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“We were told by pastors and Focus on the Family that we had to fix him. Instead, we taught him to hate himself. And when a child is dead, you don’t ever get to repair that,” Linda Robertson said of her late son.
"Exposing students to the 'message' that LGBTQ people exist, the majority says, is enough to trigger the most demanding form of judicial scrutiny," Sotomayor wrote.
It's a terrible ruling but could be worse. And it's not the end.
Sotomayor said the ruling will invite "untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them."
Rulings will come any day in Mahmoud v. Taylor and Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.
In hearing the Mahmoud v. Taylor case, conservatives leaned toward siding with these parents, while liberals wondered what other content parents could opt their kids out of.
Even though conservative justices expressing skepticism about such care, supporters of trans rights say there may be a favorable ruling.
Here's what is at stake in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case about health care for transgender youth.
The court refused to let the Biden administration enforce the rule, which includes protections for transgender students, in 10 states that have sued over it.
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked an Idaho ban on emergency abortions, but Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says the decision "is not a victory for pregnant patients."
The conservative-majority court announced the decision on the last day of its session before justices jetted off on their summer vacation.
A secret deal between Justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy still has implications today.
