01/02/2025
Mira Lazine, writing for the Good News Feed of LGBTQ Nation, reports that several Republican senators have come out with their Democratic opponents in a show of bipartisan support for transgender youth. Mearly 200 Democrats and Republicans wrote amicus briefs asking the Supreme Court to rule in favor of transgender rights in the upcoming L.W. v. Skrmetti case, which challenges Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. It is the first such case that the Supreme Court is hearing. “While the government has a role in keeping kids safe, that role is limited, and it does not justify the State second-guessing the judgments of parents acting in good faith who are best positioned to know what their children need,” the Republican signatories wrote in their brief. “States have no business overruling the decisions of fit parents who make an informed medical choice for their children that is supported by their doctors, by the medical profession more generally, by the children themselves, and by their conscience.” Mira has prepared a full briefing on the implications of Republican support for trans families, and you can view it online at the website of LGBTQ Nation.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/09/democrats-many-republicans-ask-supre...
