Parents and parent groups, including the one I lead, Our Duty – USA, want our gender-distressed children to grow into adulthood with their healthy bodies intact. We have been waiting years for a case to reach the Supreme Court that will address whether so-called sex change medications and surgeries should be used on children. On December 4, 2024, the Supreme Court is poised to hear oral argument in the United States v. Skrmetti action, a case that will decide whether Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 that bans all medical interventions on children for the purpose of altering their bodies to match their then-current internal sense of their gender, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
While it may be tempting for Donald Trump’s Department of Justice to dismiss this monumental case, he must not.
Should the case be dismissed, it will only prolong the harms on our children. Even if Trump follows through with his promise to sign an executive order revoking any federal funds for gender interventions on children, it will not be enough. Supreme Court precedent is needed to ensure that future administrations do not return to the barbaric practice of irreversibly altering children’s secondary sex characteristics. Parents of gender-confused children cannot wait any longer for the medicalization of children to end. As noted in an opinion just this week from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (terminating the district court’s preliminary injunction that stopped Indiana from enforcing its law prohibiting doctors from performing medical interventions on minors for “gender transition” purposes), Circuit Courts are split on whether it is permissible for states to ban these procedures for minors. The Supreme Court needs to weigh in.
The importance of a decision in Skrmetti cannot be overstated. The decision in the case will reach well beyond whether Tennessee’s ban is unconstitutionally discriminatory. In Skremetti, the Supreme Court must decide whether there is a classification called “transgender children” and whether that classification is a suspect class warranting strict scrutiny, a very limited category that includes immutable characteristics such as race, alienage and national origin. Should the Court decide that being “transgender” is a suspect class in the hierarchy of protections, that will override the immutable, naturally occurring sex classification, which is only a quasi-suspect class receiving intermediate scrutiny. More frightening, if the Supreme Court fails to rule that Tennessee’s ban is constitutional, children will be seen as naturally occurring humans with a mismatch of their body and mind, with gender treatment that creates lifelong dependence on exogenous hormones and the results of genital surgeries being de facto required. Any parent who dares refuse to consent to the interventions can, and will be adjudicated as an abuser or neglectful, even in Red states.
On the other hand, if the Supreme Court rules that children’s gender-confusion is flexible and mutable, placing them outside of the suspect category, parents in Democrat-held states will be more likely to retain custody of their children from ideologically captured child protective services that have been taking children from parents who refuse to transition their children. Additionally, the Court’s decision will mark a giant step forward in protecting sex-segregated spaces and set the stage for the original intent of Title IX to return to every state, not just the Republican states that filed suit. The Court is predicted to set the hierarchy of protected classes, elevating sex above gender identity, a belief system known only to the one claiming the label.
The Trump administration has an exceptional opportunity to enshrine into law that no child is born in the wrong body and that subjecting a child to sterilizing interventions for “gender” purposes is an unacceptable practice in the United States. Should the Democrats regain power, they will be incapable of undoing the Court’s ruling with executive orders or other backdoor methods. A favorable ruling will also aid those challenging state laws that equate gender identity to sex, such as Proposition 1 that recently passed in New York.
The disdain for the transgender agenda crosses all races, ethnicities, and party lines. The Blueprint2024.com’s post-mortem poll shows that swing voters ranked Kamala Harris’ stance on cultural issues – transgenderism in particular – as the third most factor in their decision to vote for Donald Trump. The red wave finally arrived, in large part because parents like me – life-long Democrats who lost or fear losing their children to the transgender movement – voted for Trump. The Trump administration must take advantage of a conservative court that will restore sanity and reestablish that a belief about “gender” is not a suspect classification, that gender identity does not trump immutable, and that gender identity is not an immutable characteristic.
"Trans" isn't an immutable characteristic because of the well documented phenomenon whereby minors who are gender nonconforming (and therefore "trans" in the eyes of their "trans ally" parents and gender-affirming community) or suffering from gender dysphoria (and therefore identify as trans or nonbinary, etc. and must be transitioned or die) desist in adolescence. Most of them are same-sex attracted, which is not trans at all.
Another reason trans isn't an immutable quality is spelled out by Canadian researcher Eliza Mondegreen. She believes that ROGD girls' claims to be trans are a maladaptive response to to the stresses of puberty, sometimes compounded by factors such as autism or co-morbidities. Instead of transitioning, the solution is to treat the underlying problem that is being manifested as gender confusion. Trams activists HATE this idea.
"Trans kids" is an invention of trans activists and trans allies. It is facilitated by the gender indoctrination kids receive in the classroom. Children are eager to please and their grasp of concepts of sex and gender is quasi magical, so second and third graders may get it into their heads that they are nonbinary or even the opposite sex or gender. Parents cater to such delusions for social points among their peers. How cool and open minded they are to turn their little boy into a little girl!
It's not.