Overshadowed by events in Iran and the ICE riots, was a huge decision made by the US Supreme Court a few days ago on a case, United States v. Skrmetti, that was about performing sexual transitions on children:

[T]he Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors in a 6-3 ruling on Wednesday, which halted the left’s push to normalize irreversible barbaric procedures on children under the guise of compassion. This case, United States v. Skrmetti, marks a major win for sanity and a brutal loss for the transgender cult and its allies in the Democratic Party.

It’s a huge win, both for kids who shouldn’t be subjected to life-altering hormones and surgeries before they’re even old enough to drive, vote, or buy ordinary prescription medicines, and for parents across the nation who have found themselves unable to stop their kids being butchered, in some cases even to the point that their kids have been taken off them by the State, plus other criminal and civil actions taken against them.

The court’s three liberal justices – Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – dissented in their entirely predictable manner, rubber-stamping the Trans movement’s “science”.

By contrast, the usually squishy Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the majority opinion, got stuck into the origins of all that, tracing it back to the 1979 formation of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), who started pushing puberty blockers way back in 1989 and recently declared there should be “no age-based barriers” to irreversible procedures like hormone therapy and surgeries.

I’ll repeat that: irreversible procedures that effectively sterilise kids. That’s what these assholes have been pushing and why this case happened.

But it was actually Justice Thomas who really nailed that crap by taking direct aim at the “experts” (throughout the case the ACLU clung to the talking point that “every major medical association” supports child sex changes) in yet another example of why he’s the Left’s most hated Justice:

The implication of these arguments is that courts should defer to so-called expert consensus…
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First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the “wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices.”

Second, contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs, there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children.

Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts’ view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves.

Fourth, there are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance.
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The views of self-proclaimed experts do not ‘shed light on the meaning of the Constitution….Thus, whether ‘major medical organizations’ agree with the result of Tennessee’s democratic process is irrelevant.

BOOM!

As it happens the decision actually did turn on a point of law rather than “medical experts”:

Roberts then methodically dismantled the ACLU’s absurd claim that Tennessee’s law discriminates on the basis of sex. As he put it, the law prohibits these drugs regardless of whether a child is a boy or a girl. “The law distinguishes based on diagnosis, not sex,” Roberts wrote. In other words, it bans a treatment, not a gender.

As you can imagine this upset all the right people, starting with the New York Times – “How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost: The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation“- which Ace nicely summarises:

The article is trying to be nice to their trans allies, but the general thrust is that these people are so isolated in their progressive trans bubbles that they have no idea of what the rest of the country thinks about their extremist crusade to sexually mutilate children.
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It’s a long, long, super-long article….The main point that true-blue Super Liberal Propagandist Nicholas Confessore is making is that the trans movement is extremist and refuses to see any nuance on any issue and is determined to just ride roughshod over all those who question the Strange New World they’re trying to will into being. They went too far in going after the kids like they’re shrimp cocktail at a wedding reception, and by doing so, they have put their own movement and the entire Democrat-Media Party in a precarious place they may not be able to get out of.

Bubbles huh? Of experts no less. There’s been a lot of that with the Left in recent years on many issues. As just a small example here of the missteps that result, the transgender lawyer who argued the case for the ACLU was called “Chase Strangio”. Cool. You can read excerpts from the NYT at Ace’s link that support his synopsis, but here’s some key ones for shits and giggles:

[I]n conversations this year with dozens of legal experts, activists, and other veterans of the fight for L.G.B.T.Q. equality, I encountered deep apprehension that taking Tennessee to the nation’s highest court had been a strategic error — one symptomatic of broader problems.
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Dana Beyer, a physician and longtime trans activist in Maryland. “People know the movement is stuck. They know we’ve gone too far. They know we’ve lost the thread.”….“It’s one of the biggest mistakes in the history of trans activism,” said Brianna Wu, a trans woman…
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Others, however, saw the Skrmetti case as a tragic gamble built on flawed politics and uncertain science.
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Along the road to Skrmetti, some believe, the L.G.B.T.Q. movement drove itself toward a cliff — and took the Democratic Party with it

Uncertain science. Also that last excerpt is juicy goodness and it’s obviously killing the NYT as much as is NYC Mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani. But amidst the amusement of laughing at fanatics, the true evil and extremism of this movement is never far away in the article:

[W]ith Skrmetti, the movement bet its future on a far more fraught question: whether children have a constitutional right to treatments that halt and redirect their physical adolescence….A disproportionate number had other mental-health conditions, such as autism or depression.

Some of Ace’s scathing commentary on this is also not to be missed:

Wait, you mean the public doesn’t overwhelmingly support the sexual mutilation of mentally-ill children with a statistically-unlikely tendency towards autism? You mean, the “bigots” draw the line when you go after the children — a line you cannot help but cross and cross and cross some more because the only thing you care about is getting those children while they’re young?
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Whoa, wait a tic — are you saying the Science is Not Settled on the sexual mutilation of children?
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The Dutch Protocol was quickly abandoned and kids were transitioned just for saying “I’m trans” at a single “consultation.”
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[O]nce you get that parent to agree to mutilate his child, you own that parent for life. He can never even allow himself to suspect the trans extremist cause is anything less than holy.
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These are revolutionaries that seek nothing short of the overthrow of biological and physical reality. And the Democrat-Media Party embraced their madness, and now finds itself tied to them and unable to cut itself free.

Read the whole thing, especially the sections of what an extremist fanatic “Chase Strangio” is.

Moreover, the poor bloody kids who submitted to this shit years ago are old enough to now understand what was done to them, and they’re speaking up:

I’m somebody who went through this as a child, and I’ve seen just how absolutely horrific it is not to just go through the trend, the process of a medical transition, but to do so while you’re still developing….I was put on puberty blockers, a chemical castration drug to stop my puberty, and weekly testosterone injections at the age of 13. And at 15 years old, I underwent an irreversible surgery to remove my breasts. Absolutely no child should ever be given the chance to go through any of this because it is abusive, it’s detrimental to their development, and they deserve better.

That’s Chloe Cole and you have to marvel at the courage of a young woman facing a life where she can now never have kids and will be lucky to find a good man to spend her life with.

I believe that every child in America deserves the chance to grow up whole and to be given the time to do so, and this is a ruling that is going to allow children that time that I never was given.

This may also splinter the LGBTQ+ movement, which should have happened long ago as gay and lesbian kids were basically getting wiped out by what is, paradoxically, a return to the old conservative days of sexuality:

Please, WaPo, stop referring to LGBTQ+ as a monolithic group. Many gay and lesbians do not consider ourselves part of the LGBTQ+. We’ve been turned into pawns for the TQ, who are in turn are destroying the many advances in gay rights over recent decades… I want nothing to do with TQ and I don’t care if they call me transphobic.
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“As a gay man I applaud this decision. The court may be acting in bad faith, they may be hostile to gay rights, but this ruling will help protect gay kids and gender non-conforming kids from this insane gender ideology that suggests that they may have been born in the wrong bodies if they don’t fit some retrograde heterosexual gender role. You can’t argue on one hand that gender is ‘fluid’ and on the other that it is somehow fixed in small children who have yet to experience puberty. This is madness, especially as we know these medical procedures lead to a lifetime of medical issues and a shorter lifespan. Only an adult can make these decisions for themselves.”

Meanwhile in Britain of all places, are yet more signs that the Trans insanity has peaked.