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Samantha

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From: Seattle, WA, USA

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Fallout From the Supreme Court’s Dobbs Ruling Just Hit Trans People

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 … bbs-ruling

Fallout From the Supreme Court’s Dobbs Ruling Just Hit Trans People

    It seemed clear last year what the Supreme Court’s decision to end the right to abortion in Dobbs would mean for other constitutional rights.

    Not all women, for example, were pregnant all the time.)

    And earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit relied on Dobbs to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors under this same logic.

    As the 6th Circuit saw things, though, Dobbs had taken that argument off the table by reviving the reasoning of Geduldig.

    Perhaps, the court suggested, Dobbs had made it easier to pass any kind of sex classification, even when gender identity or abortion wasn’t involved.

    But Dobbs’ embrace of Geduldig—and its role in a new conservative vision of sex and sexuality—is even more telling.