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"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"
2 weeks ago

"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"

Salon  

The Supreme Court last week appeared likely to support a contentious Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors after more than two hours of oral argument in one of the most pivotal cases for transgender rights in the nation's history. "We think it would be sufficient for the Court to recognize that a law that on its face says you …

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Skrmetti: Conservatives are constructing a bad-faith argument against trans rights at the Supreme Court. It’s worked for them before.
54 years, 11 months ago

Skrmetti: Conservatives are constructing a bad-faith argument against trans rights at the Supreme Court. It’s worked for them before.

Slate  

We’ve seen this movie before: Conservatives defending a state ban on medical care at the Supreme Court claim that their ban isn’t actually a ban, cite European restrictions on the same care that fail to prove their point, and dangle cherry-picked stats about patient regret, with some discussion of eugenics sprinkled in. Thomas wrote in a 2019 concurrence that an …

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Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Trans Youth Health Care
3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Trans Youth Health Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments for the most important transgender rights case it has ever reviewed — one that could have significant consequences on the future of lifesaving gender-affirming care for youth in the country. The Tennessee law, Senate Bill 1, encourages minors to “appreciate their sex” by prohibiting puberty blockers or hormone …

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Dobbs Was Just the Beginning. Now Trans Rights Are Being Tested at the Supreme Court.
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Dobbs Was Just the Beginning. Now Trans Rights Are Being Tested at the Supreme Court.

Slate  

On Dec. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in what is likely to be the most important trans rights case in history. It will have knock-on effects for civil rights jurisprudence that will affect the freedoms and protections of LGBTQ+ Americans, women, medical providers, and parents’ rights to raise their children without interference from the state. Chase Strangio: …

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Parental Rights Face a Surprising Moment of Truth at the Supreme Court
3 months ago

Parental Rights Face a Surprising Moment of Truth at the Supreme Court

Slate  

As a new term of Supreme Court rulemaking approaches, minors’ access to gender-affirming care is on the chopping block. When the 6th Circuit dismissed these two claims, the plaintiffs from Tennessee and Kentucky filed separate petitions for Supreme Court review of the ruling’s reasoning regarding discrimination and parental rights. Indeed, a rising number of red states have recently worked to …

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Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans
54 years, 11 months ago

Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans

Slate  

For many years before S.B. A pregnant woman, the attorney general averred, may be refused a treatment if it “has the potential to harm unborn lives—an issue not implicated” when treating nonpregnant women. “Did Attorney General Ken Paxton tell you you couldn’t get an abortion?” they pressed each woman after pressing them for invasive details about their failed pregnancies. Related …

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