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GLAD Law 和 NCLR 回应 斯克尔梅蒂 最高法院裁决  

法院今日未能履行职责。它选择视而不见,抛弃了脆弱的儿童和深爱他们的父母。任何父母都不应该被迫看着自己的孩子受苦,却因为政治原因无法获得可靠的医疗服务。

华盛顿特区——今天的美国最高法院 发布了裁决美国诉斯克尔梅蒂案,支持田纳西州禁止为跨性别青年提供医疗保健的禁令。 

今天的决定对目前尚未禁止跨性别青年医疗保健的州没有影响。

每个主要的医学协会,包括 美国医学会美国心理学会 支持这种护理,其依据是数十年的研究成果,并依赖于用于治疗儿童和成人一系列其他健康问题的相同安全有效的药物。上个月,在迄今为止最全面的审查中, 犹他州立法机构委托撰写的一份新的 1,000+ 份报告 发现这种护理有大量证据支持,安全有效,并可降低自杀风险。

GLAD Law 跨性别者和酷儿权利高级总监 詹妮弗·莱维国家LGBTQ权利中心法律总监 香农·明特两人均拥有超过 30 年的 LGBTQ+ 影响诉讼经验,包括跨性别医疗保健案件,而且他们本身也是跨性别者,他们对今天的最高法院裁决作出了回应:

“法院今天未能履行职责,” GLAD Law 跨性别者和酷儿权利高级主管 Jennifer Levi。“当政治体系崩溃,立法机构屈服于民众的敌意时,司法机构本应成为宪法的支柱。然而,司法机构却选择视而不见,抛弃了脆弱的儿童和深爱他们的父母。任何父母都不应该被迫看着自己的孩子受苦,却因为政治原因而无法获得可靠的医疗服务。

“法院的裁决让跨性别青年及其家人遭受政治攻击。它无视明显的歧视,并无视其自身的法律先例,允许立法者以跨性别为由攻击年轻人,” 国家 LGBTQ 权利中心法律总监 Shannon Minter“医疗保健的决定权在于家庭,而不是政客。这项决定将造成真正的伤害。”

最高法院的裁决传递了一个危险的信号:即使是对跨性别青少年造成直接伤害的法律,在法律挑战通过法院审理期间,也可能继续有效,而这一过程通常需要数月甚至数年。这使得各州得以在尚未完全确定其合宪性之前,就执行那些扰乱生活、限制医疗保健、制造恐惧和不稳定的歧视性政策。截至2025年6月,已有超过20个州通过或拟定了类似的法律,导致法律条文不一,许多家庭不确定他们的孩子是否能够得到适当的照顾。

这项裁决为特朗普政府掀起更广泛的反跨性别立法浪潮铺平了道路。特朗普总统重返白宫后,又发布了多项针对跨性别者的行政命令,进一步推动了这一立法浪潮,其中包括努力取消联邦政府对性别认同的认可、限制各年龄段跨性别者获得医疗保健的机会,以及禁止跨性别学生参加体育运动和进入公立学校。

像田纳西州这样的反跨性别立法,是一场日益壮大的全国性运动的一部分,旨在剥夺跨性别者的权利、尊严和获得救命医疗的机会。这些法律并非基于医学证据或对儿童的关切,而是出于恐惧、错误信息以及将跨性别者从公共生活中抹去的欲望。它们造成的伤害是真实、直接且深远的。在 GLAD 律师事务所,我们致力于在法庭上挑战这些攻击,支持受影响的家庭,并努力创造一个所有跨性别者都能公开、安全、完全平等地生活的未来。

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美国诉斯克尔梅蒂案和多伊诉索恩伯里案

更新: 2025 年 6 月 18 日,美国最高法院 发布了裁决 在 美国诉斯克尔梅蒂案,维持田纳西州禁止跨性别青少年医疗保健的禁令。该裁决对目前尚未禁止跨性别青少年医疗保健的州不产生影响。阅读 GLAD Law 的回应 对该裁决。

美国最高法院

美国最高法院将审查第六巡回上诉法院的一项裁决,该裁决允许田纳西州和肯塔基州在针对跨性别者医疗保健的诉讼仍在继续期间强制执行禁令。关键问题是,以跨性别者身份为由阻止其获得医疗保健的法律是否违反了美国宪法中的平等保护条款。

2024 年 9 月,肯塔基州跨性别儿童的父母和众多民权组织 提交了法庭之友陈述美国诉斯克尔梅蒂案他们的代理机构包括 GLAD Law、NCLR、肯塔基州 ACLU 和 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP。

该简报认为,田纳西州和肯塔基州的禁令与其他州通过的禁令一样,有意歧视跨性别青少年,禁止他们获得为其他青少年开具的药物。这些法律并非禁止所有未成年人使用这些药物,而仅限于为跨性别未成年人开具的药物。由于这种歧视性待遇,跨性别青少年无法获得唯一有效的治疗手段,以应对性别焦虑症带来的严重困扰。 

看看 GLAD 法律顾问 Lisa Rodriguez-Ross 的解释 利害攸关 在这种情况下。

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第六巡回上诉法院

GLBTQ 法律倡导者和捍卫者 (GLAD Law)、国家妇女法律中心 (NWLC)、南方平等运动以及其他 11 个妇女、医疗保健和 LGBTQ+ 组织 提交了一份法庭之友陈述书 2023 年 8 月,在美国第六巡回上诉法院,敦促恢复法院命令,阻止在田纳西州和肯塔基州执行针对青少年的跨性别医疗保健禁令,同时继续对这些禁令提出法律挑战。

该简报认为,田纳西州和肯塔基州禁止医生为跨性别青少年提供医疗服务的法律构成性别歧视,因此应受到更严格的司法审查。这些禁令针对跨性别青少年,拒绝为他们提供医疗服务,即使他们本人、医生和父母都同意这对他们的健康至关重要。此类法律体现了敌意,只会伤害年轻人。

法庭之友组织致力于确保每个人(包括女性和 LGBTQ+ 人士)都能获得所需的医疗保健。除了 GLAD Law 和 NWLC 之外,加入法庭之友简报的组织还有:

  • 南方平等运动
  • 平等联盟
  • 家庭平等
  • 人权运动
  • 孟菲斯生殖健康中心
  • 国家跨性别平等中心,
  • OUT孟菲斯
  • 南方法律顾问
  • 南方贫困法律中心
  • 田纳西州平等项目
  • 特雷弗计划
  • 跨性别青年的白大褂

LW 诉 Skrmetti美国公民自由联盟, 俄克拉荷马州美国公民自由联盟, 和 Lambda 法律. 多伊诉索恩伯里案肯塔基州美国公民自由联盟国家LGBTQ权利中心.

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LGBTQ Civil Rights, Health Groups Respond to Supreme Court Argument in U.S. v Skrmetti

Following Wednesday’s Supreme Court argument in 美国诉斯克尔梅蒂案, LGBTQ+ civil rights and health organizations expressed encouragement that the Court will be receptive to the U.S. and Plaintiff families’ position that Tennessee’s law banning health care for transgender adolescents discriminates based on sex and must therefore be held to a higher level of scrutiny.

National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR):

“The plaintiffs today made a strong case that this law discriminates by barring medications based solely on a person’s birth sex,” said Shannon Minter, Vice President of Legal at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. “The State of Tennessee had no effective response to that obvious fact, which several Justices made clear. Based on today’s argument, we are hopeful the Court will rule that Tennessee’s law discriminates based on sex and must therefore be subject to the same high standard of review applied to all other sex-based laws. That would be a huge victory and would provide clear guidance for the lower courts about how to evaluate these laws.” 

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law):

“Today’s argument powerfully showed how these bans unfairly target transgender adolescents and deny them medications that all other adolescents can obtain when medically indicated. You don’t have to know about health care to know that these bans are not about medicine – they are about discrimination,” said Jennifer Levi, Senior Director of Transgender and Queer Rights at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law). “They insert politicians between families and medical providers and block parents from getting their transgender children the health care that allows them to be healthy and thrive. The stigma and discrimination baked into these laws is intentional, clear, and devastating.”

The Movement Advancement Project: 

“The arguments at the Supreme Court made it unequivocally clear: banning medically necessary care for transgender youth is unlawful discrimination that puts their health and well-being at risk,” said Naomi Goldberg, Executive Director of the Movement Advancement Project. “Tennessee is one of 24 states that have taken away families’ freedom to obtain essential health care for their transgender child. These are decisions that rightfully rest with doctors, families, and patients—and based on the case laid out in yesterday’s arguments, we’re hopeful that the Court will see these bans for the discriminatory laws they are.”


特雷弗计划

“I am encouraged by the arguments before the Court, as the justices had the opportunity to directly engage with the real-world harms that discriminatory laws have on the health and well-being of transgender young people and their families,” said Casey Pick, Director of Law and Policy at The Trevor Project. “The Trevor Project regularly hears from young people across the U.S. about the life-saving nature of the medical care at risk in this case. For any parent, it is unimaginable to think of the government telling you that you can’t give your child the medicine they need to stay healthy. But that is exactly what Tennessee’s law says to parents with transgender children.”

Whitman-Walker Institute:

“The plaintiffs’ arguments on Wednesday made a powerful case for ensuring that transgender youth can receive the medical care they need,”  said Dr. Kellan Baker, executive director of Whitman-Walker Institute, an LGBT health-focused research organization. “Solicitor General Prelogar shared the story of Ryan Roe, whose gender dysphoria was so severe that he was throwing up daily and almost became mute because of the intense distress he experienced at the sound of his own voice. When Ryan’s parents were able to get him the care he needed, he started thriving—but then Tennessee took that care away. Though this care is supported by every major medical expert organization, transgender youth and their families in two dozen states are facing the same cruel denial of care that Ryan experienced. We hope the Supreme Court will issue a ruling addressing the discrimination inherent in these dangerous bans.”

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GLAD Statement on Supreme Court Action on Transgender Health Care Bans

Today the United States Supreme Court agreed to review a decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals preventing transgender youth from receiving necessary medical care in Tennessee and Kentucky.

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) issued the following statement:

State bans on health care for transgender adolescents are causing tremendous harm and suffering for transgender people and their families. In taking up this case, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to affirm what it found in its ruling in 博斯托克 just 4 years ago and to make clear that our Constitution does not abide laws that single out transgender people for discrimination.

The Sixth Circuit decision which the Supreme Court has now agreed to review reversed federal district court rulings halting transgender health care bans in 肯塔基州 – in a challenge brought by NCLR and the ACLU of Kentucky – and in 田纳西州 – in challenges brought by Lambda Legal and the ACLU as well as by the Department of Justice.

GLAD is currently challenging state bans on health care for transgender people in 阿拉巴马州 as well as in 佛罗里达, where a federal court earlier this month permanently blocked the law banning care for transgender adolescents and severely restricting it for adults.

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Women’s, Healthcare, and Human Rights Organizations Urge 6th Circuit to Reinstate Block on Transgender Health Bans in TN, KY

Friend-of-the-court brief argues bans on access to care for transgender adolescents constitute sex discrimination and are subject to heightened scrutiny, which the laws fail

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), Campaign for Southern Equality, and eleven other women’s, healthcare and LGBTQ+ organizations filed an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief in the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit urging reinstatement of the court order preventing enforcement of transgender healthcare bans for adolescents in Tennessee and Kentucky while the legal challenges to those bans continue.

The brief argues that Tennessee and Kentucky state laws prohibiting doctors from providing healthcare to transgender adolescents discriminate on the basis of sex, and are therefore subject to heightened judicial scrutiny. These bans target transgender adolescents to deny them care, even when they, their doctors, and their parents agree it is essential for their health. Such laws reflect hostility and serve only to harm young people.

The Sixth Circuit panel’s order allowing the Tennessee and Kentucky bans to go into effect despite pending legal challenges means transgender adolescents can’t get the care they need and their parents are blocked from acting in their children’s best interests.

The Sixth Circuit is an outlier among courts to consider laws denying healthcare access to transgender adolescents. District court judges in seven states to consider such bans, including Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals  have found in preliminary proceedings that such bans violate the constitutional rights of transgender people and cause immediate, irreparable harms. A federal judge in Arkansas, the first to issue a final ruling, has now blocked that state’s ban permanently.

The amici are organizations committed to ensuring everyone, including women and LGBTQ+ people, can access the healthcare they need. In addition to GLAD and NWLC, the organizations joining the friend-of-the-court brief are Campaign for Southern Equality, Equality Federation, Family Equality, Human Rights Campaign, Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, National Center for Transgender Equality, OUTMemphis, Southern Legal Counsel, Southern Poverty Law Center, Tennessee Equality Project, Trevor Project, and White Coats for Trans Youth. The brief was filed by Jenner & Block LLP.

Visit the case pageread the brief.

Curb Records v. Lee

UPDATE: On May 17, in a separate case brought by the ACLU of Tennessee, a federal judge issued a ruling striking the law on First Amendment grounds.

On June 30, 2021, renowned independent record label Curb Records and the Mike Curb Foundation 提起联邦诉讼 challenging a new Tennessee law, HB 1182, that requires businesses to post a demeaning notice on their premises if they have policies allowing access for transgender individuals on an equal basis to other patrons.

The complaint asserts that HB 1182 – which designates precise dimensions, red and yellow coloring and specific language amounting to a “not welcome” sign to patrons – promotes a hostile climate for LGBT people in the state and denies them equal access to businesses open to the public as well as to employment and educational opportunities. Curb Records and the Mike Curb Foundation argue that the law compels them and other Tennessee businesses to endorse a climate of fear and nonacceptance of LGBT people, in contradiction to their company values of integrity, respect for diversity and nondiscrimination.

Curb Records and the Mike Curb Foundation are represented in their suit by Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, attorney Abby Rubenfeld, the National Center for LGBTQ Rights (NCLR), and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD).

Read GLAD’s statement on the filing.

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