Ten­nessee AG Explains Trans Pro­ce­dure Harms After Defend­ing Ban To SCOTUS

Ten­nessee Attor­ney Gen­er­al Johnathan Skrmet­ti held a press con­fer­ence on the steps of the Supreme Court on Wednes­day after argu­ing in favor of the state’s law defend­ing chil­dren from irre­versible sex change inter­ven­tions, explain­ing that it is about pro­tect­ing kids from med­ical inter­ven­tions that could lead to long-stand­ing harm.

Skrmetti’s com­ments came after he appeared in front of the nation’s high­est court to defend the Ten­nessee law, which was passed after The Dai­ly Wire inves­ti­gat­ed Van­der­bilt University’s child sex change clin­ic.

“This case is about pro­tect­ing kids from the con­se­quences of deci­sions that they can­not ful­ly under­stand,” Skrmet­ti said before explain­ing the risks asso­ci­at­ed with med­ical sex change inter­ven­tions.

“Kids on puber­ty block­ers and hor­mone treat­ments for gen­der dys­pho­ria face seri­ous risks of los­ing their fer­til­i­ty for­ev­er, of los­ing their sex­u­al func­tion for­ev­er, of deal­ing with med­ical con­di­tions for the rest of their lives includ­ing blood clots, tumors, bone den­si­ty dis­or­ders, cog­ni­tive devel­op­ment impair­ment, and oth­ers,” he went on to say.

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“The med­ical­iza­tion of youth gen­der dys­pho­ria has moved very far, very fast over recent years. The num­ber of cas­es has explod­ed. One researcher iden­ti­fied a 4,000% increase in the num­ber of ado­les­cent girls seek­ing hor­mone treat­ment.”

“This explo­sion in cas­es has been dri­ven by ide­o­log­i­cal pres­sure, not by med­ical evi­dence,” Skrmet­ti added.

Cur­rent reports spec­u­late that the Supreme Court is like­ly to side with Skrmet­ti and uphold the Vol­un­teer State’s law pro­tect­ing chil­dren from irre­versible sex change inter­ven­tions, giv­en their lines of ques­tion­ing dur­ing Wednesday’s oral argu­ments.

Chief Jus­tice John Roberts, Jus­tice Amy Coney Bar­rett, and Jus­tice Brett Kavanaugh “all seemed to come down on Tennessee’s side,” an analy­sis in Axios reads, adding that Jus­tices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Ali­to are unlike­ly to oppose the ban.

Kavanaugh gave per­haps the clear­est indi­ca­tion of his posi­tion, point­ing to the strict reg­u­la­tion of these inter­ven­tions in var­i­ous Euro­pean coun­tries and say­ing that the Supreme Court should not “con­sti­tu­tion­al­ize” the ongo­ing med­ical debate.