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Strict Scrutiny

SCOTUS Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

Philosophy, News, Government, Supreme Court, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this emergency episode, Chase Strangio of the ACLU joins the pod to talk about today’s decision in United States v. Skrmetti. Then, Kate, Leah, and Melissa dive deep into the opinion, the various flavors of awful found in the concurrences from the majority, and what this decision might mean more broadly for the future of sex-based discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause.

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1:45.9

Hello and welcome back to strict scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.

1:52.6

We are coming to you today with an emergency episode about the opinions the court released on Wednesday, June 18th. In particular, we are going to talk about United States v. Scrimetti, the case involving a challenge to Tennessee's law that prohibits gender affirming care for transgender

2:01.6

youth. So the Supreme Court upheld that Tennessee law in the decision, and we're going to get into

2:07.3

some of the weeds of the case in a bit, but first we are extremely fortunate to be joined at this time

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