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The Supreme Court disregarded the issue of precedent stare decisis, a Latin term meaning let the decision stand when, in 2022, itsDobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organizationdecision overturnedRoe v. Wade(1973), effectively unraveling the legal right to abortion for nearly the last 50 years. The Court left it to the states to decide whether to legalize reproductive rights.In a concurring opinion, JusticeClarence Thomaswrote that the Supreme Court should reconsider other previous rulings granting the rights to contraception access, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage (aka. marriage equality). Related Lets address the real reason Donald Trump sent the National Guard to Los Angeles The president doesnt care about law and order. He cares about showing off his power. SinceDobbs, many state legislatures have banned reproductive healthcare for pregnant people and those who wish to become pregnant, as well as the safe and effective drugs used in medication abortions mifepristone and misoprostol and also IVF (in vitro fertilization). Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today This hasresultedin several cases of women bleeding to death after having a miscarriage because doctors fear that if they treat them, they may be breaking the laws of their states. The denial of bodily autonomy continuesThe U.S. Supreme Court issued another destructive ruling on June 18 inUnited States v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessees prohibition on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth. This 6-3 decision came down on partisan lines, with the Courts Republican appointees opposing trans rights and the Democratic appointees supporting trans rights.Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the majority, with Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas writing concurring majority opinions. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan wrote dissenting opinions.The plaintiffs arguing for trans rights claimed that the Tennessee law was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitutions 14thAmendment, which promises equal treatment under the law regardless of sex and other characteristics. The Courts ruling, however, asserted that Tennessees ban on gender-affirming care does not discriminate on the basis of sex or trans status. The ruling will now allow the 25 states that currently have such bans to continue to enforce them.With this draconian betrayal of trans youth, families will now have to make insufferable choices in some cases, whether to flee their state or separate their families while taking on huge financial liabilities or taking major legal risks to provide young people the ability to access medically necessary care.Previously in Alabama, a majority of judges on the U.S. 11thCircuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider Alabamas ban on gender-affirming care, which ruled that parents do not have a right to allowgender-affirming carefor young people. Previously, a three-judge panel sided with the Alabama legislatures ban on gender-affirming care.Alabamas 2022 law makes it a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for doctors to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to a transgender person under the age of 19. The law also prohibits genital surgeries, even though physicians have not performed these on minors in the state. Backlash and scapegoating of trans peoplePresident Joe Biden, shortly after taking office, signed an executive order allowing trans troops to serve openly in the U.S. military, effectively repealing the ban that Trump put in place during his first presidential term.However, in May, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration has the right to enforce Trumps January 20 executive order prohibiting transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. The order went into effect on February 26.Donald Trump, amid his self-proclaimed retribution campaign, has specifically targeted members of the trans community in his efforts to completely erase their existence from the human community. (No doubt he would attempt to wipe out gender diversity within non-human species too, if he could.) Trump also signed a mean-spirited and petty presidential executive order in his attempt to rewrite history by expunging trans activism and trans lives. The order demanded that trans people be deleted from New Yorks Stonewall Inn National Monument website developed by theNational Park Service. The acronym that once read LGBTQ+ has been reduced to LGB, standing for lesbian, gay, and bisexual.Did the people who voted for Trump to rise to the Oval Office a second time really want him to spend his hours behind the Resolute Desk scrubbing trans people from U.S. history?During his short second regime, another of Trumps executive orders bans trans athletes from school and professional sports, from using the public facilities of their choice, and from choosing to have gender-affirming procedures to maintain their bodily autonomy because, to Trump, there are only two genders: male and female. All else, to Trump, contradicts the natural world. He even signed anexecutive orderto this effect declaring that there are only two genders. With this came a series of specific policy changes. TitledDefending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,the order describes biological sex as being determined by the size of ones reproductive cells: small for men and large for women.Government documents, including passports, visas, and employee records, can only show male or female. The government will no longer pay for trans-related health care, such as for government employees, military personnel, or federal prisoners.In addition, all trans women incarcerated in federal prisons he ordered thrown into male prison facilities, despite multiple court rulingsblockingthe presidents policy. In another of Trumps orders, the federal government will no longer even recognize the existence of trans people and willprevent federal fundsfrom being spent on any programs that do so.The order says, Federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology and it directs the Bureau of Prisons to revise its policies to ensure that federal inmates do not receive any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmates appearance to that of the opposite sex.Recently, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has banned rainbow flags from being flown at U.S. embassies.The Trump administration, as was the case in other authoritarian regimes throughout history, has attempted to limit the bodily autonomy of women, trans, intersex, and lesbian, gay, and bisexual people for the purpose of controlling their minds and limiting their social power. A defined norm and lack of prior claimIn her pioneer book,Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, Suzanne Pharr describes a series ofelementsshe finds common to the multiple forms of oppression. Such elements include what she refers to as a defined norm and a lack of prior claim, among many others.Pharr explains a defined norm as a standard of rightness and often of righteousness wherein all others are judged in relation to it. This norm must be backed up with institutional power, economic power, and both institutional and individual violence.Another way the defined norm manages to maintain its power and control is by what Pharr refers to as the element or system of lack of prior claim.This, according to Pharr, means that if you werent there when the original document (the Constitution, for example) was written, or when the organization was first created, then you have no right to inclusion.Those who seek their rights, who seek inclusion, who seek to control their own lives instead of having their lives controlled are the people who fall outside the norm. They arethe Other. In the original and unamended version of the U.S. Constitution, for example, since only European-heritage male landowners had the right to vote, allothers including women and people of color (those outside the defined norm and who lacked prior claim) had to fight long and difficult battles against strong forces to gain access to the voting booth, often under the threat of implied and actual violence against them.Some who continue to oppose marriage equality for same-sex couples claim that this legal right undermines the sanctity of marriage, and possibly leads to the destruction of society, often using religious sanctions as their justification.Those in power in the United States have excluded womens reproductive freedoms, and trans, intersex, lesbian, gay, and bisexual peoples bodily autonomy from the category of defined norms.In addition, by viewing specifically trans, intersex, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people as theother, the founding national and institutional policy documents have likewise excluded their civil and human rights from a prior claim. As a result, a spate of state legislatures have either passed or have considered passing laws prohibiting trans (and by implication, intersex) people from entering public facilities that conform to their gender identities but may differ from the sex assigned to them on their birth certificates.And yes, the denial of bodily autonomy of theOtherconforms to a patriarchal heteronormative Christian white nationalist playbook: HistorianAmanda Tylerdefines Christian nationalism as,a political ideology and cultural framework that seeks to merge American and Christian identities, distorting both the Christian faith and Americas constitutional democracy. Christian nationalism relies on the mythological founding of the United States as a Christian nation, singled out for Gods providence in order to fulfill Gods purposes on earth. Christian nationalism demands a privileged place for Christianity in public life, buttressed by the active support of government at all levels.Anthea Butlerdistinguishes, more specifically, what is white Christian nationalism: Simply put, it is the belief that Americas founding is based on Christian principles, white protestant Christianity is the operational religion of the land, and that Christianity should be the foundation of how the nation develops its laws, principles and policies.So, dont be fooled! The recent Supreme Court case ofUnited States v. Skrmetti, has less to do with supposedly protecting trans youth and more to do with reaffirming a patriarchal heteronormative Christian white nationalist dominant norm.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

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Trans U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) has endured vile treatment by Republicans since becoming the first out transgender member of Congress. In a way, the freshman representatives experience on the Hill is a microcosm for what trans people are enduring under this administration across the country: senseless, cruelhearted attacks that eviscerate peoples mental and physical health while simultaneously wasting time and distracting from the actual issues plaguing Americans. Related Rep. Sarah McBride on GOP attacks: Theyre employing the strategies of reality TV. Americas first trans congressperson opens up. While many queer and trans people disagree about how McBride should handle the hate being hurled at her by her colleagues, it is perfectly clear that the current administration has made tthis new brand of publicly paraded anti-trans vitriol has become increasingly socially acceptable. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today During an appearance on Ezra Kleins podcast, McBride expressed her thoughts on why polls confirm that support for trans people has waned as of late. Candidly, I think weve lost the art of persuasion, she said. Weve lost the art of change-making over the last couple of years. Were not in this position because of trans people. There was a very clear, well-coordinated, well-funded effort to demonize trans people, to stake out positions on fertile ground for anti-trans politics and to have those be the battlegrounds rather than some of the areas where theres more public support. Were not in this position because of the movement or the community, but clearly what weve been doing over the last several years has not been working to stave it off or continue the progress that we were making eight, nine, 10 years ago.Sometimes we have to understand that not fighting, not taking the bait, is not a sign of weakness. Its not unprincipled. Discipline and strategy are signs of strength. Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE)She thinks the issues in messaging from the LGBTQ+ movement arose due to a false sense of securtity that spread after the Supreme Courts 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized marriage equality nationwide.There was a sense of cultural momentum that was this unending, cresting wave. There is this sense of a cultural victory that lulled us into a false sense of security and in many ways shut down needed conversations, McBride added.She said she thinks that many people who felt guilty for not initially supporting marriage equality decided not to make the same mistake again when it came to trans rights. Others, she said, merely decided its all the same movement so if they support one, they support the other. I think that resulted in a lot of us a lot of our movement stopping the conversation and ceasing doing the hard work of opening hearts and changing minds and telling stories that over 20 years had shifted and deepened understanding on gay identities that allowed for marriage equality to be built on solid ground, she said.The halted conversations, she said, also allowed misinformation campaigns to take hold and take advantage of that lack of understanding. The support for trans rights was a house built on sand, she declared.McBride also said she thinks the movement may have gone to Trans 201 or Trans 301 when people were still at a very much Trans 101 stage. Being expected to suddenly introduce yourself with pronouns and proactively support blurring the gender binary was simply too much too fast for a lot of people, she explained.We became absolutist not just on trans rights but across the progressive movement and we forgot that in a democracy we have to grapple with where the public authentically is and actually engage with it, she said. Politicians, she continued, have a duty of walking people to a place, rather than forcing them to catapult there.We should be ahead of public opinion, but we have to be within arms reach. If we get too far out ahead, we lose our grip on public opinion, and we can no longer bring it with us. And I think a lot of the conversations around sports and also some of the cultural changes that we saw in expected workplace behavior, etc. was the byproduct of maybe just getting too far out ahead and not actually engaging in the art of social change-making.She also said that it actually must be the communitys job to educate the wider public, but emphasized that doesnt mean the burden is on all of us. One of the problems weve had is that weve gone from: Its not my job as an individual person whos just trying to make it through the day to educate everyone to: No one from that community should educate, and frankly, we should just stop having this conversation because the fact that we are having this conversation at all is hurtful and oppressive,' she said.Maybe it is hurtful, but you cant foster social change if you dont have a conversation, she said. You cant change people if you exclude them. And I will just say, you cant have absolutism on the left or the right without authoritarianism.She pushed for the need for the movement not to alienate or cast out anyone who is not perfect on trans rights, like those who dont believe trans people should be discriminated against but are also unsure if they should freely participate in sports. Right now, the message from so many is, Youre not welcome, and your support for 90% of these policies is irrelevant,' McBride said. The fact that you diverge on one thing makes you evil. It is so harmful, and it completely betrays the lessons of every single social movement and civil rights movement in our countrys history, she added.Klein also asked McBride about the hate she has endured from House Republicans, led by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). McBride decided to ignore the attacks, which caused a lot of ire from her own community who thought she needed to boldly fight back. She strongly believes, however, that doing so would not have yielded anything but bad results. The first thing Id say is that the folks who were or are targeting me because of my gender identity in Congress are folks who, at this point, are really not working with any Democrats and can barely work with their own Republican colleagues, McBride said. I know that they are coming after me not because they are deeply passionate about bathroom policy. Theyre coming after me because theyre employing the strategies of reality TV. And the best way to get attention in a body of 435 people is to throw wine in someones face, McBride said.She said she would not be baited into a fight and give them not only the power of derailing me but the incentive to continue to come after me.Sometimes we have to understand that not fighting, not taking the bait, is not a sign of weakness. Its not unprincipled. Discipline and strategy are signs of strength, she said. She likened the situation to the young Black children walking calmly into newly integrated schools as people yelled slurs at them and said not responding was not normalizing the treatment they were enduring.Instead, what that student was doing was providing the public with a very clear visual, a very clear contrast, between unhinged hatred and basic dignity and grace, which is fundamental to humanity, she said.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

Authors of a new study out of Yale, NYU, and the Universidad Central Del Caribe School of Medicine in Puerto Rico say their findings indicate LGBTQ+ students in medical school are having a tougher time coping in the rigorous environment than their straight peers.In the study titled Intersectionality of Sexual Orientation, Race, and Ethnicity in Medical School Attrition, researchers found that LGBTQ+ med students drop out or are thrown out of medical school at a rate double or, in the case of lesbian, gay and bisexual Hispanic students, five times the rate of their straight white peers. Related Gay & bi men differ significantly when it comes to body image A study found that grouping gay and bi men together in research erases key differences between the groups. This cross-sectional study revealed high attrition rates among LGB medical students, with the highest observed among LGB Hispanic male and female students, the authors write. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Our findings highlight the importance of intersectionality in understanding attrition from medical school. Although future studies need to examine the cause of these disparities in attrition, LGB students experience discrimination within medical training environments, which may lead to risk of attrition.The authors cited previous research indicating lesbian, gay, and bisexual students bear a disproportionate burden of the mistreatment reported in medical schools, a spectrum of abusive behaviors including discrimination, assault, verbal abuse, and sexual harassment.That treatment has been associated with burnout, depression, alcohol abuse, increased cynicism, and medical school attrition. The outcomes are especially detrimental and concerning for women, racial/ethnic minorities, and sexual minorities.The authors say that some of the higher attrition rates could be the result of attitudes and encumbrances that students bring with them to medical school. Members of both the LGB and Hispanic communities may encounter less supportive attitudes toward homosexuality, often more prevalent among recent immigrants or first-generation households, and traditional cultural values around notions of masculinity, authority, and gender roles, perpetuating rigid expectations around sexuality and gender expression and alienating Hispanic LGB students, the researchers write.Trends in medical education have not explicitly included Hispanic-specific discrimination issues, inadvertently reducing social support for Hispanic students. Future qualitative studies should explore these intersecting challenges and address the elevated attrition rates.Bisexual med students had a higher rate of attrition (4.2%) than lesbian and gay students (3.7%). Gay, lesbian, and bisexual students had a higher rate than non-LGB students (2.4%). Men had a higher rate of attrition than women (2.8% vs. 2.2%), while Asian, Black, and Hispanic students had a higher rate (2.2%, 4.7%, 4.7%, respectively) than white students (2.0%).There was a direct correlation between how well students did on the MCAT entrance exam required for medical school and their dropout rate.The lowest quartile scores had an attrition rate of 4.5%; the highest quartile dropped out at a rate of just 1.4%.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

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