Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth
This was a bad decision. And, it proves that the SCOTUS wasn't looking into any facts about gender affirming care. They were only looking at the law itself.
Photo and some text courtesy of AP News.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts.
The justices’ order Monday allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years in prison if they provide hormones, puberty blockers or other gender-affirming care to people under age 18. Under the court’s order, the two transgender teens who sued to challenge the law still will be able to obtain care.
This is a huge step backwards for gender affirming healthcare. It also shows that not one of the justices took time to read or study any information on the benefits of gender affirming healthcare. I hope that they heard the lawyers for the two teens that were allowed to continue with their gender affirming healthcare.
“Lawyers for the teens wrote in court papers that the teens’ “gender dysphoria has been dramatically alleviated as a result of puberty blockers and estrogen therapy.”