Karoline Leavitt rents a decision of the Supreme Court on the transgender prohibition of Tennessee
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The White House praised Thursday The decision of the Supreme Court The fact that a law of Tennessee prohibiting puberty blockers and other treatments for transgender minors have not violated the fourteenth amendment.
During the daily briefing, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said “a huge victory for American children”.
“And this is obviously something that this administration firmly believes that young minor children should not be authorized to be subject to chemical castration and mutilation.”
Leavitt said Trump had signed “very strong decrees” on the subject and that the administration is “grateful” for Nashville’s efforts to protect young people from Tennessee.
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, speaks during the daily press briefing (Getty)
“And we are grateful for The Supreme Court ruled on the side of the law (and) on the side of the protection of American innocent children. “”
The case, US c. Skrmetti was brought by three transgender minors and their families. The Biden administration was able to join as a namesake applicant due to a law allowing the president to be a party to prosecution concerning the equal protection clause.
The general promoter of the time, Elizabeth Prelogar, pleaded for the administration – while later, the Trump administration which followed opposed the position of Biden, but the case continued.
On Wednesday, a 6-3 decision confirmed the TN SB 1, which “prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow” a minor to identify or live as an alleged identity incompatible with the sex of the minor “or to treat the identity” alleged or the distress of a discrepancy between the sex and the assertive identity of the minor “.
Chief judge John Roberts said that the law in question did not classify on any basis that justifies an increased exam “.
“This case leads to the weight of ferocious scientific and political debates on the security, efficiency and convenience of medical treatments in an evolving field,” he said.
The demonstrators in support of transgender rights gather outside the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Alberta, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (Jake Crandall / The Montgomery Advertise via AP)
Attorney General of Tennessee Jonathan Skrmetti – The defendant – said in a statement that the law had been supported by a “bipartite supermajure of elected representatives of Tennessee” who “carefully examined the evidence and voted to protect children from irreversible decisions that they cannot yet understand”.
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“I congratulate the legislature of Tennessee and Governor Lee for their courage Adopt this legislation And support our dispute despite the scouring opposition of the Biden administration, special interest groups LGBT, social justice activists, the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association and even Hollywood, “he said.
Breanne Deppisch and William Mears of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
