Tennessee: States have the power to regulate medicine by protecting minors from risky, unproven gender-transition interventions
One of the year’s most consequential cases on the United States Supreme Court docket is set for oral argument tomorrow.under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The Court’s decision, expected in June, will likely set precedent not only for gender-transitioning medical interventions, but also for transgender rights.
Tennessee lawmakers took note and were alarmed. They heard the firsthand accounts of devastated detransitioners who grew to regret these life-altering treatments, and enacted legislation to prohibit them last year.forbids doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to children until they turn 18. Sex-change surgeries for minors are also prohibited by the statute.
“I can’t think of another area of pediatric care,” Dr. Cass remarked, “where we give young people a potentially irreversible treatment and have no idea what happens to them in adulthood.” None of this is applicable to the current case. The Tennessee law not only isn’t about employment, and thus doesn’t involve the same statute, it doesn’t discriminate by sex at all.
Tragically, even the most benign of these therapies can result in permanent sterility and destruction of normal sexual activity. Children are, in truth and by law simply incapable of making decisions on medical care, and in this case, parents are no more qualified.
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