The Supreme Court’s confusing new anti-trans decision, explained
LGBTQ Issues,Supreme Court,Children's Rights,Child Care,Transgender Issues
The Supreme Court handed down a strange set of opinions on Monday evening, which accompanied a decision that largely reinstates Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The ban was previously blocked by a lower court.
None of the opinions in Labrador v. Poe spend much time discussing whether such a ban is constitutional — although Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion does contain some language suggesting that he and Justice Amy Coney Barrett will ultimately vote to uphold the ban.
Rather, seven of the nine justices split into three different camps, each of which proposes a different way that the Court…
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