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For over two hours Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a major case over transgender “health care” for minors. The case was centered around the state of Tennessee, who enacted a law in 2023 that bars gender transition surgery for minors as well as puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
The law is being challenged by the Biden administration, as well as by some transgender teens and their families. The families are being represented by ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, a biological woman who now identifies as a man.
The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, appears to be leaning toward upholding the Tennessee law, according to media reports after the hearing concluded.
From the Associated Press:
The court’s three liberal justices seem firmly on the side of the Biden administration and the families who are challenging the Tennessee law.
But it’s not clear that any of the court’s six conservatives will go along. Five conservatives have voiced varying degrees of skepticism of the challengers’ arguments. Gorsuch has yet to say anything.
The Supreme Court justices are not expected to announce their decision for several months. The case could affect similar laws in about 25 other states, over gender transition for minors, sports competitions, and bathroom rules.
Comments by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a liberal Joe Biden appointee, and the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, are already going viral on social media, after she compared gender transitions for children to interracial marriage.
Pointing to a 1967 landmark decision that legalized interracial marriage, Jackson claimed that “everyone seemed to concede that a racial classification was being drawn as a starting point. The question seemed to be whether it was discriminatory.”
“I’m worried that we’re undermining the foundations of some of our bedrock equal protection cases,” she said.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson just compared bans on sex changes for kids to bans on interracial marriage. pic.twitter.com/XOOZRLOI2N
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 4, 2024
Jackson is being blasted on social media for comparing gender transition of children to interracial marriage.
Jackson is the same person who declared during her confirmation hearings that she couldn’t give the definition of what a woman is.
“This is just embarrassing for the Court,” declared former Rep. Matt Gaetz.
This is just embarrassing for the Court
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) December 4, 2024
Daily Signal managing editor Tyler O’Neil wrote, “Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson strains to compare U.S. v. Skrmetti to Loving v. Virginia, suggesting that a law protecting kids from experimental medical “treatments” to make them appear like the opposite sex is similar to a law preventing interracial marriage.”
“No. There is no comparison between protecting kids and allowing them to undergo the natural process of puberty and preventing men and women from marrying due to their skin color.”
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson strains to compare U.S. v. Skrmetti to Loving v. Virginia, suggesting that a law protecting kids from experimental medical “treatments” to make them appear like the opposite sex is similar to a law preventing interracial… pic.twitter.com/7nAQQkZzQD
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) December 4, 2024
“Yes, because banning a white person from marrying a black person is the same thing as cutting off a 10-year-old’s gen*tals,” mocked journalist Collin Rugg.
Yes, because banning a white person from marrying a black person is the same thing as cutting off a 10-year-old’s gen*tals.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 4, 2024
Townhall columnist Spencer Brown wrote, “Did Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who proudly told the world she couldn’t define the term “woman,” really try to say that protecting minors from irreparable mutilation is the same as preventing interracial marriage? Yikes.”
Did Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who proudly told the world she couldn’t define the term “woman,” really try to say that protecting minors from irreparable mutilation is the same as preventing interracial marriage? Yikes.
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) December 4, 2024
Podcast host Clay Travis wrote, “Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just compared Tennessee banning minors from getting transgender surgeries to banning interracial marriage. She is a moron. No lawyer with a functional brain would make this argument.”
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just compared Tennessee banning minors from getting transgender surgeries to banning interracial marriage. She is a moron. No lawyer with a functional brain would make this argument. pic.twitter.com/oPFNyfJiO7
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 4, 2024
How can someone who doesn’t know what a woman is rule on a case involving gender?
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) December 4, 2024
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