I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to feeling a surge of quiet comfort about yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling (United States v. Skrmetti) that upholds Tennessee’s ban on transgender surgery and puberty blockers for minors.
I’m not a rightie but a sensible centrist with a colorful, even strident left-liberal history, and yet in my mind the “bad guys” have lost. You can howl all you want, but Matt Walsh is on the right side of this issue.
All I want is for kids to be left alone….unencouraged and un-prodded. When they attain legal maturity at age 18 or 21 or whenever they’re obviously free to choose their own mode of gender expression, and nobody will say squat. Not in my corner, they won’t.
Last week I had a nice 10-minute consultation with a dress-wearing trans person (in her early 30s) who works for the Wilton Library, and I would never, ever want to inject the slightest amount of grief or judgment into this person’s life, but “hey, teacher, leave the kids alone!”
The trans community and its wokey supporters would be relatively uncriticized and un-messed with if they had just left kids out of the equation. But they had to push it.
N.Y. Times‘ Nicholas Confessore: “On Wednesday, the Supreme Court delivered a new, crushing blow, upholding in 6-to-3 decision a Tennessee law that bars doctors from providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery to young people who feel that their bodies are the wrong sex.
“In allowing Tennessee to outlaw blockers and hormones, the court not only shielded similar laws on the books in some two dozen states. It effectively closed the door on extending new constitutional protections to trans people.
“Some advocates fear that Skrmetti could open the door to banning medical transition for adults” — HE would be strongly opposed to this — “and perhaps other health care that some conservatives oppose, like birth control or in vitro fertilization — even vaccines. The fate of a once-obscure medical treatment could have profound consequences for American law.”
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