what’s the point? Are we saying that sometime in the future, someone will use Roberts’ opinion, to say that transgenders are a protected class under civil rights laws,, or otherwise deserve special treatment under the law?
Justice Roberts was a terrible appointment.
Pretty thin soup or a hook about a sixteenth of an inch ch long for the trans loonies to hang their hat on. The tide is going out in this madness and reliance on those terms in the opinion won’t change that
The inclusion of New World Order/Deep State terminology is intentional, to control the narrative. Thomas, or Alito, would specify sex as biological at birth, and no amount of cosmetic/body mutilation is other than ALWAYS Elective Surgery. It is NOT necessary, except to satisfy sex deviates and their minions. The “changes” do NOTHING to alter sex; they only mutilate body parts, and drug-enhancement administration.
malta’s toadie should have been removed
BEFORE they meddled with satellites to throw an election,
and BEFORE he imposed ObamaCARE
and BEFORE he made sure their coup held.
Roberts is a tool
Justice Roberts was a terrible appointment.”
He sure was. He never should have been the Chief Justice.
Referring to a man whose delusions tell him he’s female as a “transgender woman” makes about as much sense as humoring a delusional man in a straightjacket who insists that he’s the Pope by calling him “Your Holiness”.
Every picture I’ve seen of Roberts he looks scared sh*less. What passes for a smile looks like terror to me.
Yeah, he always has that "deerjack@ss in the headlights" look about him.
Weenie.
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