The Right’s About-Turn on Parental Rights

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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News Commentary, Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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When it comes to gender affirming care for teenagers, parents’ rights no longer matter. Doctors’ opinions no longer matter. Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in United States. v Skrmetti, challenging Tennessee’s ban on healthcare for trans kids, and upending half a century of gender protection doctrine. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, who will also be the first openly trans lawyer to argue at SCOTUS when he argues, alongside the Biden administration, representing the parents and physician of trans adolescents seeking care, in what will be the biggest trans rights case the court has ever heard. Chase and Dahlia dig through the doctrine to reveal the conservative legal movement’s deep hypocrisy when it comes to trans rights as compared to the rights of parents and doctors when it comes to abortion. Want more Amicus? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	Hi and welcome to Amicus.
0:34.4	This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the Supreme Court and Democracy and the law and the rule of law. I am Dahlia Lithwick, and that is my beat at Slate.
0:44.6	To be sure, we have spent a lot of time in recent weeks on the democracy and rule of law part of that equation. But we thought we'd tacked back to the Supreme Court for this
0:56.4	week's show.
0:57.7	In order to preview a case that's being argued next week, United States versus Scermetti
1:03.4	will be heard on December 4th, and it is one of the most important cases on the docket
1:08.8	this term, possibly the most important trans rights
1:12.4	case to make it to the High Court ever. It would have been a vitally important case,
1:18.2	regardless of how the November elections turned out, but with a newly emboldened GOP that comes
1:24.3	into office, having campaigned zealously against transgender rights, the court will
1:29.5	either fan the flames of that animus or provide some kind of break for it. For listeners whose kids,
1:38.0	whose families and loved ones are struggling to adjust to this new reality, the uncertainty is devastating and this show really
1:47.4	is going out with you in our minds. Joining us to walk through the stakes in Scrametti is Chase Strangio,
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