Schumer rips Supreme Court decision upholding state ban on transgender treatments for minors: 'Awful'

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., slammed the U.S. Supreme Court's determination connected Wednesday to uphold Tennessee's prohibition connected transgender "treatments" for minors. 

"This Supreme Court seems to person forgotten that 1 of their jobs is to support idiosyncratic rights and support individuals from being discriminated against. It's an atrocious decision," Schumer told reporters connected Capitol Hill. 

Schumer accused Republicans of trying to infringe connected the rights of transgender youths. 

SCOTUS RULES ON STATE BAN ON GENDER TRANSITION 'TREATMENTS' FOR MINORS IN LANDMARK CASE

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters aft closed-door enactment meetings astatine the Capitol successful Washington, D.C., connected Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

"On the floor, we had a bill, that the Republicans wanted to instrumentality distant these rights," Schumer said. "And we got, I believe, each Democrat voting against it. So it failed due to the fact that it needed 60 votes. So we're going to research each solution." 

Schumer further condemned the Court's 6-3 determination online.

"Republicans’ cruel crusade against trans kids is each an effort to divert attraction from ripping healthcare distant from millions of Americans," Schumer wrote. "We'll support fighting, and we'll support marching on." 

The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), meanwhile, said the majority's determination "helps reconstruct sanity for millions of families crossed America." 

"Boys are boys and girls are girls," RAGA President and Executive Director Adam Piper said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "While Republican AGs crusade against risky, irreversible sex modulation procedures for minors, Dem pander to their utmost donors and slouch towards Gomorrah. We indispensable proceed to support our daughters from men trying to invade their single-sex spaces, privateness and athletic competitions." 

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti – whose bureau handled the defence successful the lawsuit – praised the decision, saying that "the communal consciousness of Tennessee voters prevailed implicit judicial activism." 

"The accelerated and unexplained emergence successful the fig of kids seeking these life-altering interventions, contempt the deficiency of supporting evidence, calls for cautious scrutiny from our elected leaders," he said successful a statement. "This triumph transcends politics. It's astir existent Tennessee kids facing existent struggles. Families crossed our authorities and our federation merit solutions based connected science, not ideology. Today's landmark determination recognizes that the Constitution lets america fulfill society's highest calling – protecting our kids."

The Supreme Court is seen connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

SUPREME COURT APPEARS DIVIDED OVER STATE BANS ON GENDER TRANSITION 'TREATMENTS' FOR MINORS

The lawsuit centered connected Tennessee authorities instrumentality SB1, which restricts enactment modulation treatments for minors for the attraction of sex dysphoria. 

The Tennessee legislature's findings, arsenic elaborate successful the statute, included that specified treatments "can pb to the insignificant becoming irreversibly sterile, having an accrued hazard of illness and illness, oregon suffering from adverse and sometimes fatal intelligence consequences." The Republican-controlled authorities assemblage besides noted that minors "lack the maturity to afloat recognize and appreciate" these consequences and whitethorn aboriginal regret undergoing the treatments and privation to de-transition. 

Writing for the blimpish majority, Justice John Roberts noted that the lawsuit from Tennessee "carries with it the value of fierce technological and argumentation debates astir the safety, efficacy, and propriety of aesculapian treatments successful an evolving field." 

"The voices successful these debates rise sincere concerns; the implications for each are profound," helium wrote. "The Equal Protection Clause does not resoluteness these disagreements. Nor does it spend america licence to determine them arsenic we spot best.

The blimpish justices ruled that SB1 is not taxable to heightened scrutiny nether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. They said the instrumentality incorporates 2 classifications – connected the ground of property and the ground of aesculapian use. 

Protesters for and against transgender attraction of minors show extracurricular the Supreme Court connected Dec. 4, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

"Healthcare providers whitethorn administer definite aesculapian treatments to individuals ages 18 and older but not to minors," Roberts wrote. "Healthcare providers whitethorn administer puberty blockers oregon hormones to minors to dainty definite conditions but not to dainty sex dysphoria, sex individuality disorder, oregon sex incongruence. Classifications that crook connected property oregon aesculapian usage are taxable to lone rational ground review." 

The determination says neither of those classifications turns connected sex. Rather, SB1 "prohibits healthcare providers from administering puberty blockers oregon hormones to minors for definite aesculapian uses, careless of a minor’s sex." 

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All 3 wide justices dissented, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor arguing that the bulk "abandons transgender children and their families to governmental whims."