This is a headgum podcast.

Well, Pride Month has been over for a couple weeks, so I've moved on to the next deadly sin.

July is gluttony month.

I started eating hot dogs on July 4th, and I had not stopped, baby.

And, you know, all that eating helped distract me from the fact that this year's Pride Month

kind of sucked because it brought us

the worst Supreme Court decision on queer rights in a generation. Yeah, John Roberts really said,

that's right, F-slurs, turn the Lady Gaga off and get back in the closet. In case you missed it,

the Supreme Court's decision in the case United States versus Scrimetti allowed states to ban

gender affirming care for trans youth, and 27 states have now done so.

And this ruling could also set up future court decisions that would ban this type of care

for trans adults as well, or honestly, for anybody.

And that is a bad. Gender affirming care is a widely accepted medical

practice that's supported by basically every medical association in the country and has benefited

countless people and kids. I have a lot of trans people in my life who I really deeply care

about, and I have seen firsthand what a difference in their lives

it can make to medically transition. But the Supreme Court has decided that you, your family,

and your doctor don't get to decide whether that care is right for you. Instead, some dumb

f***ed bigoted lawyer in your state capital gets to decide what happens to your body for you. And now,

there are hundreds of thousands of real kids who either have to travel to a different state to get

the care they need or go without. Let's be clear. These laws are fundamentally about bigotry.

They're not based in any good faith worry about kids or science.

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