Will Supreme Court Uphold A Trans Youth Healthcare Ban?
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
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Summary
The Supreme Court will hear a landmark case over trans rights today. In U.S. v. Skrmetti, the justices will weigh the constitutionality of a 2023 Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for trans minors. A group of families, a doctor, the Biden Administration, and civil rights groups are challenging the law. Sruti Swaminathan, a staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ and HIV project, talks about what’s at stake in the case.
And in headlines: South Korean President Yoon Suk Seoul reversed his earlier decision to declare martial law, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested he’s open to negotiating a peace deal with Russia, and Iowa officials sued the Biden administration to get the citizenship status of more than 2,000 registered voters.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, December 4th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaddey. The show that didn't steal |
| 0:07.9 | 2,500 pies from a Michelin-starred chef in Northern England. And you can't prove it if we did. |
| 0:18.6 | On today's show, South Korea's president called for martial law and then took it back. |
| 0:24.3 | And Trump's lawyers looked to Hunter Biden's pardon as a defense to drop his hush money case. |
| 0:29.1 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:31.0 | Today, the Supreme Court is taking up a landmark case for trans rights. |
| 0:34.8 | The justices will hear arguments in U.S. versus Scrimetti. The case deals with |
| 0:39.2 | the constitutionality of a 23 Tennessee law that bans gender affirming care for trans minors in the state. |
| 0:45.3 | The law bars treatments like hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and gender transition surgery, |
| 0:49.9 | despite the fact that surgery is almost never performed on minors. Tennessee isn't alone. About |
| 0:55.2 | half of states have similar laws banning gender affirming care for people under the age of 18. |
| 1:00.1 | Most of them are facing lawsuits, too. And major medical groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, |
| 1:05.8 | the Endocrine Society, and the American Medical Association all support gender reforming care. |
| 1:10.8 | The AMA says it's medically necessary health care and that denying it to patients can have |
| 1:15.0 | really dire physical and mental health consequences. |
| 1:18.3 | A group of family is a doctor, the Biden administration, and civil rights groups like the |
| 1:22.2 | ACLU are challenging Tennessee's law. |
| 1:25.0 | ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio was among the lawyers arguing against Tennessee's law before |
| 1:29.3 | the justices today. |
| 1:30.3 | He's also the first openly trans person to ever argue before the court. |
| 1:34.3 | He told democracy now that the law is textbook sex discrimination. |
| 1:37.3 | So if you take, for example, a transgender adolescent boy, he cannot receive testosterone |
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