The Supreme Court confirmed on Wednesday a Tennessee law that prohibits certain attention treatment to affirm the gender for minors.
The Court ruled 6-3, with the president of the Supreme Court John Roberts authorizing the opinion. The three liberal judges of the Dissentted Court.
“This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and political debates about the security, efficacy and ownership of medical treatments in an evolving field,” Roberts wrote. “The voices in these debates pose sincere concerns; the implications for all are deep.”
Roberts wrote that the majority of the court found that Tennessee’s law did not violate the guarantee of equal protection of the fourteenth amendment, and was leaving “questions about their policy to the people, their chosen representatives and the democratic process.”
“The equal protection clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it allow us to decide as we see better. Our role is not to” judge the wisdom, equity or logic “of the law we have before us … but only to make sure that it does not violate the guarantee equally protection of the thirteenth amendment,” he wrote.
The Supreme Court is seen on June 16, 2025 in Washington.
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor read her dissent from the bank.
“By withdrawing from a significant judicial review where it matters most, the court leaves transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, dissent,” he wrote.
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