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Europe Pulls Back On Gender Affirming Care, Anti-LGBTQ Forces In America Take Note.

A few Europeans nations have curtailed gender affirming care for youth and American Conservatives have taken note. (Politico)

When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday in a major fight over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, conservatives defending the law plan to point to an unexpected place as a model: Europe.

Two decades ago, Republicans appeared allergic to foreign influence on the U.S. legal system, decrying Supreme Court decisions that looked abroad — often to Europe — for guidance on culture-war issues like gay rights and the death penalty. By JOSH GERSTEIN, ‘Politico’


The Supreme Court will weigh in on one of the most contentious issues of the last few years and that is Transgender rights. Trans rights for youth have been under particularly heated attack from the far right and the efforts to restrict healthcare for trans youth have been successful in Red States across the country. The far right Supreme Court will now have an opportunity to rule on the issue and advocates for the Trans community are bracing for a curtailment of trans healthcare.