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Over the past several years there have been scores of laws and cases brought to courts around the United States regarding the rights of transgender youth; whether they can play sports with their peers, access certain kinds of healthcare, or even use the correct bathroom. Today, however, marks the first of these cases to reach the highest level of our legal system: the Supreme Court. U.S. v Skrmetti will allow Supreme Court Justices to decide whether gender-affirming care bans for minors are unconstitutional on the basis of sex discrimination.

The case comes in the wake of Tennesse's law Senate Bill 1 (SB1), which prohibits doctors from prescribing surgical and pharmaceutical care to transgender minors looking to transition. plaintiffs in the case argue that this law is based purely on sex discrimination, and raises questions about "not just the legitimacy of trans healthcare, but about, in some sense, the legitimacy of trans people as members of civic life and public life".

The outcome of this case could heavily influence the types of legislation brought to the courts in other states, as well as challenging the swaths of anti-trans bills already in effect or on the table across the country. It could provide a jumping off point for legal challenges against this transphobic wave in government, though the demographics of the Supreme Court make such a momentous outcome unlikely. It may also spurn a movement to try and further restrict healthcare for trans adults, no matter the decision reached by the Court.

This is the most important trans rights case probably fucking ever, and though nothing was decided today, it doesn’t look good y’all. For anyone. In short, the Court is probably going to uphold Tennessee's ban on care for minors, but might absolutely destroy rules about sex-based discrimination. Several of the Republican justices "suggested creating a carveout from the ordinary constitutional rule restricting sex-based discrimination of all kinds." Chief Justice Roberts offered up the idea of allowing the government sweeping authority to engage in medical discrimination, and of course, Justices Kavanaugh, Alito, Barrett, and Thomas all indicated being in favor of that. The implications go beyond just trans people, here.

And not only does it look like the Supreme Court will uphold Tennessee's law, but this decision could open doors for the government to prevent adults from seeking gender affirming care, likely leaving it a states' rights situation. For many of us (trans people), this will likely end up being a matter of life or death. Red states have been trying to institute bans like this for years now, and the decision that may very well come down from the Supreme Court about Skrmetti will only embolden these efforts.

Please don't ignore this post. Please reblog it, spread it around, because I've seen dick about it on this website all day. Engage in local and state governments, form community, don't stick your head in the sand. If you're cis, you should reblog this. Trans issues effect you too, and if caring about other human beings isn't a reason enough for you to give a damn, they will eventually become your issues.

The British should put a time limit on the Monarchy.

Not like declaring a republic tomorrow, but deciding on a date in the future that ends the British Monarchy.

And there's a perfect date for it coming up!

October 14th, 2066.

A thousand years since the Battle of Hastings. A thousand years of this one specific bloodline ruling England.

Call time on the Monarchy after exactly one thousand years. Nice, and neat.

Even better: Charles isn't living 44 years. He'll be gone in about twenty. Now William? He's what, 40? Yeah, he can live another 44 years. His great grandmother was over a hundred, his granny was 96, William can make it to 84 barring accident or assassination.

So on October 14th 2066, William the Last steps down a thousand years after William the First won the crown.

Nice, neat, and fair. William gets the crown he's been waiting forty years for already, but ten-year-old George grows up without expectation of it.

I know people in America and Europe, they take it as granted that they can get the records anywhere and can listen to anything they want. They go to concerts. But it was really difficult for me to find just a single poster of Depeche Mode, or just a single music of Depeche Mode.

Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around and found out. He wanted to fuck with Twitter's stock price by feigning interest in buying it. Since that's illegal, he was then cornered into actually buying it for an insanely inflated price.