In a landmark decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state of Tennessee and its Attorney General Jonathan Scermetti, upholding the state's law banning transgender medical procedures on children.

The Sixth Three ruling paved the way for other states to follow Tennessee's lead.

In this episode, we sit down with the Attorney General, as well as a detransitioner

activist, to discuss the precedent-setting case.

I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe.

It's Sunday, June 22nd, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now to discuss the SCOTUS ruling on transgender procedures on children as Tennessee

Attorney General Jonathan Scermetti, whose name is officially on this landmark case. Attorney General,

thank you so much for talking with us. Thank you for me. So we have a major ruling on an extremely

serious and sensitive issue here, child gender transition procedures. You banned it in Tennessee. We had

plaintiffs argue that this was violating the 14th Amendment. Now we have this six to three ruling in

your favor. First, how important was this ruling? This is a really important ruling. This is an issue

that's come up very quickly. It affects an

increasingly large number of kids. And the evidence that keeps coming in shows more and more that

there is a huge risk to kids from these procedures with very little, if any, benefit. So it's really

important that our legislatures be allowed to follow the evidence and do what they need to do to make

sure kids are protected. Now, all the conservative justices ruled in your favor, six to three,

so a really overwhelming victory. I wanted to read from Chief Justice John Roberts, who penned the

court's opinion. He highlights something extremely kind of amazing, actually. So he says, quote,

the plaintiffs contort the meaning

of the term medical treatment. He also writes that notably absent from their framing is a key

aspect of any medical treatment, the underlying medical concern the treatment is intended to address.

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