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American supreme The conservative majority of the court on Wednesday confirmed the ban on the state of Tennessee on the care affirmed by the sexes for minors.
In a 6–3 Decision in United States c. SkrmettiThe judges noted that the law of Tennessee is not unconstitutional. The central question of the case was whether the prohibition of Tennessee violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, which stipulates that the government cannot discriminate individuals according to its race, sex or other characteristics. The decision does not affect states where the states for young people remain legal, but establishes the preceding that states can prohibit this type of treatment.
The trial was brought in court by three transgender adolescents and their parents, as well as a doctor, the Ministry of Justice of the Biden Administration joining the complainants. They argued that the law of Tennessee discriminated against the basis of gender and gender status by refusing medical care to young transgender people available for other minors. This is the first case that the Supreme Court took care of the question of the healing care for minors.
Sex -assembled care includes a variety of medical services intended to help align the body of a person more closely with their gender identity. It can include hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgeries.
Tennessee promulgated its law in 2023, which prohibits health care providers from prescribing drugs or providing surgical procedures affirming sexes to minors whose gender identities are different from their sex assigned to birth. The law excludes procedures which deal with congenital defects or physical injuries, as well as medical care affirming sex for minors whose gender identity complies with their designated sex at birth. This means, for example, that a cisgenre boy suffered from gynecomastia, a hormonal affection that causes an enlarged male breast tissue, could receive medication or undergo surgery to eliminate breast tissues to comply with their gender identity, but a transgender individual could not receive the same treatment for sexist dysmorphia.
Today Decision of the Supreme CourtDelivered by chief judge John Roberts, argues that the law of Tennessee is not discriminatory because it “prohibits health care providers from administering puberty blockers or hormones to a minor to treat gender dysphoria, gender disorder between sexes or incongruence between sexes, regardless of the sex of the minor”. According to judges, the law of Tennessee does not exclude any person from medical treatments according to its transgender status. “On the contrary, it removes a set of diagnostics – dysphoria of trades, disorders of gender identity and inccline between the sexes – of the range of treatable conditions,” said the decision.
Since 2021, more than two dozen states have adopted laws or policies which prohibit or seriously limit the care affirmed by the sexes for people under the age of 18. Many of these states also penalize health practitioners to provide or offer this type of care to minors. According to the Non -profit KFF health policy40% of young trans aged aged 13 to 17 live in a state that has promulgated a policy against the care affirmed by the sexes.
Although several states are confronted with judicial disputes with their prohibitions, the decision of the Supreme Court today means that these laws will probably remain intact.
The main medical organizations – notably the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the World Health Organization – Access to the care of care affirmed by sexes for young transgender and sex of sex, which, according to them, are supported by young people who are supported by young people who are supported by young people who are supported by sexes and transgender young people and scientific proof. A Study from 2022 studied nearly 12,000 young transgender and non -binary young people aged 13 to 24 and found that those who had received hormone therapy affirming sex had lower depression, suicide thoughts and a suicide attempt that those who had not received hormone therapy.
“Today’s decision of the Supreme Court today is a devastating blow for young transgender young people and families who love them,” said Kelley Robinson, president of the human rights campaign, an organization that promotes civil rights LGBTQ +, in a statement. “Families can now have the heartbreaking choice to leave their condition or divide their family, or take large financial burdens, in order to ensure that their children can access medically necessary care.”
