USA is the highest The conservative majority of the court on Wednesday maintained the ban on Tennessee in the field of sex for minors.
IN 6–3 decision in United States against SkrmettiThe judges said that Tennessee’s law is not unconstitutional. The main issue of the case was whether the ban on Tennessee violates the clause equal to the 14th protection, which states that the government cannot discriminate against units based on their breed, sex or other features. The judgment does not affect the countries in which youth care remains legal, but establishes a precedent that countries may prohibit this type of treatment.
The claim was filed with the court by three transgender teenagers and their parents, as well as a doctor, and the Department of Justice of the Biden Administration joined the plaintiffs. They argued that Tennessee’s law was discriminated against by sex and gender status, refusing medical care of transgender youth available to other minors. This is the first matter that the Supreme Court took up the issue of sex for minors.
Sex care includes various medical services aimed at more accurately adjusting the body of a person with his gender identity. It may include hormone therapy, maturation blockers and operations.
Tennessee adopted his right in 2023, which prohibits healthcare providers to prescribe drugs or offering surgical procedures confirming sex for minors whose sexual identity differs from the designated sex from birth. The law excludes procedures regarding birth defects or physical injuries, as well as sexual care for minors, whose sexual identity is in line with the determined sex from birth. This means, for example, that the boy Cisgender with gynecomastia, hormonal condition, which causes enlarged male breast tissue, can receive medicines or undergo surgery to remove chest in order to comply with their sexual identity, but a transgender person cannot receive the same treatment with gender disorders.
Today Supreme Court decisionDelived by the chief judge John Roberts, he maintains that Tennessee’s law is not discriminating, because “prohibits healthcare providers for administering blockers or hormones to any minor to treat sex dysphoria, sexual identity disorders or sexual failure, regardless of sex of a minor.” According to judges, Tennessee law does not exclude any person from medical procedures based on transgender status. “Instead, it removes one set of diagnoses – sex disorder, gender identity disorder and sexual inconsistency – in the scope of treated conditions,” says the ruling.
From 2021, more than two dozen states have adopted laws or policies that prohibit or seriously limit sex care for people under 18 years of age. Many of these states are also punished with healthcare doctors for providing or offering this kind of care for minors. According to Health policy non -Profit KFF40 percent of Trans youth aged 13 to 17 live in a state that introduced policy against sex care.
Although several states have faced legal challenges for their prohibitions, today’s decision of the Supreme Court means that these provisions will probably remain intact.
Leading medical organizations-on the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychiatric Association, American College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists and the World Health Organization-he uses access to upside care and youth diversified by sex and diverse youth, which is supported by scientific evidence. One Test from 2022 He studied almost 12,000 newborn transgender and non -weaves aged 13 to 24 years elderly and stated that those who received sex therapy had a lower depression indicator, suicide thoughts and suicide attempts than those who did not receive hormonal therapy.
“Today’s decision of the Supreme Court is a destructive blow to transgender youth and families who love them,” said Kelley Robinson, president of the human rights campaign, an organization promoting LGBTQ+civil rights. “Families can now make a painful choice to leave their condition, divide their families or take extensive financial burdens to ensure that their children have access to medical care.”