Supreme Court Issues Historic Ruling Allowing States to Ban Gender Treatments on Children

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Supreme Court Issues Historic Ruling Allowing States to Ban Gender Treatments on Children

WASHINGTON / June 24, 2025 – The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling last Wednesday allowing states to ban gender treatments of children (1). The contentious 6-3 decision was the latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate over transgender treatments for underage persons.

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, “Tennessee concluded that there is an ongoing debate among medical experts regarding the risks and benefits associated with administering puberty blockers and hormones to treat gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder and gender incongruence. [The Tennessee law’s] ban on such treatments responds directly to that uncertainty.”

Tennessee Senate Bill 1, originally passed in 2023, prohibits puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery to treat gender dysphoria in children. Since then, evidence has mounted that documents the harmful effects of transgender treatments. In 2024, the authoritative Cass review concluded there was no rigorous evidence regarding the safety of hormonal therapies to treat gender dysphoria in minors (2).

The Court decision, 24 pages in length, was opposed by the three liberal judges. Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the lead in drafting a lengthy 31-page dissent that was joined fully by Jackson and mostly by Kagan.

The dissent consisted of a summary of the research pertaining to the effectiveness of treatments for gender dysphoria. But Sotomayor has no training or experience in medical research, and her summary drew derision and disdain.

Physician Eithan Haim, MD ridiculed Sotomayor’s analysis as “insane” and “sheer medical lunacy.” Haim concluded, “These Judges sit on the highest court in our country yet live in a reality informed by fantasy.” (3)

The origins of the Gender Agenda can be traced back to the writings of feminist Shulamith Firestone who over 50 years ago, acknowledged that the goal of the feminist revolution should be the elimination of the “sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally…The tyranny of the biological family would be broken.” (4)

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