Today will go down in history as the day the US Supreme Court decided to end one of the biggest medical scandals of our time. The high court has ruled 6 to 3 that Tennessee has the authority to maintain its laws to ban sex-change surgeries and drugs for minors, which means all states with similar laws can continue to protect children. The push for these services to be provided is steeped in the lie that it is "gender-affirming care."
As someone who has seen the horrors of these gender procedures up close and personal, I am thrilled. The general public has been bamboozled to believe the trans movement is about love and acceptance. However, the truth is that these medical interventions are barbaric. Rainbows and glitter are no longer able to hide the harm hormones, and surgeries have caused thousands of young people, and the SCOTUS decision sends a strong message that children will be protected. Today, common sense and medical ethics prevail.
I don’t always cheer for more government regulation, but this is an instance where the medical profession can no longer be trusted. The so-called experts on gender medicine, WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health), has proved itself to be an activist organization. The WPATH files, released in March 2024, revealed a radical lack of ethics within their organization, yet all major institutions continued to follow their guidelines anyway. It’s profound that so many US institutions have been captured by the lie that children need their bodies medically altered to cope with discomfort and distress. It’s wild that doctors and therapists continue to believe that children who don’t fit into gender stereotypes should be chemically castrated.
For years, we have been manipulated to believe that kids will die of suicide if they do not get hormones and surgeries. Now, more people have figured out that there is no valid data to support that claim. ACLU lawyer representing the families who wanted the trans procedures in Tennessee, Chase Strangio, admitted this under oath at the hearing. Strangio also identifies as transgender.
Dr. Johanna Olson Kennedy, a California doctor who has led the charge on giving children puberty blockers and hormones, hid her 2015 NIH-funded study for ten years because it did not have the politically expedient results she wanted. It showed there was no improvement in mental health for patients who were given puberty blockers.
Despite leading this study, she and other gender specialists continue to assert that puberty blockers are reversible and are necessary for these children to thrive. Common sense is enough to realize that anything that blocks a child’s puberty cannot be reversible and causes irreparable harm. We also have data that shows puberty blockers cause many complications, like bone density issues, brain swelling, blindness, cognitive impairment, and sexual dysfunction. Chemically castrating a child is not how to help any child grow into a thriving adult. There are many reasons why the US medical establishment should take a pause, as other countries such as Sweden, France, and the UK have done. Thankfully, now SCOTUS has allowed states to do the same.
Chloe Cole, one of the most outspoken young women who was harmed by pediatric gender care, wrote on her X account, “WE DID IT! Moments ago, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s child-protection law in Skirmetti, 6 to 3. My heart is overflowing with gratitude. Every child in America is now safer. Thank you to the state of Tennessee, the parents who never backed down, and every detransitioner who shared the truth. The victory is ours!”
Tennessee representative Jason Zachary wrote, “Well done @AGTennessee and team! Thankful that our legislation protecting children from gender mutilation surgery/puberty and hormone blockers went all the way to SCOTUS. The issue is now settled. There will be no more gender transition surgeries on minors in TN.
Tennessee representative Johnny Garrett wrote, “What a day! This SCOTUS decision sends a message to the entire country-don’t mess with our children.”
I, a licensed therapist, along with countless others, are cheering for the safety and livelihood of America’s children as they are now more protected from the scandal called gender-affirming care.
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger is a licensed therapist with 25 years of experience. She is dedicated to empowering people to question mental health experts. She has authored a “Practical Response to Gender Distress: Tips and Tools for Families,” available on Amazon, and a pro-reality children’s book called “Froggy Girl,” coming July 15, 2025. www.froggygirlbook.com.
