Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Transgender Care for Minors

最高法院维持对未成年人跨性别医疗护理的禁令

The Daily

2025-06-20

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The Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling this week that effectively upheld bans on some medical treatments for transgender youth in nearly half of the United States. Azeen Ghorayshi explains the scientific debate over the care, and why the court’s decision leaves families more in the dark than ever. Guest: Azeen Ghorayshi is a reporter covering the intersection of sex, gender and science for The New York Times. Background reading:  The Supreme Court’s decision, allowing Tennessee and other states to ban gender-affirming care for minors, was a crushing blow for the transgender rights movement.“The Protocol” podcast explains where youth gender medicine originated and how it became a target of the Trump administration.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Photo: Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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  • We have some breaking news right now from the Supreme Court that we need to bring in.

  • We're just getting a decision having to do with transgender care for minors,

  • specifically the Supreme Court upholding a Tennessee law restricting gender-affirming care for those minors.

  • The other states out there, 20-plus of them who have these laws,

  • will also take great reassurance that the court is signing off on what they've done.

  • Advocates say today's ruling is a huge setback for trans rights across the country.

  • Hi, my name's Olivia.

  • We live in New Hampshire, and my 11-year-old is likely to be impacted by this Supreme Court ruling.

  • He is on the verge of entering puberty and is likely to not be able to get the gender-affirming therapy that he needs.

  • Now, a lot of people might think, well,

  • 11 years old, how does your child at 11 know anything about this?

  • And the truth of the matter is he has known since he was three years old.

  • And just to briefly share the story, he's all of his meltdowns at this point,

  • her meltdowns would end up in mommy, kill me now, mommy, I want to die.

  • And I really just didn't know.

  • what to do.

  • My husband and I were like at a loss of like, well,

  • what are we doing so wrong that our child just wants to die?

  • We changed pronouns.

  • We allowed him to dress up however he wanted and never again has he had one of those meltdowns.