Live: Unpacking the Skrmetti Decision
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court has upheld a Tennessee law barring gender-affirming care for minors. This is a devastating blow to trans kids and adults across the country, especially in the 25 states that currently have bans on gender affirming care for young people. To unpack the Court’s decision, Imara spoke with award-winning journalist and “Law Dork” writer Chris Geidner in a conversation TransLash Media livestreamed on YouTube. Chris explains the conservative Justices’ reasoning around the question of sex-based discrimination and the implications of this landmark case.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's Mia Mara. Welcome to the TransLedge Podcast, a show where you tell trans stories to save trans lives. |
| 0:14.0 | The Supreme Court of the United States has announced its ruling in the landmark case of U.S. v. Scrimetti, |
| 0:20.0 | which clears the way for |
| 0:21.6 | Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors to remain law. |
| 0:26.9 | To impact this huge decision, which was 6-3 against the trans kids in this case, I hosted |
| 0:32.5 | a live conversation with Chris Geidner of the Law Dork newsletter on our YouTube channel. |
| 0:38.4 | So for all these reasons, we're breaking the usual format to share that conversation with you now. |
| 0:43.4 | It's a little wonky at the start, but at times like this, the details are important, |
| 0:47.8 | and we break it all down so that you know what it actually all means. |
| 0:51.8 | Here's that conversation with Chris. |
| 1:14.1 | Hey there and thank you so much for joining this first ever live video version of the Translash podcast. We're so thrilled that you're here. We're not thrilled why we have to be here, which is, |
| 1:18.9 | of course, to discuss the landmark Scrimetti case, which we will unpack. So that's why we wanted to be |
| 1:26.2 | sure to talk to Chris, who is an award-winning author, |
| 1:29.3 | journalist, and publisher of the popular newsletter, Law Dork, which you need to subscribe to as well. |
| 1:35.4 | With over two decades of experience covering the Supreme Court in major legal developments, |
| 1:40.5 | Chris has become a trusted voice on issues ranging from LGBTQ rights to criminal justice and democracy. |
| 1:47.0 | Chris previously served as the Supreme Court correspondent and legal editor at BuzzFeed News and has written for the New York Times, MSNBC, The Appeal, and Bolt. |
| 1:57.0 | He's also been recognized with multiple national awards, including the GLAD Award and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association's Journalists of the Year. |
| 2:06.7 | Chris, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 2:08.7 | I know you just filed your analysis on Law Dork literally hits in and came on, so thank you so much. |
| 2:16.7 | Yes, so glad to be able to be here and |
| 2:20.5 | talk with you today. Although as you said, like definitely wish I had been reading a different |
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