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DoJ subpoenas clinics and doctors who offer gender-affirming care to minors
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/gender-affirming-care-minors
“The Department of Justice will not sit idly by while doctors, motivated by ideology, profits, or both, exploit and mutilate our children.” - Attorney General Pam Bondi
"The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, issued a memo on 22 April saying the justice department would investigate and prosecute those who were providing transgender care to children. The memo instructed federal prosecutors “to investigate all suspected cases of [female genital mutilation (FGM)] – under the banner of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ or otherwise – and to prosecute all FGM offenses to the fullest extent possible”.
"The US Department of Justice said on Wednesday it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to clinics and doctors who offer gender-affirming care to minors.
It was not immediately clear to whom the requests were sent and the kind of information that was requested.
The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, issued a memo on 22 April saying the justice department would investigate and prosecute those who were providing transgender care to children. The memo instructed federal prosecutors “to investigate all suspected cases of [female genital mutilation] – under the banner of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ or otherwise-and to prosecute all FGM offenses to the fullest extent possible”.
Several medical associations have said that transgender care can provide lifesaving treatment for both children and adults, the Guardian has reported. A 2022 study by researchers at Stanford University found better mental health outcomes for transgender people who started receiving hormone therapy as teens compared with those who waited until they were adults.
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Bondi’s April memo said the department would investigate manufacturers and distributors engaged in misbranding by making false claims about the on- or off-label use of puberty blockers, sex hormones or any other drug used to facilitate a child’s gender transition.
The department has yet to file charges against anyone in connection with providing transgender care. Nonetheless, the point of the investigation may be to intimidate those who provide care from doing so.
“It’s meant to have a chilling effect on physicians providing access to necessary care, fearing that it will be characterized as chemical and surgical mutilation of children,” Robin Maril, a law professor at Willamette University, told NBC News in April.
In a 6-3 decision last month, the US supreme court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. In total, 27 states have laws that limit gender-affirming care for minors, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation."
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DOJ Subpoenas Doctors, Clinics Performing Child Transgender Operations
https://archive.ph/XgMH0
Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children
https://archive.ph/oQZKV
DOJ Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics for Performing Transgender Operations
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/doj-subpoenas-doctors-and-clinics-for-performing-transgender-operations/
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/gender-affirming-care-minors
“The Department of Justice will not sit idly by while doctors, motivated by ideology, profits, or both, exploit and mutilate our children.” - Attorney General Pam Bondi
"The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, issued a memo on 22 April saying the justice department would investigate and prosecute those who were providing transgender care to children. The memo instructed federal prosecutors “to investigate all suspected cases of [female genital mutilation (FGM)] – under the banner of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ or otherwise – and to prosecute all FGM offenses to the fullest extent possible”.
"The US Department of Justice said on Wednesday it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to clinics and doctors who offer gender-affirming care to minors.
It was not immediately clear to whom the requests were sent and the kind of information that was requested.
The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, issued a memo on 22 April saying the justice department would investigate and prosecute those who were providing transgender care to children. The memo instructed federal prosecutors “to investigate all suspected cases of [female genital mutilation] – under the banner of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ or otherwise-and to prosecute all FGM offenses to the fullest extent possible”.
Several medical associations have said that transgender care can provide lifesaving treatment for both children and adults, the Guardian has reported. A 2022 study by researchers at Stanford University found better mental health outcomes for transgender people who started receiving hormone therapy as teens compared with those who waited until they were adults.
skip past newsletter promotion
Bondi’s April memo said the department would investigate manufacturers and distributors engaged in misbranding by making false claims about the on- or off-label use of puberty blockers, sex hormones or any other drug used to facilitate a child’s gender transition.
The department has yet to file charges against anyone in connection with providing transgender care. Nonetheless, the point of the investigation may be to intimidate those who provide care from doing so.
“It’s meant to have a chilling effect on physicians providing access to necessary care, fearing that it will be characterized as chemical and surgical mutilation of children,” Robin Maril, a law professor at Willamette University, told NBC News in April.
In a 6-3 decision last month, the US supreme court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. In total, 27 states have laws that limit gender-affirming care for minors, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation."
Archived:
https://archive.ph/2WwnW
DOJ Subpoenas Doctors, Clinics Performing Child Transgender Operations
https://archive.ph/XgMH0
Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children
https://archive.ph/oQZKV
DOJ Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics for Performing Transgender Operations
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/doj-subpoenas-doctors-and-clinics-for-performing-transgender-operations/
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Gender medicine after Skrmetti: A call for accountability at Northwestern
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5390101-gender-medicine-after-skrmetti-a-call-for-accountability-at-northwestern
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti talks to reporters outside of the Supreme Court, where he successfully defended Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender treatments.
"Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender medicine, setting a precedent for similar laws nationwide. At universities like ours, U.S. v. Skrmetti was framed as a triumph of far-right extremism at the expense of vulnerable transgender youth. But some of us at Northwestern welcomed the decision — not as anti-trans activists, but as psychology researchers alarmed by the extent to which ideology has overtaken evidence in mental health care.
To us, the verdict presents an opportunity to reexamine a clinical dogma that has captured our field. Seizing this moment, however, will require academia to confront its own entrenched orthodoxies—something Northwestern has shown little interest in doing.
Over the past decade, gender dysphoria has surged among adolescent girls, coinciding with a shift in the therapist’s role. Clinicians are now expected to affirm clients’ gender identities rather than explore the underlying issues. In the rush to validate, practitioners often overlook alternative explanations for gender-related distress.
Sexual trauma, for instance, can produce bodily alienation, numbness, and disgust — symptoms easily mistaken for dysphoria. Labeling caution as “transphobia” diverts traumatized girls away from appropriate care and toward the very sort of irreversible interventions the Supreme Court ruled on in Skrmetti.
There are clear reasons young women may reject their bodies that have nothing to do with “gender identity” as defined by activists. Adolescent girls today navigate a pornified culture that commodifies their sexuality and undermines self-worth. In coursework at Northwestern, we were shown a video series defining “trans” as anyone who deviates from gender expectations for their “sex assigned at birth.” But when those expectations are shaped by a misogynistic ethos that eroticizes female pain, it’s no surprise some girls try to escape womanhood by suppressing puberty or undergoing double mastectomies.
The field of mental health has long misread female trauma. Borderline personality disorder, for instance, is disproportionately assigned to women — especially survivors of sexual abuse. Many detransitioners describe a similar pattern. Young women like Prisha Mosley, Chloe Cole, Luka Hein, and Isabelle Ayala have publicly linked their dysphoria to trauma. Simon Amaya Price, a fellow at Do No Harm, told us he hasn’t encountered a single detransitioner whose gender distress had not been trauma-related. While anecdotal, his observation reflects a growing number of cases in which clinicians simply bypass trauma treatment and refer patients directly for life-altering gender procedures.
These concerns are being taken seriously in other countries. Long before Skrmetti, several European countries had restricted pediatric gender medicine to clinical trials due to poor evidence and high risk. This shift was driven in part by the Cass Review, a sweeping independent investigation that found major flaws in the research base and recommended psychotherapy — not hormones or surgery — as the first-line treatment.
The Cass Review poses a serious challenge to U.S. institutions that still champion the gender-affirming model. Many have dismissed the report, but some of the loudest defenders — such as the American Academy of Pediatrics — now face lawsuits from detransitioners. They are therefore conflicted, as acknowledging the Cass Review’s findings could expose them to liability.
Even the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, whose Standards of Care shape global policy, is now under fire. Whistleblowers and court filings reveal that the organization suppressed unfavorable data, dropped age minimums for gender-related surgeries under political pressure, and endorsed treatments its own members concede are inadequately studied and potentially harmful."
Archived:
https://archive.ph/xCqk4
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https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5390101-gender-medicine-after-skrmetti-a-call-for-accountability-at-northwestern
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti talks to reporters outside of the Supreme Court, where he successfully defended Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender treatments.
"Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender medicine, setting a precedent for similar laws nationwide. At universities like ours, U.S. v. Skrmetti was framed as a triumph of far-right extremism at the expense of vulnerable transgender youth. But some of us at Northwestern welcomed the decision — not as anti-trans activists, but as psychology researchers alarmed by the extent to which ideology has overtaken evidence in mental health care.
To us, the verdict presents an opportunity to reexamine a clinical dogma that has captured our field. Seizing this moment, however, will require academia to confront its own entrenched orthodoxies—something Northwestern has shown little interest in doing.
Over the past decade, gender dysphoria has surged among adolescent girls, coinciding with a shift in the therapist’s role. Clinicians are now expected to affirm clients’ gender identities rather than explore the underlying issues. In the rush to validate, practitioners often overlook alternative explanations for gender-related distress.
Sexual trauma, for instance, can produce bodily alienation, numbness, and disgust — symptoms easily mistaken for dysphoria. Labeling caution as “transphobia” diverts traumatized girls away from appropriate care and toward the very sort of irreversible interventions the Supreme Court ruled on in Skrmetti.
There are clear reasons young women may reject their bodies that have nothing to do with “gender identity” as defined by activists. Adolescent girls today navigate a pornified culture that commodifies their sexuality and undermines self-worth. In coursework at Northwestern, we were shown a video series defining “trans” as anyone who deviates from gender expectations for their “sex assigned at birth.” But when those expectations are shaped by a misogynistic ethos that eroticizes female pain, it’s no surprise some girls try to escape womanhood by suppressing puberty or undergoing double mastectomies.
The field of mental health has long misread female trauma. Borderline personality disorder, for instance, is disproportionately assigned to women — especially survivors of sexual abuse. Many detransitioners describe a similar pattern. Young women like Prisha Mosley, Chloe Cole, Luka Hein, and Isabelle Ayala have publicly linked their dysphoria to trauma. Simon Amaya Price, a fellow at Do No Harm, told us he hasn’t encountered a single detransitioner whose gender distress had not been trauma-related. While anecdotal, his observation reflects a growing number of cases in which clinicians simply bypass trauma treatment and refer patients directly for life-altering gender procedures.
These concerns are being taken seriously in other countries. Long before Skrmetti, several European countries had restricted pediatric gender medicine to clinical trials due to poor evidence and high risk. This shift was driven in part by the Cass Review, a sweeping independent investigation that found major flaws in the research base and recommended psychotherapy — not hormones or surgery — as the first-line treatment.
The Cass Review poses a serious challenge to U.S. institutions that still champion the gender-affirming model. Many have dismissed the report, but some of the loudest defenders — such as the American Academy of Pediatrics — now face lawsuits from detransitioners. They are therefore conflicted, as acknowledging the Cass Review’s findings could expose them to liability.
Even the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, whose Standards of Care shape global policy, is now under fire. Whistleblowers and court filings reveal that the organization suppressed unfavorable data, dropped age minimums for gender-related surgeries under political pressure, and endorsed treatments its own members concede are inadequately studied and potentially harmful."
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“Our country is really headed in a direction away from caring about individuals, and it’s still so shocking.”
New today at Austin Free Press: I spoke with the ACLU of #Texas, and the parents of local transgender teenagers, about the impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling which upholds bans on gender-affirming care for minors. https://austinfreepress.org/supreme-sadness/
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Puberty Blockers Cause HORRIFIC Mental Health Problems! (Here's How) – Billboard Chris
https://youtu.be/D9I8MW_JY6w
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Supreme Court ruling on care for trans minors reopens other cases
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/30/supreme-court-transgender-cases-judges-revisit
Federal judges must revisit decisions upholding transgender rights after the justices ruled that states may ban gender transition care for minors.
"The Supreme Court on Monday told federal judges to revisit decisions siding with transgender individuals in light of the justices’ ruling this month that allows states to ban gender transition care for minors.
The directive from the justices, announced in its routine orders list, could upend lower-court rulings involving transgender rights in four states. One cleared the way for transgender individuals in Oklahoma to change their sex designation on birth certificates. The others involve state health policies in Idaho, West Virginia and North Carolina that do not cover certain treatments for transgender patients.
The justices issued the final rulings of the court’s term Friday. One of their most high-profile decisions came June 18, upholding Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for transgender minors. The 6-3 decision, with the three liberal justices dissenting, said the law — and those like it in more than 20 other states — does not discriminate on the basis of sex.
The ruling did not address the validity of other policies restricting access for transgender individuals to bathrooms, military service and health care.
In the coming days, the Supreme Court could also announce whether it will take up a trio of cases next term involving the contentious issue of transgender athletes’ participation in school sports. The justices considered at their private conference last week whether to review challenges to laws in Arizona, Idaho and West Virginia that ban transgender athletes from participation in women’s and girls’ sports at schools.
The Supreme Court ended the 2024-2025 term with major decisions on nationwide injunctions for birthright citizenship, the Affordable Care Act’s preventive care mandate, and more.
Josh Block, a senior attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the Supreme Court’s action is common practice, especially at the end of its term, and does not necessarily mean the justices think the lower courts should find that the cases were wrongly decided.
It’s more akin to the Supreme Court telling the lower courts, “Here’s a new development you should consider,” he said. “I don’t think that it signals one way or the other what the outcome is going to be.”
Most notably, he said, the justices in the Tennessee case about access to gender transition care for young people did not answer whether the court’s reasoning in a different major case about transgender rights, Bostock v. Clayton County, applies in contexts outside of employment discrimination. In the Bostock case, the court said it is “impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”
Some lower courts have invoked Bostock’s reasoning to find that other laws restricting transgender rights violate the Constitution’s equal-protection provision.
In the Oklahoma case, Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) issued an executive order to stop the state’s practice of allowing transgender individuals to obtain birth certificates with amended sex designations. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit said the state’s policy unlawfully discriminates based on transgender status and sex, and relied in part on the Supreme Court’s rationale in Bostock.
In the health care cases, a closely divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held that state plans in North Carolina and West Virginia that bar coverage of medically necessary treatments for transgender patients violate the Constitution.
North Carolina’s health plan for state employees and teachers excluded coverage for certain transition care. West Virginia’s Medicaid program covers some gender transition care, but not surgery. For instance, the plan covers mastectomies to treat cancer but not to treat gender dysphoria in transgender men.
“Conditioning access to these surgeries based on a patient’s sex assigned at birth stems from gender stereotypes about how men or women should present,” the 4th Circuit majority said, also citing Bostock."
Supreme Court throws out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in 4 states
https://www.lex18.com/news/national-news/supreme-court-throws-out-appellate-rulings-in-favor-of-transgender-people-in-4-states
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/30/supreme-court-transgender-cases-judges-revisit
Federal judges must revisit decisions upholding transgender rights after the justices ruled that states may ban gender transition care for minors.
"The Supreme Court on Monday told federal judges to revisit decisions siding with transgender individuals in light of the justices’ ruling this month that allows states to ban gender transition care for minors.
The directive from the justices, announced in its routine orders list, could upend lower-court rulings involving transgender rights in four states. One cleared the way for transgender individuals in Oklahoma to change their sex designation on birth certificates. The others involve state health policies in Idaho, West Virginia and North Carolina that do not cover certain treatments for transgender patients.
The justices issued the final rulings of the court’s term Friday. One of their most high-profile decisions came June 18, upholding Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for transgender minors. The 6-3 decision, with the three liberal justices dissenting, said the law — and those like it in more than 20 other states — does not discriminate on the basis of sex.
The ruling did not address the validity of other policies restricting access for transgender individuals to bathrooms, military service and health care.
In the coming days, the Supreme Court could also announce whether it will take up a trio of cases next term involving the contentious issue of transgender athletes’ participation in school sports. The justices considered at their private conference last week whether to review challenges to laws in Arizona, Idaho and West Virginia that ban transgender athletes from participation in women’s and girls’ sports at schools.
The Supreme Court ended the 2024-2025 term with major decisions on nationwide injunctions for birthright citizenship, the Affordable Care Act’s preventive care mandate, and more.
Josh Block, a senior attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the Supreme Court’s action is common practice, especially at the end of its term, and does not necessarily mean the justices think the lower courts should find that the cases were wrongly decided.
It’s more akin to the Supreme Court telling the lower courts, “Here’s a new development you should consider,” he said. “I don’t think that it signals one way or the other what the outcome is going to be.”
Most notably, he said, the justices in the Tennessee case about access to gender transition care for young people did not answer whether the court’s reasoning in a different major case about transgender rights, Bostock v. Clayton County, applies in contexts outside of employment discrimination. In the Bostock case, the court said it is “impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”
Some lower courts have invoked Bostock’s reasoning to find that other laws restricting transgender rights violate the Constitution’s equal-protection provision.
In the Oklahoma case, Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) issued an executive order to stop the state’s practice of allowing transgender individuals to obtain birth certificates with amended sex designations. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit said the state’s policy unlawfully discriminates based on transgender status and sex, and relied in part on the Supreme Court’s rationale in Bostock.
In the health care cases, a closely divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held that state plans in North Carolina and West Virginia that bar coverage of medically necessary treatments for transgender patients violate the Constitution.
North Carolina’s health plan for state employees and teachers excluded coverage for certain transition care. West Virginia’s Medicaid program covers some gender transition care, but not surgery. For instance, the plan covers mastectomies to treat cancer but not to treat gender dysphoria in transgender men.
“Conditioning access to these surgeries based on a patient’s sex assigned at birth stems from gender stereotypes about how men or women should present,” the 4th Circuit majority said, also citing Bostock."
Supreme Court throws out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in 4 states
https://www.lex18.com/news/national-news/supreme-court-throws-out-appellate-rulings-in-favor-of-transgender-people-in-4-states
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Supreme Court Saves Kids From Having Their D*cks Cut Off
Bridget Phetasy
https://youtu.be/Gm-uul8b26w
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Bridget Phetasy
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"Insidious": The ACLU's Chase Strangio Slams The New York Times In Leaked Audio
https://substack.com/@benryan/p-166694877
"ACLU litigator Chase Strangio on Saturday issued full-throated criticism of The New York Times’ coverage of transgender issues, calling it “insidious” and “absolutely terrible.” Mr. Strangio, who is a trans man, said that the paper is led by “this idea that they can situate us as a people to be hated.”
These unsparing remarks, which Mr. Strangio made during an hour-long discussion with him held at an event space in the LGBT resort town of Provincetown, Mass., came three days after the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision, U.S. v Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender-transition treatment. Mr. Strangio had made history as the first openly trans person to argue a case before the Supreme Court during oral arguments for Skrmetti in December.
Mr. Strangio pulled no punches throughout the discussion, which included his first lengthy remarks since the Skrmetti decision. I obtained a leaked recording of the Q&A.
“Skrmetti is a horrible decision, and it makes no sense,” he said.
He later grimly quipped that President Donald Trump’s inauguration was “a coronation.”
These remarks also came in the immediate wake of the Times publishing a lengthy investigation by Nicholas Confessore that was critical of the ACLU, and of Mr. Strangio in particular, for pushing the Supreme Court to expand constitutional protections for transgender people based on medical practices—prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors with gender dysphoria—that are supported by weak and uncertain scientific evidence.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/magazine/scotus-transgender-care-tennessee-skrmetti.html
I’ve posted the recording of Mr. Strangio’s Provincetown Q&A below. I have also posted the full transcript at the end of this Substack. Note that the person posing the questions to Mr. Strangio in the recording is Celeste Lecense, cofounder of The Trevor Project, the LGBTQ suicide prevention nonprofit. (The volume in the straight-audio version was rather low, so I also posted the audio as a video, which has better sound quality.)
The Times article portrayed Mr. Strangio as inflexibly devoted to activist pursuits that may have alienated the public and fed the right-wing backlash during the years-long lead-up to Skrmetti. During the conversation in Provincetown on Saturday, Mr. Strangio did not acknowledge any of the Times’ scrutiny of his own actions or rhetoric. Instead, Mr. Strangio heaped criticism on Times, which he portrayed as having waged a campaign to stir up a moral panic over a tiny number of children receiving gender-transition treatments and as ultimately responsible for the Skrmetti decision.
Source: “How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost,” by Nicholas Confessore in The New York Times, June 19, 2025
Mr. Strangio lays into The New York Times
“I think when it comes to the trans coverage is, it’s so insidious,” Mr. Strangio said of the Times. “The New York Times, especially has been fixated on casting the medical care as being of an insufficient quality.” He said that “the characterization of the science” backing pediatric gender medicine in the Times “is wrong.”
Speaking to the legal arguments in the Skrmetti case, he said that “even accepting that there is a debate over the medical care, this isn't a quality-based argument. What the states have to show is that there's a reason why they’re treating this care differently. So even if there are different views about the best care, even if there is evidence that is not as robust as, you know, as we would like, that is true in many other aspects of pediatrics.”
Mr. Strangio faulted the Times, in particular, for what he characterized as its deferential reporting of the British Cass Review, which was authored by renowned pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass and published last year. The review found that the field of pediatric gender medicine was based on “remarkably weak evidence.” Despite the fact that the National Health Service tapped Dr. Cass for the job because she was not involved in treating transgender youth and therefore came to the subject without a professional conflict of interest, Mr. Strangio lambasted her for that lack of experience.
He asserted that U.S. medical associations had “looked at the same evidence that Hilary Cass looked at” and concluded “that this is a robust body of evidence when it comes to pediatric medical care.”
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https://substack.com/@benryan/p-166694877
"ACLU litigator Chase Strangio on Saturday issued full-throated criticism of The New York Times’ coverage of transgender issues, calling it “insidious” and “absolutely terrible.” Mr. Strangio, who is a trans man, said that the paper is led by “this idea that they can situate us as a people to be hated.”
These unsparing remarks, which Mr. Strangio made during an hour-long discussion with him held at an event space in the LGBT resort town of Provincetown, Mass., came three days after the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision, U.S. v Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender-transition treatment. Mr. Strangio had made history as the first openly trans person to argue a case before the Supreme Court during oral arguments for Skrmetti in December.
Mr. Strangio pulled no punches throughout the discussion, which included his first lengthy remarks since the Skrmetti decision. I obtained a leaked recording of the Q&A.
“Skrmetti is a horrible decision, and it makes no sense,” he said.
He later grimly quipped that President Donald Trump’s inauguration was “a coronation.”
These remarks also came in the immediate wake of the Times publishing a lengthy investigation by Nicholas Confessore that was critical of the ACLU, and of Mr. Strangio in particular, for pushing the Supreme Court to expand constitutional protections for transgender people based on medical practices—prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors with gender dysphoria—that are supported by weak and uncertain scientific evidence.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/magazine/scotus-transgender-care-tennessee-skrmetti.html
I’ve posted the recording of Mr. Strangio’s Provincetown Q&A below. I have also posted the full transcript at the end of this Substack. Note that the person posing the questions to Mr. Strangio in the recording is Celeste Lecense, cofounder of The Trevor Project, the LGBTQ suicide prevention nonprofit. (The volume in the straight-audio version was rather low, so I also posted the audio as a video, which has better sound quality.)
The Times article portrayed Mr. Strangio as inflexibly devoted to activist pursuits that may have alienated the public and fed the right-wing backlash during the years-long lead-up to Skrmetti. During the conversation in Provincetown on Saturday, Mr. Strangio did not acknowledge any of the Times’ scrutiny of his own actions or rhetoric. Instead, Mr. Strangio heaped criticism on Times, which he portrayed as having waged a campaign to stir up a moral panic over a tiny number of children receiving gender-transition treatments and as ultimately responsible for the Skrmetti decision.
Source: “How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost,” by Nicholas Confessore in The New York Times, June 19, 2025
Mr. Strangio lays into The New York Times
“I think when it comes to the trans coverage is, it’s so insidious,” Mr. Strangio said of the Times. “The New York Times, especially has been fixated on casting the medical care as being of an insufficient quality.” He said that “the characterization of the science” backing pediatric gender medicine in the Times “is wrong.”
Speaking to the legal arguments in the Skrmetti case, he said that “even accepting that there is a debate over the medical care, this isn't a quality-based argument. What the states have to show is that there's a reason why they’re treating this care differently. So even if there are different views about the best care, even if there is evidence that is not as robust as, you know, as we would like, that is true in many other aspects of pediatrics.”
Mr. Strangio faulted the Times, in particular, for what he characterized as its deferential reporting of the British Cass Review, which was authored by renowned pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass and published last year. The review found that the field of pediatric gender medicine was based on “remarkably weak evidence.” Despite the fact that the National Health Service tapped Dr. Cass for the job because she was not involved in treating transgender youth and therefore came to the subject without a professional conflict of interest, Mr. Strangio lambasted her for that lack of experience.
He asserted that U.S. medical associations had “looked at the same evidence that Hilary Cass looked at” and concluded “that this is a robust body of evidence when it comes to pediatric medical care.”
Archived:
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Chase Strangio: "a chronically smarmy, self-satisfied expression. "
‘Trans rights’ has never been a civil rights issue
Lionel Shriver
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/trans-rights-has-never-been-a-civil-rights-issue
"Strangio is a rare example of sexual disguise that is reasonably persuasive. The 42-year-old woman passes for a certain kind of man: weedy, slight and very short, with narrow shoulders, Marx Brothers eyebrows, just-credible facial hair, a tight fade over the ears bursting into a cocky skywards coiffure, and a chronically smarmy, self-satisfied expression. Strangio comes across as nerdy, weak and perplexingly vain. Plenty of bona fide males out there fit that general description while to all appearances failing to embody the once-prized attributes of traditional masculinity. At a glance, Strangio belongs to that benighted class of weirdos, wimps and wusses – the ultimate swipe-left. So much trouble and expense lavished on passing as a male sissy, when the lawyer might have made a respectable broad.
Is it perversity or hypocrisy? Strangio resents that alphabet land is dominated by the ‘gay white men’ whose appearance she is aping, decries the Supreme Court – before which she has just appeared – as a ‘vile institution’, believes as a lawyer that law is ‘not a dignified system’ and, typically, is highly invested in the alchemy of having changed sex yet does not believe in the existence of sex. ‘A penis is not a male body part,’ she claims. ‘It’s just an unusual body part for a woman.’ Behold, Exhibit B for the Democrats’ foisting of crackpots into positions of responsibility (granted, Donald Trump has form in that regard as well). Naturally, Exhibit A is Admiral ‘Rachel’ Levine, who may single-handedly have convinced Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, because the US military was then apparently a joke."
"The logic is skewed. The world is full of things that are good for one purpose and bad for another. Nothing against picking crops, but if I used a combine harvester to vacuum your sitting-room carpet, I’d expect you to sue. There’s a night-and-day medical difference between a double mastectomy to cure breast cancer and the linguistically sanitised ‘top surgery’ that lops healthy breasts off bamboozled girls who will never breastfeed their children in the unlikely event they can still reproduce.
From the start, this whole trans business has been sold as a civil rights issue. But there is no movement in the West to deny transgender people equal access to housing or employment, much less to ‘kill trans people’, as Strangio asserts. There are no water fountains or lunch counters from which trans people are banished."
"This movement’s ‘trans rights’ decode as the rights to: compel other people to mouth lies that contradict what they see with their own eyes; impose the widespread adoption of dehumanising language such as ‘menstruators’ and ‘birthing people’; force the well-adjusted to finance costly elective plastic surgery through taxation and insurance premiums; walk around women’s changing rooms with one’s wang hanging out; turn women’s sports into a farce; and most importantly, it seems, coax children and mixed-up teenagers to make drastic, irreversible medical decisions which may well result in infection, reduced bone density, lifelong reliance on pharmaceuticals, poor ability to form relationships, sexual dysfunction, impotence and infertility. Perhaps also in searing regret – especially once this sick societal obsession finally subsides and its victims no longer constitute sacralised members of the avant-garde but the awkward residue of an old mistake.
We’re making progress, but this festishistic ideology is perniciously entrenched. Children are still butchered in American blue states. Let’s relieve insurance companies and the NHS of the obligation to provide gender-denying care. It’s past time we restored the conviction you’re really the opposite sex to being a mental illness, and one not necessarily that is best treated by humouring the delusion. Sure, men can wear dresses and women tuxes, but doctors who mangle fully functional body parts violate the Hippocratic oath."
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‘Trans rights’ has never been a civil rights issue
Lionel Shriver
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/trans-rights-has-never-been-a-civil-rights-issue
"Strangio is a rare example of sexual disguise that is reasonably persuasive. The 42-year-old woman passes for a certain kind of man: weedy, slight and very short, with narrow shoulders, Marx Brothers eyebrows, just-credible facial hair, a tight fade over the ears bursting into a cocky skywards coiffure, and a chronically smarmy, self-satisfied expression. Strangio comes across as nerdy, weak and perplexingly vain. Plenty of bona fide males out there fit that general description while to all appearances failing to embody the once-prized attributes of traditional masculinity. At a glance, Strangio belongs to that benighted class of weirdos, wimps and wusses – the ultimate swipe-left. So much trouble and expense lavished on passing as a male sissy, when the lawyer might have made a respectable broad.
Is it perversity or hypocrisy? Strangio resents that alphabet land is dominated by the ‘gay white men’ whose appearance she is aping, decries the Supreme Court – before which she has just appeared – as a ‘vile institution’, believes as a lawyer that law is ‘not a dignified system’ and, typically, is highly invested in the alchemy of having changed sex yet does not believe in the existence of sex. ‘A penis is not a male body part,’ she claims. ‘It’s just an unusual body part for a woman.’ Behold, Exhibit B for the Democrats’ foisting of crackpots into positions of responsibility (granted, Donald Trump has form in that regard as well). Naturally, Exhibit A is Admiral ‘Rachel’ Levine, who may single-handedly have convinced Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, because the US military was then apparently a joke."
"The logic is skewed. The world is full of things that are good for one purpose and bad for another. Nothing against picking crops, but if I used a combine harvester to vacuum your sitting-room carpet, I’d expect you to sue. There’s a night-and-day medical difference between a double mastectomy to cure breast cancer and the linguistically sanitised ‘top surgery’ that lops healthy breasts off bamboozled girls who will never breastfeed their children in the unlikely event they can still reproduce.
From the start, this whole trans business has been sold as a civil rights issue. But there is no movement in the West to deny transgender people equal access to housing or employment, much less to ‘kill trans people’, as Strangio asserts. There are no water fountains or lunch counters from which trans people are banished."
"This movement’s ‘trans rights’ decode as the rights to: compel other people to mouth lies that contradict what they see with their own eyes; impose the widespread adoption of dehumanising language such as ‘menstruators’ and ‘birthing people’; force the well-adjusted to finance costly elective plastic surgery through taxation and insurance premiums; walk around women’s changing rooms with one’s wang hanging out; turn women’s sports into a farce; and most importantly, it seems, coax children and mixed-up teenagers to make drastic, irreversible medical decisions which may well result in infection, reduced bone density, lifelong reliance on pharmaceuticals, poor ability to form relationships, sexual dysfunction, impotence and infertility. Perhaps also in searing regret – especially once this sick societal obsession finally subsides and its victims no longer constitute sacralised members of the avant-garde but the awkward residue of an old mistake.
We’re making progress, but this festishistic ideology is perniciously entrenched. Children are still butchered in American blue states. Let’s relieve insurance companies and the NHS of the obligation to provide gender-denying care. It’s past time we restored the conviction you’re really the opposite sex to being a mental illness, and one not necessarily that is best treated by humouring the delusion. Sure, men can wear dresses and women tuxes, but doctors who mangle fully functional body parts violate the Hippocratic oath."
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@dalfen@mstdn.socialThankfully, there is still hope.
Though #SCOTUS “said the executive order would technically go into effect in 30 days”...
“The American Civil Liberties Union, which is also involved in the litigation, (called) the ruling ‘troubling but limited,’ noting that lower courts have time to act before the 30-day deadline.”
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@dalfen@mstdn.socialI used to think (in my naivety) that a judge on the Supreme Court was the smartest in the Judiciary — cream of the crop, top of the line…
But damn I can see that’s not true because this is some A-class manipulation and gaslighting by Trump Administration lawyers—
And it makes sense that the people directing #Trump during his first term would put judges in #SCOTUS who would roll over for him.
Glyn Moody @glynmoody@mastodon.social
US supreme court limits judges’ power on nationwide injunctions in apparent win for Trump - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-scotus well, that's what you get with a stacked #scotus
US supreme court limits federal judges’ power to block Trump orders
Ruling to limit nationwide injunctions could see president’s…
The GuardianLaffy @GottaLaff@mstdn.social
#SCOTUS 5
Stern:
The Supreme Court's fifth decision is Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. By a 6–3 vote, the court UPHOLDS age-verification laws for online porn, holding that they are only subject to intermediate scrutiny. All three liberals dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1122_3e04.pdf
The Rage X @theragex@mastodon.social
US Supreme Court Backs Trump Order, Curbs National Injunctions
The Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions and clears the way for Trump’s birthright citizenship order to take effect. Hashtags: #SupremeCourt #Trump #ImmigrationPolicy #BirthrightCitizenship #SCOTUS Follow our war and policy coverage: @rageintel
https://ragex.co/us-supreme-court-backs-trump-order-curbs-national-injunctions/
US Supreme Court Backs Trump Order, Curbs National Injunctions
🇺🇸 JUST IN: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to limit…
RAGE XSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Three reminders ahead of #SCOTUS news at 10 ET: 1) Decisions come out in reverse seniority order by who wrote it (so KBJ first; Chief last); 2) Anything unsigned ("per curiam") comes *after* anything signed; and 3) This is just for *argued* cases; other business can (and will) come up all summer.