OPINION:
The U.S. Supreme Court, with a 6-3 voice, upheld a Tennessee law barring health providers from giving puberty blockers and hormone therapies to children for gender transitions (as if that’s a real thing). Moreover, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion that courts ought to stop deferring to so-called medical experts who say transitioning children who want to change sex (as if that’s a real thing) is an act of compassion and kindness.
America ought to take a time-out to say a hurrah for the children and to give a quick prayer of thanks to God.
This transgender madness, brought courtesy of Democrats, leftists and their mad scientists in the medical community, not to mention their adoring secularists in media, has gone on far too long and has left far too many exploited and victimized children in its wake. Even liberal-la-la-land Europeans have pulled back on medical procedures that mess with children’s birth sexes.
Now six justices on the nation’s highest court agree. The other three are lost souls, either ignorant and dismissive of states’ rights and the Tenth Amendment — Tennessee’s S.B. 1, after all, was a state law — or worse, so blinded by the evils of transgender activism they’re quite willing to let minors be the LGBTQ’s pawns and become the decimated and destroyed experiments of the demonic forces that fight God’s domain; that is, His creation of male and female, and only male and female.
“[The] Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent, which was joined by — you guessed it — Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
But saner court voices prevailed.
The case, brought by the prior Biden administration against Tennessee’s law, which had been signed by Gov. Bill Lee in 2023, focused on the argument that banning puberty blockers and hormone therapies to minors is tantamount to sex discrimination.
“Having concluded that it does not,” wrote Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. for the majority, The Hill reported, “we leave the questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives and the democratic process.”
While the court did not consider specifically the matter of gender-transitioning surgeries (as if that’s a real thing) in this case, a ban on these procedures is included in S.B. 1.
And Thomas, in the sole concurring opinion, added this important point: “This case carries a simple lesson: In politically contentious debates over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty, courts should not assume that self-described experts are correct.”
Amen to that.
Let the ripple effect go forth.
More than two dozen other states have bans of various degrees on gender-changing medical procedures (as if that’s a real thing) already on the books. This high court case is going to have a dramatic effect in stopping the left’s abuse of children around the nation. In Tennessee, for example, the fine for medical practitioners who violate S.B. 1 is $25,000. It should be doubled; tripled; quadrupled — more, much more. What price to put on the worst kind of evil, the kind that destroys the youngest and most innocent of society? As Chief Roberts said: States now get to decide the answer to that question.
And all the Democrats and lunatic LGBTQ members who want little kids to have rights to alter their bodies forever and ever — go whahh.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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