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Daily Mail
19-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Moment squirming Gavin Newsom says the quiet part out loud about trans kids... it's as humiliating as it is shameless
For more than four hours the supremely self-assured governor of California held court, waxing lyrical about his policies, beliefs and vision. Then came the simple yes or no question which stumped him. Should eight-year-old children be given medical treatments to change their biological sex?
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Supreme Court upholds ban on medical treatment for transgender minors
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in a ruling released Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law that bans gender-related medical treatments for transgender minors. The court rejected an argument that the ban violates the Constitution's equal protection clause. The ruling affirmed a previous decision by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals that a Tennessee law banning certain treatments, like puberty blockers and hormone treatments, can remain in place. In the 6-3 decision, delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court said the case carries the weight of 'fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy and propriety' of medical treatments in the 'evolving' field. 'The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound,' Roberts wrote. Roberts said the court's role is to ensure the Tennessee law does not violate the Constitution's equal protection clause and is not subject to heightened scrutiny. He was joined by the other conservative justices, including Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Thomas and Barrett issued separate concurring opinions. 'Having concluded that it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process,' Roberts wrote. The three liberal justices dissented. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, and was joined in full by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and in part by Justice Elena Kagan. Sotomayor argued that the court is authorizing 'untold harm' to transgender children and their families. 'Because there is no constitutional justification for that result, I dissent,' she said. The case stems from a doctor, parents and transgender minors who challenged Tennessee's law. They secured a partial victory at the district court level, when the court ruled transgender youth should have access to treatments that were available to non-transgender peers. The 6th Circuit overturned that decision on an appeal and argued the policy does not promote sex discrimination. The Supreme Court's ruling Wednesday affirmed the circuit court decision. The case could impact around two dozen other states who also have similar gender-related restrictions on treatments, including Utah, and is a setback for some in the LGBTQ+ community who disagree with the Trump administration's actions on transgender issues. Sen. Mike Lee was supportive of the Supreme Court's decision. 'A great victory for America's children and the right of states to protect them,' he said Wednesday in a post on X.
Fox News
20-06-2025
- Health
- Fox News
Doctor who blew whistle on transgender medicine mocks liberal justices' 'insane' dissent in landmark case
Print Close By Kristine Parks Published June 20, 2025 A Texas doctor who was prosecuted after exposing transgender medical treatments being given to children brutally mocked the liberal justices' dissenting opinion in Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti, calling their arguments "insane" and illogical in a scathing thread on X. In a 6-3 ruling Wednesday, the court upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender treatments for minors, with liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor issuing the dissent. Dr. Eithan Haim, a general surgeon who formerly worked at Texas Children's Hospital, blasted the three liberal justices for arguing that the state law discriminated based on sex because "male adolescents can receive medicines that help them look like boys," but females can't access medicines that help them look like boys. "But that's insane," Haim wrote. "These treatments are meant for diagnosable pathologies in order to restore normal physiology." TRUMP DOJ DROPS CASE AGAINST TEXAS DOCTOR WHO BLEW WHISTLE ON TRANSGENDER MEDICINE FOR MINORS "It would be like saying a patient without cancer but 'identifies as having cancer' is being discriminated against because a doctor is refusing to give them chemotherapy," he mocked. He also criticized the liberal justices for claiming the majority opinion "contorts logic" while offering the aforementioned argument. "They have the audacity to claim the majority opinion 'contorts logic' while they rely on anti-logic," Haim wrote. Haim rebuked the justices for behaving as if they were "certified, practicing doctors" while defending puberty blockers, one of the transgender treatments at the center of the high-profile case. After the justices argued that children who identify as a different gender than their "sex identified at birth" should be allowed to take puberty blockers, Haim trashed the declaration as "sheer medical lunacy." "It is not real. It has no basis in objective, observable reality," he chastised. "It has as much legitimacy as your local Voodoo witch doctor - like using a rabbit's foot to treat a hemorrhaging carotid artery." YOUNG WOMAN WHO REGRETS GENDER TRANSITION CELEBRATES SUPREME COURT DECISION ON YOUTH TRANS TREATMENTS Haim accused the justices of not paying attention during oral arguments by citing "debunked" talking points about the safety of puberty blockers from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization that sets standards of care for transgender medicine. "This is the same organization whose legitimacy was completely decimated during the oral arguments," he mocked. Haim also hit the justices for calling "gender-affirming care" a "matter of life and death" for some patients, which, he pointed out, even ACLU attorney Chase Strangio had to admit during oral arguments had no impact on rates of completed suicides. "This is like a judge endorsing a guilty verdict in a murder case after finding out the victim is still alive," he wrote. The doctor said there was even more "anti-logic and WPATH propaganda" from the justices he didn't mention before sounding the alarm about what that means for the justices sitting on the highest court in the nation. "Although we won this case, we should not fail to appreciate the severity of the situation," he warned. "These judges sit on the highest court in our country yet live in a reality informed by fantasy. This is not a good state of affairs," he concluded. Haim was prosecuted by the Biden Justice Department after he leaked documents to the media that revealed Texas Children's Hospital in Houston was performing transgender medical procedures on minors through May 2023. Hospital leadership had announced it had stopped providing sex-change surgeries and puberty blockers the year before, after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ruled it constituted child abuse under state law. He was indicted on federal charges for obtaining protected individual health information for patients that were not under his care and without authorization. The charges were dropped by the DOJ just days after President Donald Trump took office. "The United States has finally agreed to drop the case against Dr. Haim, and the Court just granted dismissal," Marcella Burke, attorney for Eithan Haim, told Fox News Digital in January. "The case has been dismissed with prejudice so that the federal government can never again come after him for blowing the whistle on the secret pediatric transgender program at Texas Children's Hospital." The Supreme Court's press office did not immediately return a request for comment. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Fox News' Kendall Tietz contributed to this report. Print Close URL
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
Fox News
19-06-2025
- Health
- Fox News
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, 26, 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. Mosley told Fox News Digital she wasn't that surprised by the ruling, as she considered the plaintiffs' case weak. "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. 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. "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."
