LEXINGTON, KY – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Tennessee’s Help Not Harm law, which protects kids from receiving life-altering gender “transition” interventions. In a 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, the Court rejected arguments from LGBT advocates that the Fourteenth Amendment creates a right for mutilate kids in the name of radical gender ideology.
The Supreme Court’s decision to review the law followed a Sixth Circuit ruling in favor of Tennessee’s and Kentucky’s laws prohibiting such procedures. The Family Foundation, along with several allied family policy organizations, joined an amicus brief supporting Tennessee’s protections for children against life-altering gender “transition” interventions that physically mutilate and disorder their healthy bodies. This decision ensures states like Kentucky may continue to protect kids from permanent mutilation.
Statement from David Walls, Executive Director of The Family Foundation:
“This is a historic victory for protecting children, and we are grateful that the Supreme Court embraced common sense in today’s ruling in Skrmetti. For all of human history, the truth that the human person is objectively and profoundly male or female has been the cornerstone of all civilizations. It is not possible for an individual to change his gender, and thankfully kids can be protected from harmful experiments that attempt to do the impossible.
“This ruling will ensure that laws protecting children from permanent chemical and physical mutilation in Kentucky and at least 24 other states remain fully in effect. We urge the remaining states to align themselves with science, morality, and reality by passing similar laws to protect every American child from harmful and evil gender ideology,” Walls concluded.
The group Do No Harm recently released a study that revealed that almost 14,000 children have undergone dangerous transgender procedures, which include mutilating surgeries, cross-sex hormone injections, and puberty blockers. The Family Foundation played an integral role in supporting the passage of Kentucky’s Senate Bill 150 in 2023 and in supporting its commonsense protections for children that ban these dangerous procedures.
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