I just want to make a note of this: US v Skrmetti (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-477_2cp3.pdf). This is a vastly simplified commentary, because the opinion is 118 pages long.
Issue: Is it a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for the State of Tennessee to block hormones which would change the sex of a minor child?
Conclusion: No. Opinion written by Roberts and joined by Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, and partially joined by Alito.
Dissent by Sotomayor, Jackson, and Kagan. Male (but not female) adolescents can receive medicines that help them look like boys, and female (but not male) adolescents can receive medicines that help them look like girls. Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny.
I think the dissenters were listening to this song when they wrote it: Blur - Girls and Boys
Girls who are boys who like boys to be girlsWho do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boysAlways should be someone you really love
My question: Do laws which require men and women to use the bathroom consistent with their biological sex violate the Equal Protection Clause? Can teenage boys demand the constitutional right to shower with teenage girls? (There probably is a Beavis and Butthead cartoon about this).
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