Democrats, major medical groups denounce Supreme Court's gender-affirming care ruling [View all]
Source: The Hill
06/18/25 6:05 PM ET
Democratic leaders and professional medical organizations on Wednesday denounced the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld a 2023 Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a decision the high court delivered along ideological lines and one that stands to impact similar laws passed in roughly half the country.
The high court’s three Democratic-appointed justices dissented from the conservative majority. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said Wednesday’s decision “abandons transgender children and their families to political whims.”
“Once again, politicians and judges are inserting themselves in exam rooms,” Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the nation’s first openly transgender member of Congress, said Wednesday on the social platform X. “This ruling undermines doctors in delivering care to some of the most vulnerable patients in our country.”
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), whose grandson is transgender, said the court’s decision may force families living in Tennessee and other states with restrictions on gender-affirming care for youth to leave their homes to “ensure their kids can access medically necessary care.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5358286-democrats-medical-groups-supreme-court-gender-affirming-care-ruling-tennessee/
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