On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear the Biden-Harris Administration argue against a Tennessee state ban on giving children transgender hormone-blocking drugs and castrating surgeries.
On Wednesday morning, activist Chloe Cole and supporting medical professionals will hold a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court to support Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti as he makes his case for the legislation that blocks such irreversible and mutilating treatments in Tennessee.
Cole, who has spoken around the country, including in Anchorage, had identified as transgender and undergone a double mastectomy before detransitioning to her biological female gender at age 17, said that the Do No Harm nonprofit will hold its rally on the steps of the Supreme Court.
“Tennessee’s age restriction law is being considered by the Supreme Court,” wrote Cole on X. “Does the constitution protect the right of kids to mutilate and sterilize themselves?”
She noted that the case will set precedent for other states that have legislation blocking minors from medical intervention in their gender identity.
The Biden-Harris Administration on 2023 filed the lawsuit against Tennessee for its “Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act.” Biden-Harris says the Tennessee law violates the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
The Alliance Defending Freedom filed an amicus brief in support of Tennessee’s law, saying the states need to “stop experimenting on children.” The group says there is no such part of the Constitution that would support drugging minors with hormone blockers and cutting off their genitals.
“Tennessee lawfully exercised its power to regulate medicine by protecting minors from risky, unproven gender-transition interventions. It is not unconstitutional discrimination to say that drugs can be prescribed for one reason but not another. Weighing risks and benefits, States (and the federal government) draw age- and use-based distinctions for drugs all the time,” the attorney general of Tennessee argued in court.
Alaska has no such laws preventing child sexual mutilation, although 26 other states do. Wasilla Rep. David Eastman could not even get his proposed law prohibiting female genital mutilation to get out of a House committee, and it’s doubtful this type of child-protective bill would ever make it to the governor’s desk.
