{"id":2954,"date":"2025-06-23T03:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/06\/au-denounces-christian-nationalist-scotus-decision-on-transgender-health-care-bans\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T03:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:08:56","slug":"au-denounces-christian-nationalist-scotus-decision-on-transgender-health-care-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"AU denounces Christian Nationalist SCOTUS decision on transgender health care bans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser issued the following statement in response to today\u2019s U.S. Supreme Court decision<\/a> in U.S. v. Skrmetti, <\/em>a case involving transgender health care bans:<\/p>\n

Transgender health care bans legislate Christian Nationalist view of gender<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s ultra-conservative justices are allowing Christian Nationalists and their allies to legislate a narrow, religious view of gender that will harm countless children and families. Not only has the court failed to protect America\u2019s children, but this decision will encourage Christian Nationalists to further restrict any and all health care that doesn\u2019t align with their narrow religious beliefs. LGBTQ+ people, women, religious minorities, the nonreligious and other traditionally marginalized communities are particularly at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristian Nationalists have achieved yet another milestone in their decades-long effort to drag our country back in time. We need a national recommitment to church-state separation, which ensures freedom without favor and equality without exception. At Americans United, we will continue to fight for the right of all Americans to live as themselves and believe as they choose, as long as they do not harm others. That includes our gender-nonconforming and transgender family members, coworkers, friends, and neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n

AU joined amicus brief opposing transgender health care ban<\/h3>\n

Americans United joined Kentucky parents of transgender children and civil rights groups in filing a friend-of-the-court brief<\/a> in the case involving the Tennessee ban, explaining that transgender health care bans intentionally discriminate against transgender youth by denying them medications that are prescribed for other youth. These laws do not ban these medications for all minors, but only when they are prescribed for transgender minors. As a result of this discriminatory treatment, transgender youth are unable to obtain the only effective treatment for the severe distress caused by gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n

AU\u2019s brief was among more than 30 friend-of-the-court briefs in which bioethicists, medical providers, medical historians, family law professors, and additional families in states where care has been banned had urged the Supreme Court to rule against bans on essential medical care for transgender adolescents so that families can make the health care decisions that are best for their children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser issued the following statement in response to today\u2019s U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case involving transgender health care bans: Transgender health care bans legislate Christian Nationalist view of gender \u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s ultra-conservative justices are allowing Christian Nationalists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}