The Death Knell

I can't believe that the Supreme Court just said this...

SCOTUS orders judges to revisit decisions on transgender health plans, birth certificates in wake of blockbuster ruling

CNN

By John Fritze and Devan Col

June 30, 2025

The Supreme Court on Monday tossed aside a handful of lower court rulings that sided with transgender Americans, requiring that judges in those cases revisit their decisions in the wake of a blockbuster ruling this month that upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.

The justices upended rulings that blocked state policies excluding coverage for gender-affirming care in state-sponsored health insurance plans. The high court also tossed out an appeals court ruling that went against Oklahoma in a challenge to the state’s effort to ban transgender residents from changing the sex designation on their birth certificates. In a loss for the transgender Americans who sued, those decisions will now be reviewed again.

Lower courts must now review the cases again in light of the Supreme Court’s major decision on June 18 that upheld Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans minors. The 6-3 ruling in US v. Skrmetti steered clear of discussion about other laws involving transgender Americans, but it also did little to protect them in other cases. The court ruled that Tennessee had not discriminated on the basis of sex, which gave the state far more room to regulate medical care.

WTF!!!!!

The court also held that the law did not discriminate on the basis of transgender status.

But three conservative justices – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett – said that they would not require courts to more closely scrutinize other laws that discriminate on the basis of transgender status. While a majority of the court declined to adopt that approach, if those three justices can convince two of their colleagues to agree with that reasoning, it would give conservative states much more leeway to enact laws aimed at trans people, both minors and adults. An estimated 1.6 million Americans over the age of 13 identify as transgender, the court said.

Do you know what this is going to do?

Here is an example... a trans child family moves from Connecticut to Tennessee. Their birth certificate reflexes their true gender and their old one is sealed. What happens? Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution kick in? What happens when a trans child travels to a pro-trans state to get treatment and goes home with a prescription? What happens if I travel from Connecticut to California with a stop over in Nashville... where do I go the bathroom?