A transgender ACLU attorney on Tuesday defended gender transition procedures for children, while appearing to acknowledge that they are too young to consent.
On CNN, Chase Strangio discussed an upcoming case involving Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and transgender surgeries for minors, which the trans man will argue. before the Supreme Court later this week.
Host Jake Tapper asked Strangio about people who are concerned about that not enough data on the consequences of minors undergoing such procedures. Strangio insisted that there was enough information to prove that they were helping children, and that even some children under the age of ten needed this “relief” from their suffering.
ACLU attorney Chase Strangio appeared on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Tuesday. (CNN screenshot)
“These are not doctors being forced to provide this drug,” Strangio said. ‘These are doctors who want to treat their patients in the best way they know how, based on the best evidence available to us. And these are young people who may have known exactly who they are from the age of two, who suffered for six or seven years before they got any relief.”
Minors cannot legally consent to medical procedures, and Strangio recognized this protection while appealing to parents’ rights.
“What is happening here is not the children consenting to this treatment. It is the parents who agree to the treatment,” the lawyer continued. “And as a parent I would say: when our children suffer, we suffer. And these are parents who love their children, who listen to the advice of their doctors from the mainstream medical community and do what is right for their children. , and the State of Tennessee has rejected their judgment.”
Strangio will argue before the Supreme Court this week against Tennessee’s ban on transgender procedures for minors. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The upcoming case, US v. Skrmetti, will be the first time the Supreme Court will consider restrictions on puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery for minors.
Strangio claimed that if the Supreme Court sides with Tennessee, it could open the door to a ban on transgender treatments for adults.
“I think this is one of the things we really need to be concerned about. We hear a lot about young people not being able to consent to this care, but it’s their parents who are consenting to this care,” Strangio said.
“And at the end of the day, we have adults who live as transgender people, people like me, who have families who are part of communities, who are part of this society. And if the new government bans our health care, then so be it. essentially cutting us out of this country.”
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U.S. vs. Skrmetti will be the first Supreme Court case to address restrictions on transgender procedures for minors. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Tennessee is currently one of more than two dozen states that have introduced some form of legislation restrictions on gender transition procedures for minors.
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