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Yahoo
12 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Young woman who regrets gender transition celebrates Supreme Court decision on youth trans treatments
A young woman who regrets trying to change her gender as a troubled teenager celebrated Wednesday's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a Tennessee law banning transgender medical treatments for minors. "I'm really grateful," Independent Women's Ambassador Prisha Mosley told Fox News Digital. Mosley, 27, is part of the growing community of young people who are speaking out about their regrets after undergoing medical treatments to treat their gender dysphoria. After being prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone as a teen and having a double mastectomy, Mosley feels medical professionals preyed on her vulnerability and treated her as an "experiment." As an ambassador for the conservative group Independent Women, she's provided testimony advocating for states, including Tennessee, to enact legislation to stop medical providers from assisting in the gender transition of children. Scotus Rules On State Ban On Gender Transition 'Treatments' For Minors In Landmark Case Mosley told Fox News Digital she wasn't that surprised by the ruling, as she considered the plaintiffs' case weak. Read On The Fox News App "The arguments were not good on the side of this type of harm for minors," she recalled. "And their representation from the ACLU had to admit under oath that 'gender-affirming care' does not even reduce the suicide rate for anyone." Mosley has taken legal action against the medical professionals she says pushed her into gender transition as a teen when she struggled with mental illnesses, including anorexia, OCD, suicidal thoughts and trauma from being raped. She was about 16 years old when she started socially transitioning after being convinced by transgender activists online that she was unhappy because her "body was fighting to be a boy." At 17, medical professionals affirmed this belief and quickly put her on puberty blockers and testosterone. The Supreme Court Did The Right Thing. I Know Because I Was Part Of A Horrifying Gender Transition. She later underwent a double mastectomy and now faces chronic pain and major health problems due to these treatments. She's spent the last several years warning others of the dangers and devastating consequences that can result from hormones and sex reassignment surgeries. "They're completely irreversible. It's impossible to actually have a sex change which children are duped into believing they're having by activists, doctors who are lying. And they lie to you along the entire way with euphemisms and a refusal to use actual medical terminology, but a sex exchange never takes place. All you transition into is a less healthy version of yourself with the same problems that brought you to reject your sex," Mosley told Fox News Digital. She dismissed headlines from some media outlets Wednesday decrying the ruling as a "setback" or "new attack" on transgender rights. Detransitioner Slams Trans 'Psuedoscience' That Doctors Said Would Solve Her Mental Distress: 'It's Quackery' "It's insincere," she reacted to the media coverage. "This ruling is good for people, for children who identify as trans too." She argued the law would protect children who've been caught up in a "social contagion" from being pressured into medical treatments that could leave irreparable changes to their bodies. "And in states that have banned this type of care, they're going to be lawfully protected from doctors who would take advantage of them in their vulnerable state while they have strange beliefs and take away their health and their body parts. And it's now lawful to ban doctors from doing that," she continued. At issue in the case, United States v. Skrmetti, was whether Tennessee's Senate Bill 1 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That law prohibits states from allowing medical providers to deliver puberty blockers and hormones to facilitate a minor's transition to another sex. It also targets healthcare providers in the state who continue to provide such procedures to gender-dysphoric minors— opening these providers up to fines, lawsuits and other liability. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court to hear the case on behalf of the parents of three transgender adolescents and a Memphis-based doctor who treats transgender patients. The court upheld the Tennessee law in a 6-3 ruling. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said, "The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best. Our role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of the law before us… but only to ensure that it does not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment. Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process." Fox News' Breanne Deppisch and Bill Mears contributed to this article source: Young woman who regrets gender transition celebrates Supreme Court decision on youth trans treatments
New York Times
a day ago
- Health
- New York Times
Court Leaves States to Decide on Trans Treatments for Minors
The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed to the states control over whether young people should have access to treatments for gender transition, preserving a patchwork of rules that has emerged across the country over the last five years. Since 2021, states have split nearly evenly over whether to prohibit or protect access to puberty blockers and hormone therapies for transgender adolescents. Like the Supreme Court's 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which made access to abortion dependent on which state a person lives in, the decision this week is likely to deepen the state-by-state divide over medical care for young trans people. Just as some states enacted more restrictive abortion limits after Dobbs, states that have enacted partial or total bans on transition treatment for minors may be emboldened to expand on them or enforce them more aggressively, said Brad Sears, a senior scholar at the Williams Institute, a U.C.L.A. program that studies L.G.B.T.Q. legal issues. And just as some states have enshrined reproductive rights in their constitutions, states that have enacted legal shields for health care workers who provide gender-transition treatments may push for more comprehensive protections. 'The reactions to the Dobbs decision are an appropriate place to go to see what might happen next,' Mr. Sears said. 'If you overlay a map of the states with bans and the states with shield laws, you're pretty much seeing two countries.' In some ways, medical providers and families of trans adolescents have already adjusted to a fragmented legal landscape as states passed disparate laws in the absence of an overarching legal decision. In contrast to Dobbs, the decision to uphold a Tennessee law banning treatments for transgender youths did not overturn a constitutional right that had been recognized for decades. In all but two states that have enacted bans, courts have allowed the limits to go into effect even as legal challenges proceeded. That has meant that some of an estimated 100,000 families with transgender children living in states with bans have moved to states that permit treatment. Other families have made arrangements to travel out of state for treatments. Many patients in Southern states where treatments are banned, for instance, travel to Virginia, while those in the Midwest often go to Minnesota. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Washington Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- Washington Post
Supreme Court allows Tennessee ban on gender-transition care for minors
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for states to ban certain gender transition treatments for minors, a polarizing national issue the Trump administration has seized on in initiatives targeting transgender rights. In one of the most high-profile cases of the term, the court's conservative majority upheld a Tennessee law that prohibits minors from using hormones and puberty blockers for gender transition.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Health
- Fox News
SCOTUS rules on state ban on gender transition 'treatments' for minors in landmark case
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Tennessee law banning gender-transition treatments for adolescents in the state is not discriminatory. At issue in the case, United States v. Skrmetti, was whether Tennessee's Senate Bill 1, which "prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow 'a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex' or to treat 'purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity,'" violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the law in question is not subject to heightened scrutiny "because it does not classify on any bases that warrant heightened review." All three liberal justices notably dissented in the case. That law in question prohibits states from allowing medical providers to deliver puberty blockers and hormones to facilitate a minor's transition to another sex. It also targets healthcare providers in the state who continue to provide such procedures to gender-dysphoric minors – opening these providers up to fines, lawsuits and other liability. The court's ruling comes after many other states have moved to ban or restrict medical treatments and procedures for transgender adolescents, drawing close attention to the case. During the oral arguments, justices on the Supreme Court appeared reluctant to overturn Senate Bill 1, with Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggesting that state legislatures, rather than courts, are best equipped to regulate medical procedures. The Constitution leaves such questions "to the people's representatives," Roberts said, rather than to nine justices on the Supreme Court, "none of whom is a doctor." Justice Samuel Alito cited "hotly disputed" medical studies on the alleged benefits of such medical treatments. He also referred to other research from Great Britain and Sweden that reported on the negative consequences teens experienced after undergoing gender transition treatments. Alito told the government's attorney that those studies "found a complete lack of high-quality evidence showing that the benefits of the treatments in question here outweigh the risks." "Do you dispute that?" Alito asked during oral arguments. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, however, countered with evidence from underage individuals that were denied treatment. "Some children suffer incredibly with gender dysphoria, don't they? I think some attempt suicide?" she said. "The state has come in here and, in a sharp departure from how it normally addresses this issue, it has completely decided to override the views of the parents, the patients, the doctors who are grappling with these decisions and trying to make those trade-offs." The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are the petitioners in the case, representing the parents of three transgender adolescents and a Memphis-based doctor who treats transgender patients. The Biden administration had previously joined the petitioners in the case via a federal law that allows the administration to intervene in certain cases certified by the attorney general to be of "general public importance." However, the Trump administration notified the Supreme Court in February that the government would be changing its stance on the constitutionality of the law, saying the Tennessee law does not violate the equal protection clause. Also at issue was the level of scrutiny that courts should use to evaluate the constitutionality of state bans on transgender medical treatment for minors, such as SB1, and whether these laws are considered discriminating on the basis of sex or against a "quasi-suspect class," thus warranting a higher level of scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. That was another focus of the oral arguments in December, as petitioners and respondents battled for more than two hours over the level of scrutiny that the court should apply in reviewing laws involving transgender care for minors, including SB1. Tennessee argued then that its law can still withstand even the test of heightened scrutiny, contending in a court brief that it does have "compelling interests" to protect the health and safety of minors in the state and "in protecting the integrity and ethics of the medical profession." The high court's decision comes at a time when transgender rights are a hotly contested topic. President Donald Trump cracked down on the issue almost immediately after being sworn in to his second White House term in January. Just weeks after his inauguration, Trump signed an executive order preventing biological men from competing in women's sports. The order, titled "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports," was signed on National Girls and Women in Sports Day. It prohibits schools and colleges that receive federal funds and are subject to Title IX from allowing transgender-identifying biological men onto women's sports teams and into women's locker rooms and restrooms. If such institutions fail to comply with the order, they could become subject to investigations and lose federal funds. The Trump administration's policies on transgender rights have inevitably become the targets of legal challenges launched by advocacy groups, medical organizations and individuals who claim they are discriminatory. This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
The Independent
3 days ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Former Conservative MP pleads guilty to harassing ex-wife
A former Conservative MP has pleaded guilty to the harassment of their ex-wife. Katie Wallis, 41, of Butetown, Cardiff, admitted the 'harassment without violence' of Rebecca Wallis between February and March this year, having left her a number of messages and a voice note. Wallisbu was the MP for Bridgend in South Wales from 2019 to 2024. At Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, District Judge Rhys Williams accepted a basis of plea. Wallis pleaded guilty to leaving the messages, but allegations of having driven by their ex-wife's home were removed from the charge. Wallis will next appear before the court on July 14 for sentencing. Narita Bahra KC, appearing for the defence, said her client did not wish to put their former partner, or their children, through anything further. Ms Bahra said a psychiatric assessment and a pre-sentence report would be needed ahead of sentencing. She said this would examine what impact Wallis's gender transition had had on their mental health during the period the offences occurred. Wallis, who was wearing a black cardigan over a white shirt, arrived late to court, having waited for the press to enter the courtroom before they did. The defendant spoke only to confirm their details and enter their plea. Wallis said: 'My preferred name is Katie, but my legal name is still Jamie.' Wallis was released on bail.
