The Tennessee law the Supreme Court just upheld did not ban some special kind of transgender medicine. Rather, it denied transgender children access to the same life-saving medicines that doctors will continue to prescribe to cisgender children, who also sometimes need interventions in the development of secondary sex characteristics. The law is about denying basic medical care to transgender children, solely on the basis that they are transgender. This will kill trans children, as I believe it is intended to.
The complicity of virtually every newspaper in pushing the narrative of exceptional transgender medicine rather than the simple question of equal access to medical care paved the way for this decision and for the broader anti-trans hate movement.
It’s heartbreaking.
(By Angela Zimmerman)
(Image Credit: “Protect Trans Dreams”, Noah Grigni)