The "real media" outlet Axios is sad.
The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to uphold laws that ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
The big picture: Medical authorities in the U.S. largely agree that treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy are safe, but the court's conservative justices indicated they do not want to overrule state laws banning them for children.
Oh? "Authorities" agree on that, huh?
Are these the same authorities who said that isolating and masking 5-year-olds for years was safe, too?
What about the Cass report? Oh, I guess Axios, like the entire criminal media and the Biden Administration, refuse to acknowledge that report.
Driving the news: The court heard oral arguments Wednesday over a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. Roughly half the states have similar laws on the books.
The central question before the court is whether Tennessee is simply regulating the practice of medicine or discriminating on the basis of sex. If it's the latter, the state would have to clear a much higher legal bar to defend its law.
Three key conservative votes -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh -- all seemed to come down on Tennessee's side.
Kavanaugh cited medical disagreements and tight regulations in Europe, arguing that the science of gender-affirming care is unsettled and that the court should not "constitutional-ize" the issue.
"For us to come in and choose one side of that, knowing that either way people are going to be harmed -- there's no perfect way out," he said.
Two other conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, are very unlikely to oppose the bans.
Below, some clips from the hearing.
By the way, when you hear what is clearly a woman's voice answering the Justices in some clips below, know that your ears are lying to you. This woman's voice is actually a man's voice. "Chase" Stangio is totally a man now and his transgender journey is going splendidly.
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The Founders didn't envision AR-15s, but also they wrote transing kids right up in there obvs.
The embarrassingly stupid DEI hire who would flunk an IQ test -- and maybe we should implement a combination IQ/bar review test for judges every year, and start kicking out all the DEI hires who flunk it -- says that banning the sexual mutilation of children is just like banning interracial marriage.
The "wise Latina" who acknowledged she was only appointed to fill a DEI slot says that chopping off a child's healthy organs is no more harmful than taking an aspirin.
The ACLU and the corrupt liar Biden are arguing that "gender identity" is an "immutable" characteristic, which would then protect it at the highest level ("strict scrutiny") under equal protection analysis.
Alito points out that "gender fluid" pyrsyns may change their gender rapidly from one day to the next.
Kind of the exact opposite of an "immutable" characteristic then, right?
I covered the issue more completely and more fairly than Axios.
I guess Elon is right: We are the media now.
(Don't say that to Jim Van Der Hei of Axios -- he's the flouncy soft-wristed sissy who melted down over Elon saying that.)