You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about the decision in the U.S. v. Scermetti case before the Supreme Court, with insight from the Koulson Center's attorney.

We're also going to talk about top news stories of the week, including a massacre in Nigeria and the political shootings in Minnesota.

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Well, welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm John Stone Street. We're going to start our program here

right off the bat talking about what I think is a pretty monumental Supreme Court decision,

at least for this term,

but I think in light of the cultural moment we've been in in the last several years, we could argue just as we come up on the 10th anniversary of the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, that

a lot of this traces back to that, but a very important decision by the Supreme Court about a

Tennessee law that banned the so-called medical treatment for gender dysphoria from minors.

So basically banning puberty blockers, banning cross-sex hormones, and banning surgical intervention.

And I wanted to talk about the ends and outs of the case and the ends and outs of the decision, really some fascinating,

concurring opinions and dissents written, as well as the majority opinion by Chief Justice

John Roberts. And really thrilled to invite my good friend and are an attorney attorney for the

Colson Center, Ian Speer, founder of Covenant Law and chief counsel there. Ian, so thanks so

much for joining us on Breakpoint this week. Great to be with you, John. All right, so let's start

here first. There's a little bit of illegal technicality side to this case

in terms of the scope of what Justice Roberts decided upon. Just give us an overview of what this

case was really all about. Yeah, so Scermetti is a case that arises out of Tennessee. It involves

a Tennessee law that's referred to as SB1. The full title is prohibition on medical procedures performed on minors related to sexual identity.

And as you pointed out, this is a law.

There are about 24 states now that have enacted similar laws,

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