“The Court has affirmed what millions of Americans know instinctively: children are not experiments, and states have both the right and the duty to shield them from harm.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Independent Women released the following statements applauding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Skrmetti to allow Tennessee’s law restricting irreversible medical treatments for minors to remain in effect. 

In a 6-3 opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court held that Tennessee’s law prohibiting so-called “gender-affirming” medical interventions for minors does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, holding that the law doesn’t classify based on sex or transgender status, and it clearly meets the rational basis standard of review. 

Beth Parlato, Senior Legal Advisor of Independent Women’s Law Center, said: 

“The Supreme Court’s landmark decision today in U.S. v. Skrmetti is a resounding victory for common sense, parental rights, and the protection of vulnerable children. By upholding Tennessee’s law banning irreversible medical interventions like cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors, the Court has affirmed what millions of Americans know instinctively: children are not experiments, and states have both the right and the duty to shield them from harm. This ruling reaffirms a fundamental principle, that safeguarding children takes precedence over radical gender ideology. This decision serves as precedent for the 25 other states that have laws protecting children from aggressive experimental interventions that inflict life-changing, irreversible harm, and I hope this decision empowers the remaining states to follow suit in defending the health and safety of children.”

Prisha Mosley, detransitioner and ambassador at Independent Women, said: 

“SCOTUS has made a decision based on science and reason which will allow states to uphold the bans on the unethical and abusive practice of ‘gender medicine’ on minors. This ruling comes after detransitioners and whistleblowers, and concerned parents, showed up in DC to show our support for these laws. It looks like the Justices listened to us and that states will retain the right to protect children from activist doctors.”

Mosley first told her story of detransitioning as part of Independent Women Features’ (IW Features) “Identity Crisis: Real Stories About Escaping Gender Ideology” series. 

The “Identity Crisis” series, which was launched in 2022, has been sounding the alarm on the irreversible harms of radical gender ideology by elevating the stories of medical professionals, parents, and detransitioners through.

IW Features most recently released a two-part documentary about Claire Abernathy, a detransitioner, and her mother, Carrie Abernathy. The mother-daughter duo shared exclusively with IW Features how they were sold the lie of so-called “gender-affirming care,” and how it permanently impacted their lives: 

In addition to Mosley’s story, the “Identity Crisis” series first told the stories of Soren Aldaco, Isabelle Ayala, Daisy Strongin, among other detransitioners who had easy and quick access to wrong-sex hormones and surgery to manipulate their healthy bodies. Today, they live with physical scars and mental anguish after having been abandoned by a medical industry that sold them a lie.

From “top surgery,” nipples peeling off, clitoral growth, trapped milk ducts, and hairy bodies, Identity Crisis documentaries bring to light the graphic stories of young adults now reckoning with the physical and emotional scars of gender ideology:

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