{"id":3469,"date":"2026-07-06T04:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2026-07-06T04:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:26:34","slug":"supreme-courts-assault-on-trans-and-intersex-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court\u2019s Assault on Trans and Intersex Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In response to the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling allowing states to ban trans youth and some intersex youth from participating in school sports, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement:<\/p>\n

Today’s decision confirms what trans and intersex advocates have known for some time: we are in the Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em>\/Bowers v. Hardwick<\/em> era of trans rights, which is to say that we have entered a period when the legal recognition and legal protections for trans and intersex people are at an all-time low. As was the case for Black Americans after Plessy <\/em>was rebuked by Brown v. Board of Education<\/em>, and for the LGBTQIA+ community after Lawrence v. Texas<\/em> overturned Bowers, eventually this moment will be seen for what it is: a disgrace, a legal wrong, and a failure of moral clarity for which we must atone. <\/p>\n

We stand in solidarity with trans and intersex people as they face a wave of persecution and hatred much more vast than is commonly recognized. A comprehensive campaign years in the making \u2013 one that includes a raft<\/a> of executive orders and federal rules driven by anti-LGBTQIA+ animus, 797 anti-trans bills<\/a> in 43 states (with exceptions<\/a> impacting intersex youth), efforts to censor<\/a> speech and punish professors, cuts<\/a> to funding for nonprofits that serve LGBTQIA+ people, and shameful kowtowing<\/a> by hospitals \u2013 has endangered the health<\/a>, rights<\/a>, and safety<\/a> of trans and intersex people across the country. <\/p>\n

The anti-trans policymakers and activists have, through their actions and rhetoric<\/a>, made their goal clear: to terrorize trans people and remove them from public life. <\/p>\n

And yet, with today\u2019s decision, the Supreme Court has once again abdicated duty to be a bulwark against state-sponsored persecution of trans and intersex people that is so severe that, according to the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security<\/a>, trans and intersex people are experiencing the early stages of genocide.<\/p>\n

Rather than document this persecutory campaign, the mainstream press has boosted<\/a> anti-trans propaganda in the deceptive name of \u201cscience\u201d and \u201cbalance,\u201d while many Democratic Party leaders are sacrificing trans and intersex people on the altar of political expediency. <\/p>\n

We cannot defeat hatred with equivocation, we cannot mollify fascists, sadists, and bigots, and we cannot fixate on the presumed predilections of \u201cswing voters\u201d when the rights and wellbeing of fellow citizens are under sustained assault. What is needed is simple yet elusive: unshakable support from the broad left. <\/p>\n

Awed and inspired by the courage of trans and intersex people in the face of this mounting threat, we are proud to stand with them, and we are eager to join others ready to bring unwavering fierceness and love to this urgent civil rights struggle. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling allowing states to ban trans youth and some intersex youth from participating in school sports, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: Today’s decision confirms what trans and intersex advocates have known for some time: we are in the Plessy v. Ferguson\/Bowers v. Hardwick era of […]<\/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-3469","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\/3469","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=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}