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Will Supreme Court Uphold A Trans Youth Healthcare Ban?

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News, Daily News

4.612.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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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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