Schumer Rips Supreme Court Decision Upholding State Ban On Transgender Treatments For Minors: 'awful'

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., slammed nan U.S. Supreme Court's determination connected Wednesday to uphold Tennessee's prohibition connected transgender "treatments" for minors. 

"This Supreme Court seems to person forgotten that 1 of their jobs is to protect individual authorities and protect individuals from being discriminated against. It's an atrocious decision," Schumer told reporters connected Capitol Hill. 

Schumer accused Republicans of trying to infringe connected nan authorities of transgender youths. 

SCOTUS RULES ON STATE BAN ON GENDER TRANSITION 'TREATMENTS' FOR MINORS IN LANDMARK CASE

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters aft closed-door statement meetings astatine nan Capitol successful Washington, D.C., connected Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

"On nan floor, we had a bill, that nan Republicans wanted to return distant these rights," Schumer said. "And we got, I believe, each Democrat voting against it. So it grounded because it needed 60 votes. So we're going to research each solution." 

Schumer further condemned nan Court's 6-3 determination online.

"Republicans’ sadistic crusade against trans kids is each an effort to divert attraction from ripping healthcare distant from millions of Americans," Schumer wrote. "We'll support fighting, and we'll support marching on." 

The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), meanwhile, said nan majority's determination "helps reconstruct sanity for millions of families crossed America." 

"Boys are boys and girls are girls," RAGA President and Executive Director Adam Piper said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "While Republican AGs crusade against risky, irreversible gender modulation procedures for minors, Dem pander to their utmost donors and slouch towards Gomorrah. We must proceed to protect our daughters from men trying to invade their single-sex spaces, privateness and athletic competitions." 

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti – whose agency handled nan defense successful nan lawsuit – praised nan decision, saying that "the communal consciousness of Tennessee voters prevailed complete judicial activism." 

"The accelerated and unexplained emergence successful nan number of kids seeking these life-altering interventions, contempt nan deficiency of supporting evidence, calls for observant scrutiny from our elected leaders," he said successful a statement. "This triumph transcends politics. It's astir existent Tennessee kids facing existent struggles. Families crossed our authorities and our federation merit solutions based connected science, not ideology. Today's landmark determination recognizes that nan Constitution lets america fulfill society's highest calling – protecting our kids."

The Supreme Court is seen connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

SUPREME COURT APPEARS DIVIDED OVER STATE BANS ON GENDER TRANSITION 'TREATMENTS' FOR MINORS

The lawsuit centered connected Tennessee authorities rule SB1, which restricts activity modulation treatments for minors for nan curen of gender dysphoria. 

The Tennessee legislature's findings, arsenic elaborate successful nan statute, included that specified treatments "can lead to nan insignificant becoming irreversibly sterile, having an accrued consequence of illness and illness, aliases suffering from adverse and sometimes fatal psychological consequences." The Republican-controlled authorities assemblage besides noted that minors "lack nan maturity to afloat understand and appreciate" these consequences and whitethorn later regret undergoing nan treatments and want to de-transition. 

Writing for nan blimpish majority, Justice John Roberts noted that nan lawsuit from Tennessee "carries pinch it nan weight of fierce technological and argumentation debates astir nan safety, efficacy, and propriety of aesculapian treatments successful an evolving field." 

"The voices successful these debates raise sincere concerns; nan implications for each are profound," he wrote. "The Equal Protection Clause does not resoluteness these disagreements. Nor does it spend america licence to determine them arsenic we spot best.

The blimpish justices ruled that SB1 is not taxable to heightened scrutiny nether nan Equal Protection Clause of nan Fourteenth Amendment. They said nan rule incorporates 2 classifications – connected nan ground of property and nan ground of aesculapian use. 

Protesters for and against transgender curen of minors show extracurricular nan Supreme Court connected Dec. 4, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

"Healthcare providers whitethorn administer definite aesculapian treatments to individuals ages 18 and older but not to minors," Roberts wrote. "Healthcare providers whitethorn administer puberty blockers aliases hormones to minors to dainty definite conditions but not to dainty gender dysphoria, gender personality disorder, aliases gender incongruence. Classifications that move connected property aliases aesculapian usage are taxable to only logical ground review." 

The determination says neither of those classifications turns connected sex. Rather, SB1 "prohibits healthcare providers from administering puberty blockers aliases hormones to minors for definite aesculapian uses, sloppy of a minor’s sex." 

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All 3 wide justices dissented, pinch Justice Sonia Sotomayor arguing that nan mostly "abandons transgender children and their families to governmental whims."