Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 5, 2024

U.S. v. Skrmetti - U.S. Supreme Court’s Hearing on Trans Rights:Bigotry Masquerading as Law
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-trans-rights-children-skrmetti

* SCOTUS supermajority: much of oral arguments erasing trans community
* certain to uphold Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care
* trickery:
argue discrim. law at issue not really discrim.
quest. whether group appealing for basic rights/justice really exists
* reject poss. discrimination as constitutional threshold issue

#SCOTUS #US_v_Skrmetti #transphobia #transgenocide

The Supreme Court’s Hearing on Trans Rights Was Bigotry Masquerading as Law

The conservative majority spent much of the oral arguments for US v. Skrmetti trying to erase the trans community.

The Nation
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 5, 2024

Chase Strangio: Trans Lawyer Describes Courtroom Atmosphere in SCOTUS Trans Health Care Case
https://truthout.org/video/trans-lawyer-describes-courtroom-atmosphere-in-scotus-trans-health-care-case

Chase Strangio analyzes the justices’ reactions during the landmark case, which is expected to be decided 2025

Chase Strangio, First Out Trans Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court, on Landmark Trans Healthcare Case
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113601130051935881

#SCOTUS #conservatism #US_v_Skrmetti #Skrmetti
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Trans Lawyer Describes Courtroom Atmosphere in SCOTUS Trans Health Care Case

Chase Strangio analyzes the justices’ reactions during the landmark case, which is expected to be decided next year.

Truthout
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 5, 2024

U.S. v. Skrmetti: John Roberts' Plan to Deny Transgender Rights
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/supreme-court-transgender

* SCOTUS conservative justices suggest science is too hard
* will let state legislatures sidestep U.S. Constitution

https://persagen.org/html/intro_01a.html#/contents

#SCOTUS #US_v_Skrmetti #JohnRoberts
#USConstitution #StateLegislatures #StateCapture #DemocraticBacksliding
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Project2025
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #transgenocide #transphobia #SelfIdentity

John Roberts has a plan to deny transgender rights

Conservative justices suggest the science is too hard—and that they'll let states sidestep the constitution.

Mother Jones
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 5, 2024

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Right to Be Trans, Medical Care, Parents’ Rights, Constitutional Sex Discrimination - the Right to Be Different
https://msmagazine.com/2024/12/05/supreme-court-trans-youth-kids-healthcare-skrmetti-chase-strangio/

* Skrmetti argument indexed remarkable progress:
degree of sophistication about how gender works
range of possible gender identities and expressions

* h/e displayed ignorance & biases that prevail in arena of sex, gender, sexuality

#SCOTUS #US_v_Skrmetti #transgenocide #transphobia #SelfIdentity #antiLGBT #fascism

Conservative Supreme Court to Rule on Right to Be Trans, Medical Care, Parents’ Rights, Constitutional Sex Discrimination—and the Right to Be Different

'I’m here to stand up for my kid,” Brian Williams told me outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 4. Williams and his wife Samantha have been fighting for their daughter—known as L.W. in the legal papers the ACLU filed to challenge Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors—for years. Though difficult to sit through, the two-plus hours of argument in United States v. Skrmetti—a challenge by trans youth, their families, the ACLU, Lambda Legal and the Biden administration to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors—was a nearly perfect distillation of this moment in our gender politics.

Ms. Magazine
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 5, 2024

Chase Strangio, First Out Trans Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court, on Landmark Trans Healthcare Case
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/5/scotus_tennessee_trans_ban_chase_strangio

* SCOTUS poised to uphold TN’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth
* Biden admin./ACLU argued the law is sex discrimination
* right-wing justices appeared to reject that argument

* ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113584395545348713
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113556697644800138

#SCOTUS #conservatism #US_v_Skrmetti #Skrmetti
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Chase Strangio, First Out Trans Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court, on Landmark Trans Healthcare Case

The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth after it heard arguments Wednesday in United States v. Skrmetti. The Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union argued that the law, which bans hormone therapy for transgender children but not cisgender children, is a form of sex discrimination, but right-wing justices who make up the court’s majority appeared to reject that argument. ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, who has now become the first openly transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court, describes the stakes and analyzes the reactions of the justices during the landmark case, which is expected to be decided next year. “It is precisely the role of the courts to step in when the government infringes on the individual constitutional rights of minority groups,” says Strangio. “People are suffering. They just want to be able to live their lives, and this law takes those opportunities away from them.”

Democracy Now!
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

U.S. v. Skrmetti: U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to uphold Tennessee ban on youth transgender care
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/12/supreme-court-appears-ready-to-uphold-tennessee-ban-on-youth-transgender-care

The horrifying implications of the Supreme Court argument on trans rights
https://www.vox.com/scotus/389737/supreme-court-transgender-us-skrmetti-health-care-tennessee

* U.S. Supreme Court appears likely to uphold bans on gender-affirming care
* may gut rules barring all forms of sex discrimination in the process

#SCOTUS #conservatism #US_v_Skrmetti #Skrmetti
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Supreme Court appears ready to uphold Tennessee ban on youth transgender care - SCOTUSblog

This article was updated on Dec. 4 at 4:43 p.m. During almost two-and-a-half hours of debate on Wednesday, nearly all of the court’s conservative majority expressed skepticism about a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teenagers. Three transgender

SCOTUSblog
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

U.S. v. Skrmetti: Right-Wing Justices Help Anti-Trans Lawyer During SCOTUS Hearing
https://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-justices-had-to-help-anti-trans-lawyer-during-scotus-hearing

* 26 U.S. states ban/restriction gender-affirming care for transgender youth
* in some cases trans adults
* SCOTUS justices embrace arguments for maintaining Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth
* ignorant: many refuse to acknow. est. facts about gender-affirming care

#SCOTUS #conservatism #US_v_Skrmetti #Skrmetti
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Right-Wing Justices Had to Help Anti-Trans Lawyer During SCOTUS Hearing on Gender-Affirming Care

The justices seemed to embrace arguments for maintaining Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.

Truthout
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

U.S. v. Skrmetti: Amy Coney Barrett’s ignorant question
https://newrepublic.com/post/189029/amy-coney-barrett-question-supreme-court-transgender-case-hearing

* SCOTUS conservatives: no basic understanding of trans rights
* Coney Barrett: judicial hostility toward 2SLGBTQIA+ esp. trans rights
* defended dissenting justices on Marriage Equality Act
* argued Title IX rights don’t apply to trans people
* Catholic: pers. believes marriage betw. man/woman

#SCOTUS #conservatism #US_v_Skrmetti #Skrmetti #AmyConeyBarrett
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Amy Coney Barrett’s Mind-Boggling Question in Supreme Court Trans Case

Surprise! The conservative Supreme Court justices don’t seem to have any basic understanding of trans rights in this country.

The New Republic
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

United States v. Skrmetti

Lives of Transgender Americans in U.S. Supreme Court’s Hands
https://newrepublic.com/article/189040/supreme-court-rule-transgender-rights

* appears ready to deal savage blow to trans rights
* American Medical Association; American Academy of Pediatrics; other top medical groups support gender-affirming treatments
* Justice Samuel Alito disputes that medical consensus

#SCOTUS #conservatism #US_v_Skrmetti #Skrmetti
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia #transgenocide

The Lives of Transgender Americans Are in the Supreme Court’s Hands

The high court appeared ready to deal a savage blow to the rights and livelihoods of a group that conservatives have spent the year targeting.

The New Republic
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 4, 2024

Transgenocide: U.S. Supreme Court Right-Wing Justices Mull Tossing Constitutional Protections
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trans-case-right-wing-supreme-court-skrmetti

* U.S. v. Skrmetti
* SCOTUS conservative supermajority
* echoes how they dispensed w. abortion rights
* “leave it to the states” approach on trans health care
* legal logic/rhetoric
* could open door to U.S.-wide bans & pot. blow to Equal Protection Clause

#SCOTUS #conservatism #US_v_Skrmetti #Skrmetti
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia #transgenocide

In Trans Case, Right-Wing Justices Mull Tossing Constitutional Protections In Favor Of Feigned Helplessness

In a striking echo of how they dispensed with abortion rights, many right-wing justices Wednesday advocated for a “leave it to the states” approach on trans health care, rhetorical cover for a legal logic that could open the door to nationwide bans and a potential blow to the Equal Protection Clause more broadly.

TPM - Talking Points Memo