The Supreme Court case on healthcare for trans minors
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday, a majority of Supreme Court justices signaled that they were willing to allow states to pass laws limiting access to treatments prescribed for transgender teens. During over two hours of oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, a case challenging a Tennessee law banning gender transition surgeries and the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors, five justices in the court’s conservative majority indicated they were likely to uphold the state’s law. The decision in Skrmetti would likely set a precedent that could affect other challenges to laws regarding transgender sports participation, bathroom use, and access to transgender care for adults.
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| 1:19.6 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, |
| 1:32.5 | and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about a Supreme Court case around |
| 1:38.2 | health care for trans minors. This is, as you can expect, a pretty controversial but also a very interesting Supreme Court |
| 1:46.6 | case. We're going to talk about exactly what's happening, what the arguments are, and I've got |
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