Justice Sonia Sotomayor - Transgender adolescents' access to hormones and puberty blockers... is not a matter of mere cosmetic preference. To the contrary, access to care can be a question of life or death. Some transgender adolescents suffer from gender dysphoria, a medical condition characterized by clinically significant and persistent distress resulting from incongruence between a person's gender identity and sex identified at birth. If left untreated, gender dysphoria can lead to severe anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, self-harm, and suicidality. Suicide, in particular, is a major concern for parents of transgender teenagers, as the lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts among transgender individuals may be as high as 40%. Tragically, studies suggest that as many as one-third of transgender high school students attempt suicide in any given year.
National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest nurses’ union and professional association, today condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Tennessee’s 2023 law restricting minors’ access to gender transition care. The justices’ 6-3 decision stated that Tennessee’s law was not discriminatory, potentially allowing other state bans on transgender care for adults to withstand legal challenges.
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