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🗓️ 5 December 2024
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0:00.0 | The defendant in a landmark court case determining if states can protect kids from transgenderism |
0:07.1 | explains U.S. v. Scrametti. I'm Elizabeth Mitchell, and this is the Daily Signal, Top News, |
0:12.7 | in 10, for Thursday, December 5th. Yesterday, on top news, we discussed protest outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments in US v. Scrametti. |
0:30.7 | Today, we'll further break down statements from the lawyers and questions from the judges. |
0:35.6 | Does the fact that cross-sex hormones affect children differently based on their sex |
0:40.3 | make it unconstitutional for states to protect minors from transgender medical procedures? |
0:46.0 | This is the key issue of the case heard Wednesday by the Supreme Court, |
0:50.5 | according to Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Scrimetti, |
0:53.5 | a Republican who is the named respondent in United General Jonathan Scrimetti, a Republican who is the named |
0:55.4 | respondent in United States versus Scrimetti. |
0:58.4 | You know, we regulate medicine all the time. The states have been regulating the practice |
1:02.6 | of medicine for hundreds of years, and yet we have this one odd carve-out because boys and girls |
1:08.9 | are different. And that's such a fundamental fact of human |
1:12.2 | existence. It seems hard to see how we could be boxed in and left unable to protect kids |
1:18.7 | just because we happen to have two sexes. United States v. Scrimetti will determine whether |
1:24.7 | states may ban irreversible transgender medical interventions for children. |
1:29.9 | The High Court is asked to rule on the constitutionality of SB1, the Tennessee law that protects children from gender transition procedures. |
1:38.0 | In Wednesday's oral argument, lawyers for the U.S. government and the American Civil Liberties Union contended that the Tennessee law |
1:44.6 | discriminates based on sex because it bans transgender medical procedures only when inconsistent |
1:50.2 | with the patient's birth sex. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Preloger represents the Biden-Harris |
1:56.0 | administration, arguing that so-called puberty blockers are prescribed to boys and girls with early onset |
2:01.4 | puberty. It is thus discrimination to deny puberty blockers based on sex to children with |
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