Liberal justice: the transgender law of Tennessee causes “irrevocable damage”

Judge Sonia Sotomayor castigated six of her colleagues from the Supreme Court in a dazzling dissent on Wednesday for having decided to maintain a law of Tennessee prohibiting specific transgender medical treatment for minors.

Sotomayor said that 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, emitted according to ideological lines, poorly discriminated against minors according to their gender. Liberal justice has made the atypical step to read its dissent from the bench.

Sotomayor, who was appointed to court by former president Barack Obama, said that the majority “refuses to call a cat a cat” and “obscures a classification of sex” to allow the Tennessee bill to resist constitutional tests.

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Chief judge John Roberts and judge Sonia Sotomayor at the American Capitol for the Speech of the State of the Union of President Joe Biden on March 7, 2024. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)

“The will of the court to do it here makes irrevocable damage Equal protection clause And invites the legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sexual classifications in sight, “said Sotomayor.” It also authorizes, without reflection, an unprecedented damage to transgender children and parents and families who love them. “”

The case, which was one of the most closely monitored in the High Court mandate, was born from the Biden administration, pursuing a Bill Tennessee adopted in 2023 to ban puberty blockers and hormone therapy as treatments for minors who identify as transgender.

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The Supreme Court is seen in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC (AP photo / J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Sotomayor, whose dissent has been joined by judges Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, said that doctors would offer such medical treatments based on a patient with gender dysphoria. A law prohibiting this practice requires an increased level of control that the majority of the Supreme Court did not apply, according to Sotomayor.

The demonstrators protest in favor of the rights of young transgender people. (Fox News)

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“The majority subjects a law that clearly discriminates the basis of sex to a simple rational basic review,” wrote Sotomayor. “By withdrawing from the significant judicial examination exactly where it matters most, the court abandons transgender children and their families with political whims. In sadness, I dissipate myself.”

The decision of the Supreme Court effectively authorizes the States which adopt laws such as Tennessee To prohibit certain medical treatments for minors.