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What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Trans Rights Ruling

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This should not be a surprise: The ban at issue in Skrmetti, like dozens that were introduced across the country over the course of this decade, come from the Christian-right law and advocacy movement—such groups as Alliance Defending Freedom, the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, and the American Principles Project. Their coalition may be more well known now as a facet of Project 2025, but before then, such groups aligned [politicalresearch.org] around fomenting a moral panic about An umbrella acronym standing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning. Learn more rights. They have rather quickly seized on youth medical transition as one more way to discredit and fearmonger over A term used for someone whose gender is not (exclusively) the one they were assigned at birth. Learn more people in the United States, turning a rather recent rise in cultural and political visibility into a threat to children, the family, and American values.”

“That a case like Skrmetti made it to the Supreme Court so swiftly is evidence of the success of the coalition of Christian-right, [politicalresearch.org] Christian nationalist, and Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more groups (to the extent that such distinctions are credible) that have been working overtime to scapegoat transgender people. These are also not new groups, for the most part, but they have been adapting to new political terrain.”

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