Of course the media howled.
You could practically hear the collective shriek from CNN to MSNBC to the activist enclaves at NPR and The New York Times. Why? Because the Supreme Court did something utterly radical — it allowed Tennessee to protect children from irreversible medical harm. Shocking, right? A court that sides with science and morality is apparently too much for the professional outrage crowd.
This week’s SCOTUS decision — letting stand Tennessee’s law banning so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors — wasn’t just a legal victory. It was a long-overdue return to common sense. Contrary to the Left’s meltdown, no one lost any “rights.” No one’s existence was “erased.” What happened was that a sovereign state said, “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t let kids amputate healthy body parts and sterilize themselves before they’re old enough to drive.”
And the Court — quietly and correctly — said, “That’s fair.”
Cue the tantrums. Headlines decried it as a “huge setback” for “transgender rights.” But let’s be blunt: there is no constitutional right to abuse children in the name of a social contagion. And that’s what this is — a contagion. Not a settled science, not a civil rights movement — but a runaway freight train of ideology that treats puberty blockers like candy and double mastectomies like getting your ears pierced.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world — the same world the Left usually loves to lecture us about — has already slammed the brakes. The UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and France have all scaled back or banned medical gender transitions for minors. Why? Because their health authorities actually read the data. They looked at the outcomes. They listened to the rising wave of detransitioners who came forward, broken and betrayed.
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But here in the land of the free and the home of the confused, we’ve allowed TikTok influencers and activist doctors to march children down a path of permanent medical damage — all while calling it “care.”
What SCOTUS affirmed — by refusing to block Tennessee’s law — is that states can say no to that madness. They can put a pause on the rush to mutilate minors. They can draw a line that says, “You don’t get to play Frankenstein with a teenager’s body.”
And this isn’t about hate. It’s about health.
Minors can’t get tattoos without parental consent. They can’t buy alcohol or rent a car. They can’t vote, sign legal contracts, or be held responsible for adult decisions — because their brains are still under construction. We know this. Science knows this. But the same people who demand a national age limit on vaping want 12-year-olds to lop off body parts without blinking.
No rational society allows that. And for once, the Supreme Court didn’t either.
The Tennessee law is based on the radical idea that maybe — just maybe — children need protection more than they need validation. That emotional confusion shouldn’t be met with a scalpel. That mental health struggles deserve therapy, not testosterone. That a teenager’s desire to “change genders” is very often a desperate cry to be seen, loved, and helped — not surgically altered.
This law puts kids first. It doesn’t hate them. It protects them from the irreversible.
And it recognizes what every sane adult knows: that kids change. A lot. The majority of children who experience gender dysphoria grow out of it. Most end up content in their biological sex. But those who are rushed into medicalization? Many end up scarred, sterile, and suicidal — often with lawsuits pending.
The corporate media won’t show you those stories. They’re inconvenient. They disrupt the narrative. But you’ll find them in hospital records. You’ll find them in lawsuits. You’ll find them in tearful testimonies from 20-somethings who were told “this is the only way” — and now live with regret.
What SCOTUS did this week was signal that this moral madness doesn’t get to hide behind the Constitution. That state lawmakers — elected by the people — can act to protect their youngest citizens. And if it hurts the feelings of a few radical therapists or blue-haired influencers, so be it.
The loudest voices calling this a “setback for trans rights” have never explained how giving puberty blockers to preteens is somehow liberation. Or why removing a healthy uterus is compassion. Or why protecting kids from irreversible harm is more cruel than permanently altering their development before they’ve even taken the SATs.
Because deep down, they know the truth: this was never about rights.
It was always about control. About power. About bending every institution to serve an ideology that refuses to acknowledge biological reality — no matter the cost.
This week, sanity punched back. Quietly. Firmly. And with the force of constitutional restraint.
Let them howl. Let them rage. Let them light their hashtags on fire.
Because for once, the Court chose the kids.
And that, not the tantrums on Twitter, is the real moral high ground.