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TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones

Skrmetti: Trans Healthcare at SCOTUS

TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones

TransLash Media

News, Education, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Transgender, Lgbtq, Trans

4.3619 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court heard arguments in the landmark case of U.S. v. Skrmetti, which takes up the question of gender affirming care access for youth. After attending the oral arguments herself, Imara dissects what she heard in the chambers. First, she sits down with lawyer and co-chair of the National Trans Bar Association D Dangaran to get their immediate reaction and analysis. D explains the debate over different types of scrutiny at play, the role of medical pseudoscience, and the dynamics between the Justices and attorneys. 


Next, Imara talks with Allison Scott, the Director of Impact and Innovation at the Campaign for Southern Equality, about the ongoing fight for trans youth in the South. Allison describes what she’s hearing from families in Tennessee and North Carolina and how her organization has been connecting them with care in increasingly hostile environments. 


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TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media.

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway. 

Xander Adams is our senior sound engineer and a contributing producer.

This episode was engineered with help from Lucy Little.


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0:00.0

And no parent should be told by doctors that their child won't be happy unless they undergo irreversible surgeries.

0:09.0

No child's gender is a mistake because every child is made in the image of God.

0:19.0

Medical decisions.

0:20.0

Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court, on its face, SB1 bans medical care only

0:26.6

when it is inconsistent with a person's birth sex.

0:29.6

An adolescent can receive medical treatment to live and identify as a boy if his birth sex is male but not female. And an adolescent can receive medical

0:39.7

treatment to live and identify as a girl if her birth sex is female but not male. Tennessee claims

0:47.1

this sex-based line drawing is justified to protect children. But SB1 has taken away the only

0:53.8

treatment that relieved years of suffering for each of the

0:57.3

adolescent plaintiffs.

1:04.4

Hey, fam, it's me, Amara. Welcome to the TransLash Podcast, a show where we tell trans stories

1:10.6

to save trans lives. While we at the TransLash Podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

1:13.2

While we at the TransLash podcast hope that you had a restful and restorative Thanksgiving,

1:19.3

that's because after a consequential presidential election, this week, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in a consequential

1:29.8

case, that of U.S. v. Scrametti, which was heard on Wednesday, just the day before

1:36.6

this is getting to your ears.

1:38.5

Now, I was in the chamber to hear the oral arguments in this historic case, which ostensibly is designed to answer the question

1:46.9

of whether or not gender affirming care for trans youths is protected by the Constitution. If the court

1:54.0

rules that it is, then gender affirming care for trans kids will proceed as it does at present.

1:59.5

If they decide that it is unconstitutional, then it could be

2:02.5

banned outright. So that's why I wanted to talk to two people who can help us break all of these

2:07.9

consequences down, what we heard in court yesterday, and begin to just prepare us for this landmark

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