The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Tennessee law banning medical gender transition for minors, setting a precedent that other states could use to ban chemical and surgical mutilation of children. Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 “prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow ‘a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex’ or to treat ‘purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.’”
BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s law banning genital mutilation of minors under the guise of so-called “trans” surgery.
“The Court’s role is not ‘to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic’ of [the ban on surgically mutilating minors], but only… pic.twitter.com/AC2TZYpXMQ
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 18, 2025
Health facilities and individual practitioners who continue to provide such services face fines, lawsuits and other regulatory actions. The petitioners argued that the law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits discrimination based on any identity markers, such as race, gender, religion, or national origin. The ruling was approved after a 6-3 vote, with the usual suspects dissenting. However, the majority agreed