Yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dismissed the horrific and permanently life-altering harmful results of transgender medical procedures on minors by comparing them to the side effects of taking aspirin.
“Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin. There’s always going to be a percentage of the population under any medical treatment that’s going to suffer a harm.”
Her comments came during oral argument of the U.S. v. Skrmetti case, a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender reassignment procedures for minors.
Most people wouldn’t equate a stomach ache with surgical mutilation or chemical castration, including the Texas legislature, which banned the practice last year.
The Texas Supreme Court has already upheld our state’s law. In delivering the opinion of the Court, Justice Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle wrote, “When developments in our society raise new and previously unconsidered questions about the appropriate line between parental autonomy on the one hand and the Legislature’s authority to regulate the practice of medicine on the other, our Constitution does not render the Legislature powerless to provide answers.”
In the U.S. Supreme Court agrees, the laws in 25 states, including Texas, would be protected.
The leftwing media in Texas continues to claim that only the “far right” believes there’s a fundamental biological difference between men and women, but the polls are shifting heavily against that narrative.
According to the Texas Politics Project, a public opinion initiative of the University of Texas, 58% of Texans support the ban on transgender procedures for minors, 63% say the sex listed on a birth certificate should be the only way to define gender, and 68% of Texans believe boys shouldn’t play in girls’ sports in high school or college.
Less than 25% of Texans disagree with those positions. That is what the real fringe looks like.
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