Bigots

I don't know how any fair-minded person could listen to Chase Strangio* argue the legal points about parents' rights to decide their kids' access to gender-affirming care, which primarily means puberty-blocking hormones, and disagree.

Most of the medications used are exactly the same ones used by other kids with premature puberty. Or if a kid literally begins transition, we're talking about estrogen or testosterone, so the "problem" is not the medications themselves: it's the purpose and the specific people who are being targeted. Which is classic discrimination.

And the reason for the discrimination is based solely on religious beliefs, which makes it a violation of the 1st Amendment. The people who wrote these state laws, and the Supreme Court justices who just voted to uphold the laws, are religious bigots who want their beliefs to apply to everyone.

As Jamelle Bouie said about the ruling on BlueSky:

one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy v. ferguson?

Legal journalist Cristian Farias posted:

If you're not placing today's ruling against gender-affirming care for trans youth in the context of John Roberts' lifelong campaign to suck the life out of the Fourteenth Amendment, and equality for actual humans more broadly, you're doing it wrong.

They're coming for marriage equality next ("those gays are free to marry anyone of the opposite sex, there's no discrimination!"), and who knows what else.

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* Strangio made these points on All in with Chris Hayes last night, but the video is not posted yet. I will add it when I find it.