How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost

The New York Times ^ | June 19, 2025 | Nicholas Confessore

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.

One day last December, a clutch of dark-suited lawyers descended the steps of the Supreme Court to a hero’s welcome. The lawyers, from the American Civil Liberties Union, had that morning joined counterparts from the Biden administration in asking the court to block a Tennessee law that bars doctors from providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery to young people who feel that their bodies are the wrong sex. In the plaza outside the court, L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy groups had turned out hundreds of supporters, who hugged, cheered and waved rainbow and pink-and-blue flags. Club music filled the air, clashing against the country songs blasted by a smaller group of counterprotesters. Photographers roamed, capturing images and videos that would later populate the A.C.L.U.’s social media feeds.

Later, in a private briefing for the group’s top donors, an A.C.L.U. official declared victory. “We set out to deliver a clear message to the Supreme Court that law, science and the court of public opinion are absolutely on our side” she said. “And I have to tell you: Boy did we demonstrate that yesterday.” Another A.C.L.U. executive, posting on Instagram, declared that “HISTORY WAS MADE, Y’ALL!!”— referring not to the case, exactly, but to a different milestone: Chase Strangio, an A.C.L.U. lawyer and burgeoning celebrity of the cultural left, had just become the first openly transgender lawyer to argue before the court. When Strangio himself addressed the crowd that day, the particulars of the case, known as United States v. Skrmetti, receded even further. What mattered more, he suggested, was that after generations at the margin of American life, transgender people had forced the court to reckon with their existence. “Regardless of the outcome in June, trans and nonbinary people have...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.

That's a shame.

[George from New England]

The generation that was never born due to chemical castrations.

[datricker]

Reads like strango got bitch slapped. A real man probably would have won the case, oh noes! Nobody likes the trannies.

[Paladin2]

Most Trans people win a Darwin Award.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Look, if you want to carve up your genitals as an adult, I personally, think you are koo-koo in the head.

But leave the children alone.

[chajin]

The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.

Maybe the movement SHOULDN'T BE MOVING IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SaveFerris]

(How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost)

DEMOCRATS haz a sadz

Of course not. Many DEMOCRATS are now
Godless Reprobates who cannot tell the
difference between MALE and FEMALE.

How can they be trusted with ANYTHING??

That Old Serpent 🐍 called the Devil and Satan is destroying God's Design of MALE AND FEMALE all over the WORLD 🌍🌎🌏

If the people of Earth do not STOP 🛑🛑🛑 supporting these Godless Reprobates all of Human Society will collapse into a Sodom and Gomorrah Abomination of Madness

GODLESS REPROBATES
are at WAR WITH REALITY, BIOLOGY
and a RIGHTEOUS ALMIGHTY GOD

DEMOCRATS put MEN in WOMEN'S BATHROOMS..
DEMOCRATS put MEN in WOMEN'S SPORTS.
DEMOCRATS put MEN IN WOMEN'S LOCKER ROOMS.

TRUTH SOUNDS LIKE HATE TO
THOSE WHO HATE THE TRUTH

Democrats are at War
with Reality, Biology
and Almighty God

That Old Serpent 🐍 called the Devil and Satan
has been busy since before Genesis chapter 19.

Today's Democrats are goats 🐐🐐🐐 doing Satan's works.

Here are but a few examples:

Democrats are at
War with Reality

[BobL]

NEVER FORGET - If most of the RINOs had voted as Democrats during Trump’s first term, we would have lost this case 6-3, as there would now be 6 DEMOCRATS on the Supreme Court, rather than 3, since the Democrats TO A PERSON, voted against all of Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court.

[TornadoAlley3]

Trantifa reaction. Be Safe.

[PoeToaster]

This kind of post suggests to me that you may have a bulletin board at home with people’s photos and home addresses and news articles about them connected with pins and red yarn. Are you ok? Seriously, get help.

[SaveFerris]

Seriously you’re wrong

Get help yourself

[lapsus calami]

 

 

EeYaAaK - I need serious eye bleach after that post. And a visit to therapy - I'm sending you the bill.

 

 

[SaveFerris]

LOL 🤣🤣🤣 - sorry about that

Just showing the world what the
Democrats are doing to the USA

Did you think that we’d EVER have
to explain that a MAN in a dress 👗🥻
is NOT A WOMAN?

It’s unbelievable - yet I MEET people
who defend this garbage 😱😨🤯😲🙀

God bless

[phil00071]

With the help of the NYT and other liberal media, the Democrats will hopefully not realize that the transgender issue is going to cause them more election defeats going forward.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

The democreeps are relentless in their pursuit of peak depravity - think they've surpassed even the hedonistic society of ancient Rome in some aspects. Committing to some things even they wouldn't do.

 

 

[USCG SimTech]

Democrats stumped what children are for if you can’t mutilate or murder them - Babylon Bee

[SaveFerris]

That’s what I say

The Democrats will die
on the Transgender Hill

Abandoning it will tear them apart

Popcorn? 🍿🍿🍿

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The NYT writers loves their fact-avoiding euphemisms, don't they?

"bars doctors from providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery to young people who feel that their bodies are the wrong sex...."

"Young people"? Why use such an ambiguous phrase instead of just using the more precise -- and correct -- "minors" or "children under the age of 18"? Is it because they think if they use "young people", people may believe it is referring to actual adults, and so be more likely to support the author's views?

Such utter crap....

[SaveFerris]

This has become a huge pushback moment in our Society

The ones I DIDN'T post here are outrunning EVERYTHING ELSE - People ARE SHARING and they are LEARNING - Because the Democrats embrace every LGBTQ+ Godless Reprobate agenda from That Old Serpent 🐍 called the Devil and Satan

Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia

Here's what DEMOCRATS do to innocent children - (center picture)