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A Texas doc who was prosecuted aft exposing transgender aesculapian treatments being fixed to children brutally mocked the wide justices' dissenting sentiment successful Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling successful U.S. v. Skrmetti, calling their arguments "insane" and illogical successful a scathing thread on X.
In a 6-3 ruling Wednesday, the tribunal upheld a Tennessee instrumentality banning transgender treatments for minors, with wide Justice Sonia Sotomayor issuing the dissent.
Dr. Eithan Haim, a wide surgeon who formerly worked astatine Texas Children's Hospital, blasted the 3 wide justices for arguing that the authorities instrumentality discriminated based connected enactment due to the fact that "male adolescents tin person medicines that assistance them look similar boys," but females can't entree medicines that assistance them look similar boys.
"But that's insane," Haim wrote. "These treatments are meant for diagnosable pathologies successful bid to reconstruct mean physiology."
Protesters for and against gender-affirming attraction for transgender minors show extracurricular the Supreme Court connected Dec. 4, 2024, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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"It would beryllium similar saying a diligent without crab but ‘identifies arsenic having cancer’ is being discriminated against due to the fact that a doc is refusing to springiness them chemotherapy," helium mocked.
He besides criticized the wide justices for claiming the bulk sentiment "contorts logic" portion offering the aforementioned argument.
"They person the audacity to assertion the bulk sentiment ‘contorts logic’ portion they trust connected anti-logic," Haim wrote.
Haim rebuked the justices for behaving arsenic if they were "certified, practicing doctors" portion defending puberty blockers, 1 of the transgender treatments astatine the halfway of the high-profile case.
After the justices argued that children who place arsenic a antithetic sex than their "sex identified astatine birth" should beryllium allowed to instrumentality puberty blockers, Haim trashed the declaration arsenic "sheer aesculapian lunacy."
"It is not real. It has nary ground successful objective, observable reality," helium chastised. "It has arsenic overmuch legitimacy arsenic your section Voodoo witch doc - similar utilizing a rabbit's ft to dainty a hemorrhaging carotid artery."
A transgender rights protagonist takes portion successful a rally extracurricular the U.S. Supreme Court arsenic the precocious tribunal hears arguments successful a lawsuit connected transgender wellness rights connected December 4, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. ((Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images))
Haim accused the justices of not paying attraction during oral arguments by citing "debunked" talking points astir the information of puberty blockers from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an enactment that sets standards of attraction for transgender medicine.
"This is the aforesaid enactment whose legitimacy was wholly decimated during the oral arguments," helium mocked.
Haim besides deed the justices for calling "gender-affirming care" a "matter of beingness and death" for immoderate patients, which, helium pointed out, adjacent ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio had to admit during oral arguments had nary interaction connected rates of completed suicides.
"This is similar a justice endorsing a blameworthy verdict successful a execution lawsuit aft uncovering retired the unfortunate is inactive alive," helium wrote.
The doc said determination was adjacent much "anti-logic and WPATH propaganda" from the justices helium didn't notation earlier sounding the alarm astir what that means for the justices sitting connected the highest tribunal successful the nation.
"Although we won this case, we should not neglect to admit the severity of the situation," helium warned. "These judges beryllium connected the highest tribunal successful our state yet unrecorded successful a world informed by fantasy. This is not a bully authorities of affairs," helium concluded.
A protester waves a transgender pridefulness emblem extracurricular the U.S. Supreme Court Building connected June 18, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Haim was prosecuted by the Biden Justice Department aft helium leaked documents to the media that revealed Texas Children's Hospital successful Houston was performing transgender aesculapian procedures connected minors done May 2023. Hospital enactment had announced it had stopped providing sex-change surgeries and puberty blockers the twelvemonth before, aft Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ruled it constituted kid maltreatment nether authorities law.
He was indicted connected national charges for obtaining protected idiosyncratic wellness accusation for patients that were not nether his attraction and without authorization.
The charges were dropped by the DOJ conscionable days aft President Donald Trump took office.
"The United States has yet agreed to driblet the lawsuit against Dr. Haim, and the Court conscionable granted dismissal," Marcella Burke, lawyer for Eithan Haim, told Fox News Digital successful January. "The lawsuit has been dismissed with prejudice truthful that the national authorities tin ne'er again travel aft him for blowing the whistle connected the concealed pediatric transgender programme astatine Texas Children’s Hospital."
The Supreme Court's property bureau did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment.
Fox News' Kendall Tietz contributed to this report.
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