The Supreme Court’s latest “cruel blow” could make it a lot harder to win...

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The Supreme Court's latest "cruel blow" could make it a lot harder to win trans rights cases

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Story by Greg Owen (14 July 2025)

Shannon Minter, legal director for the newly rechristened National Center for LGBTQ Rights (NCLR), is once again, under a second Trump administration, confronting an avalanche of anti-LGBTQ+ law, policy, and rhetoric set off by the White House.

LGBTQ Nation: You called the Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v Skrmetti a "cruel blow" to transgender youth and their families. How did the Court get it wrong about the case not being a violation of equal protection under the Constitution?

Well, they developed a very sudden case of amnesia, because five years ago — which is nothing in Supreme Court time — they were very clear in the Bostock decision that discrimination because a person is transgender is necessarily based on sex. They literally said that you can't discriminate against a transgender person without taking their sex into account. They were so clear. It was very logical and very strong.

But here they are with a law that could not more clearly target just the core essence of what it means to be transgender, and this is why even Justice [Samuel] Alito was like, "My majority, I'm not really sure how you're concluding this doesn't target transgender people."

What triggers the activation of this law is a medical treatment that's designed to facilitate a young person who "identifies with or lives with," as they call it, "purported identity inconsistent with their sex." They just threw everything that they said in Bostock out the window.  So, very disappointing.