Sam Smith - It appears that the Supreme Court may treat transgender citizens much as America handled slavery before the Civil War. As the NY Times reported, “Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready on Wednesday to uphold a Tennessee law denying transition care to transgender youth, with some of them saying that judgments about contested scientific evidence should be made by legislatures rather than judges.”
For the Supreme Court to leave such matters up to state legislatures – and nearly a half of them have passed anti-trans laws – is to declare the Constitution applicable only to legal definitions with human rights left up to the states.
It didn’t work for slavery and it shouldn’t work now.
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