The Erosion of Equal Protection - The Unsurprising Havoc of United States v. Skrmetti Thoreson, Ryan Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-06-23 eng
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 In United States v. Skrmetti, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 along ideological lines to uphold a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors, reaching that conclusion by construing equal protection jurisprudence in regressive ways. The majority reasoned that the law not only did not discriminate on the basis of sex, but did not discriminate on the basis of transgender status either. This post explains how the Skrmetti decision threatens to narrow the scope of constitutional equality protections in the United States, why it is dangerous for the equality claims of women and lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, and why it is likely to be so damaging for transgender people targeted by state and federal lawmakers in recent years. CC BY-SA 4.0 Thoreson, Ryan anti-discrimination gender and sex discrimination LGBT Rights Trans rights transgender rights US Supreme Court 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-erosion-of-equal-protection/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/dad4afc25bea97cc 250623 10.59704/dad4afc25bea97cc Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)