Civil rights lawyer Sam Ames wrote yesterday: What U.S. v. Skrmetti Did, What it Didn’t Do, and What It Can Never Do
I wrote my breakdown of the majority opinion: Trans Kids Shut Out: I Read the SCOTUS Opinion by Justice Roberts
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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An honest accounting might look like, “How the Alliance Defending Freedom bet on the latent bigotry of NYT masthead editors to launder religious intolerance into ‘concern’ about safe and effective medical practices … and won.”
— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“How the people who brought you Dobbs figured out how to get the NYT to carry their water” would be a great story but obvi the Times isn’t going to burn its own sources
— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) June 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Could you imagine the New York Times writing an article saying women were asking for too much with abortion rights and that they went too far? That's effectively what they did here to trans people despite it being the same fight for bodily autonomy.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) June 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Skrmetti was the culmination of a decade long effort to turn the tide back against LGBTQ rights by the far right. They specifically targeted trans people after Obergefell to cleave the community. Now their next target is to overturn Obergefell. That's the end goal. We were a stepping stone to that.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) June 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The gays who thought they were safe and decided to sit out on trans issues or piled on to attack them are going to be in for a rude awakening when Obergefell is overturned in the coming years and same sex marriages are reverted to 2nd class status. They hate gays just as much as they trans people.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) June 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Facts. I’ve been making this argument since they passed SONDA in New York. LGB folks need to protect our trans siblings even if it’s only self serving.
— Sofia Gigante (@cjlillis.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Southern Baptist Convention voted to try to undo same-sex marriage.
Tennessee's youth transition ban is straightforwardly discriminatory. It bans puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries *only* when they are used to affirm a trans identity www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bi...
— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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We saw this in the UK too: All of the allegedly "reasonable" concerns about bone density, low-quality research, lack of long-term follow-up, profits for Big Pharma, etc — magically disappear when it comes to cisgender kids receiving the exact same treatments.
— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Absolutely astounding that it is still controversial to point out that the anti-trans movement is driven by bigotry, not ethics-in-research concerns about children. They keep fucking telling you this to your face!
— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It was the Biden administration's DOJ who decided to pursue this to the Supreme Court, not a trans rights group.
— Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) June 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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I keep seeing the NYT say "how the left lost in trans issues" or "how the trans rights movement lost" with no analysis whatsoever about how they themselves or elected democrats failed. Biden pushed it to SCOTUS, a falsely reported NYT news section piece was cited in that SCOTUS decision.
— Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) June 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We got rat fucked by the NYT specifically but you're not going to read about THAT story in the NYT.
— Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) June 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"The trans rights movement assumed SCOTUS would have actual brains and practice real law but lol, lmao"
— Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) June 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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No, New York Times. That's not what trans people are saying.
— Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com) June 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Read: The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care About The Law Anymore: And the conservative justices don’t think they owe you any answers at all. Paul Blumenthal, HuffPost, Jul 17, 2025
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