What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Trans Rights Ruling
“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 LGBTQ rights. They have rather quickly seized on youth medical transition as one more way to discredit and fearmonger over transgender 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 far-right 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.”