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Fox News
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
2024 – 2025 Supreme Court Term In Review
As the end of the 2024-2025 Supreme Court term draws near, so do the decisions of several precedent setting cases. From challenges to birthright citizenship to pornography bans, some hot button topics will have rulings expected to arrive in the coming weeks. Fox News contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University Jonathan Turley, and constitutional lawyer Tom Dupree share their predictions on the outcome of these cases and discuss SCOTUS's recent verdict on gender-transition surgery for minors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Supreme Court backs Missouri, Kansas ban on gender transitions for children
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of Missouri, Kansas and other states seeking to ban gender transition procedures. The ruling in United States v. Skrmetti reflects Missouri's law banning what Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey calls 'gender mutilation' procedures for minors. Bailey says that the state played a pivotal role in the ruling. 16-year-old boy killed in Basehor, Kansas crash: KHP In February, Kansas became the 27th state to ban or restrict such care when after barring federal support for gender-affirming care for youth under 19. Kelly vetoed the bill on Feb. 11, saying it's inappropriate for politicians to infringe on parental rights. One week later, on Feb. 18, the veto was reversed. 'My office has been on the front lines of the fight to stop the mutilation of children in the name of radical gender ideology,' Bailey said. 'Missouri was the first state in the nation to win on this issue, and the Supreme Court's decision affirms what we've said all along: states have both the right and the duty to protect children from these irreversible and experimental procedures.' Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach also released a statement on Wednesday, saying 'This decision is a big win for those of us who want to protect the original meaning of the Constitution. The 14th Amendment equal protection clause in no way prevents states from protecting minors in this contest. The decision also strengthens the state's position regarding Kansas's law. The Kansas equal protection clause must be interpreted in the same fashion as the U.S. equal protection clause. I look forward to defending the law in court.' Suspect dead, trooper injured after shooting in Saline County In the Skrmetti case, Bailey's office says that Missouri led 19 other states in asking the Supreme Court to allow states to ban gender transition practices. 'This is a victory not just for Missouri, but for every state fighting to shield children from irreversible harm disguised as medical care,' concluded Bailey. 'We are proud that the Supreme Court has now adopted the same position we've led on from day one: children deserve protection, not permanent damage. As a father and as Attorney General, I will not rest until every entity harming kids is shut down, every bad actor is held accountable, and Missouri remains the safest state in the nation for children.' Other local leaders joined in as well. U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, R-Kan., shared a statement praising the decision. 'Today was not just a win for basic biology and common sense, but for human decency, sound medicine, and the dignity and safety of children everywhere,' Marshall said. 'As a doctor for over 25 years, I understand the gravity of these harmful so-called treatments radical activists have been pushing on children. They leave permanent scarring, sterilization, and other horrible side effects. Make no mistake, there's more work to do, and I remain committed to eliminating taxpayer-funded transgender procedures on both minors and adults.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Washington Post
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
The ACLU bet big on a trans rights case. Its loss was predictable.
It was clear from oral arguments that the ACLU was going to lose U.S. v. Skrmetti, a challenge to Tennessee's ban on gender transition treatments for minors. But really, it was clear long before that. The plaintiffs were facing six conservative justices who needed to be convinced that such treatments are so compelling — as the litany goes, 'lifesaving, evidence-based and medically necessary' — that states could have no good reason to ban them.
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Young woman who regrets gender transition celebrates Supreme Court decision on youth trans treatments
A young woman who regrets trying to change her gender as a troubled teenager celebrated Wednesday's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a Tennessee law banning transgender medical treatments for minors. "I'm really grateful," Independent Women's Ambassador Prisha Mosley told Fox News Digital. Mosley, 27, is part of the growing community of young people who are speaking out about their regrets after undergoing medical treatments to treat their gender dysphoria. After being prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone as a teen and having a double mastectomy, Mosley feels medical professionals preyed on her vulnerability and treated her as an "experiment." As an ambassador for the conservative group Independent Women, she's provided testimony advocating for states, including Tennessee, to enact legislation to stop medical providers from assisting in the gender transition of children. Scotus Rules On State Ban On Gender Transition 'Treatments' For Minors In Landmark Case Mosley told Fox News Digital she wasn't that surprised by the ruling, as she considered the plaintiffs' case weak. Read On The Fox News App "The arguments were not good on the side of this type of harm for minors," she recalled. "And their representation from the ACLU had to admit under oath that 'gender-affirming care' does not even reduce the suicide rate for anyone." Mosley has taken legal action against the medical professionals she says pushed her into gender transition as a teen when she struggled with mental illnesses, including anorexia, OCD, suicidal thoughts and trauma from being raped. She was about 16 years old when she started socially transitioning after being convinced by transgender activists online that she was unhappy because her "body was fighting to be a boy." At 17, medical professionals affirmed this belief and quickly put her on puberty blockers and testosterone. The Supreme Court Did The Right Thing. I Know Because I Was Part Of A Horrifying Gender Transition. She later underwent a double mastectomy and now faces chronic pain and major health problems due to these treatments. She's spent the last several years warning others of the dangers and devastating consequences that can result from hormones and sex reassignment surgeries. "They're completely irreversible. It's impossible to actually have a sex change which children are duped into believing they're having by activists, doctors who are lying. And they lie to you along the entire way with euphemisms and a refusal to use actual medical terminology, but a sex exchange never takes place. All you transition into is a less healthy version of yourself with the same problems that brought you to reject your sex," Mosley told Fox News Digital. She dismissed headlines from some media outlets Wednesday decrying the ruling as a "setback" or "new attack" on transgender rights. Detransitioner Slams Trans 'Psuedoscience' That Doctors Said Would Solve Her Mental Distress: 'It's Quackery' "It's insincere," she reacted to the media coverage. "This ruling is good for people, for children who identify as trans too." She argued the law would protect children who've been caught up in a "social contagion" from being pressured into medical treatments that could leave irreparable changes to their bodies. "And in states that have banned this type of care, they're going to be lawfully protected from doctors who would take advantage of them in their vulnerable state while they have strange beliefs and take away their health and their body parts. And it's now lawful to ban doctors from doing that," she continued. At issue in the case, United States v. Skrmetti, was whether Tennessee's Senate Bill 1 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That law prohibits states from allowing medical providers to deliver puberty blockers and hormones to facilitate a minor's transition to another sex. It also targets healthcare providers in the state who continue to provide such procedures to gender-dysphoric minors— opening these providers up to fines, lawsuits and other liability. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court to hear the case on behalf of the parents of three transgender adolescents and a Memphis-based doctor who treats transgender patients. The court upheld the Tennessee law in a 6-3 ruling. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said, "The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best. Our role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of the law before us… but only to ensure that it does not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment. Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process." Fox News' Breanne Deppisch and Bill Mears contributed to this article source: Young woman who regrets gender transition celebrates Supreme Court decision on youth trans treatments
New York Times
19-06-2025
- Health
- New York Times
Court Leaves States to Decide on Trans Treatments for Minors
The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed to the states control over whether young people should have access to treatments for gender transition, preserving a patchwork of rules that has emerged across the country over the last five years. Since 2021, states have split nearly evenly over whether to prohibit or protect access to puberty blockers and hormone therapies for transgender adolescents. Like the Supreme Court's 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which made access to abortion dependent on which state a person lives in, the decision this week is likely to deepen the state-by-state divide over medical care for young trans people. Just as some states enacted more restrictive abortion limits after Dobbs, states that have enacted partial or total bans on transition treatment for minors may be emboldened to expand on them or enforce them more aggressively, said Brad Sears, a senior scholar at the Williams Institute, a U.C.L.A. program that studies L.G.B.T.Q. legal issues. And just as some states have enshrined reproductive rights in their constitutions, states that have enacted legal shields for health care workers who provide gender-transition treatments may push for more comprehensive protections. 'The reactions to the Dobbs decision are an appropriate place to go to see what might happen next,' Mr. Sears said. 'If you overlay a map of the states with bans and the states with shield laws, you're pretty much seeing two countries.' In some ways, medical providers and families of trans adolescents have already adjusted to a fragmented legal landscape as states passed disparate laws in the absence of an overarching legal decision. In contrast to Dobbs, the decision to uphold a Tennessee law banning treatments for transgender youths did not overturn a constitutional right that had been recognized for decades. In all but two states that have enacted bans, courts have allowed the limits to go into effect even as legal challenges proceeded. That has meant that some of an estimated 100,000 families with transgender children living in states with bans have moved to states that permit treatment. Other families have made arrangements to travel out of state for treatments. Many patients in Southern states where treatments are banned, for instance, travel to Virginia, while those in the Midwest often go to Minnesota. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
