I wrote a little bit about the ongoing anti-trans pogrom in America, in light of a 6-3 fascist dominated Supreme Court ruling upholding a Tennessee ban on gender affirming care for trans youth. While everyone agrees that this is a horrible decision that will definitely result in more dead trans kids, a lot of folks are relieved that at least the Roberts Court didn't directly legalize anti-trans discrimination. I'm less sure; the vagueness and disingenuous logic of the fascist majority's ruling in theory can be replicated over and over to deny rights to trans people while pretending the laws you write have nothing to do with trans people at all. Furthermore, this pattern is likely replicable to target other marginalized or disadvantaged groups the fascists want to isolate and repress; particularly I fear, in the context of women's rights and patriarchal domination.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/06/19/on-pogroms-trans-youth-and-the-supreme-court/

On Pogroms, Trans Youth, and the Supreme Court

"This is all basically crass prejudice and transphobic fuckery, delivered by the Roberts 6-3 fascist dominated court with the thinnest veneer of legality and a poison smile towards trans people, and in particular trans youth, in America. The devil is however in the details as always, and it’s ultimately the disingenuous, circular logic employed by the court majority that represents perhaps the greatest danger to equal protection law in the modern history of this country. How exactly do you argue a ban on gender affirming care for trans kids whose drafters specifically state the purpose of the law is to “encourage minors to appreciate their sex,” neither targets transgender people specifically, nor qualifies for sex-based classification? Well if you’re John Roberts, you repurpose some of the worst obsolete rulings in legal history to argue that trans people are not the droids you’re looking for."

#SCOTUS #Fascism #TransRights #AntiTransPogrom #Skrmetti #CivilRights #GOP #JohnRoberts #TransGenocide #TransYouth #MentalHealth

"Meanwhile, who are the people that get arrested all the time for soliciting minors? It’s almost always a pastor or a youth leader, and it’s almost invariably a Republican. ...

This is more blood on the hands of the Roberts Court. In Heller, they sided with the gun people, and they said, 'We need more gun violence. We need more death by gun violence.' In Dobbs, they said, 'We need no abortions. We need pregnant women to die more.' And now this."

#SupremeCourt #Skrmetti #trans #cruelty
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"The Republican Party loves to make it seem like there’s these guys in dresses that skulk around in bathrooms to try to get little girls—whatever it is, I don’t even know what they’re thinking. They’re trying to instill this fear that that’s a situation that actually happens."

~ Greg Olear

#SupremeCourt #Trump #Republicans #Skrmetti #trans #cruelty
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-cruelty-thy-name-is-skrmetti

"This cruelty isn't just an attack on trans youth; it's an attack on all of us. The same forces that seek to erase trans children today will come for the rest of us tomorrow."

~ Azza Cohen

#SupremeCourt #Trump #Republicans #Skrmetti #trans #cruelty
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-rainbow-flag-still-flies-even

"The right wanted to turn these issues — largely non-issues in the vast majority of people’s lives — into Big Issues of Major Concern. They tried for years care of the right-wing noise machine, and that pushed the stories out. Then, however, the people who wanted to make trans kids’ lives an issue convinced some mainstream publications to pick up this as their issue."

#SupremeCourt #Trump #Republicans #Skrmetti #trans #cruelty
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