Matt Ford at The New Republic, on the poorly reasoned Supreme Court decision in United States v. Skrmetti (which I referenced in passing), under the headline “The Supreme Court’s Anti-Transgender Ruling Is a Tortured Mess”:

It is fitting that Roberts wrote the majority opinion in United States v. Skrmetti because it is representative of his court’s slipshod approach to major, high-profile cases. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority effectively engineered a landmark case on transgender rights in which no transgender person is a named litigant, reducing them and their interests to an easily ignored abstraction. The result is tortured reasoning, misapplied precedents, and a transparently outcome-oriented ruling. […]

The ruling, on its own terms, drew sharp criticism from the court’s three liberal justices. In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor castigated the majority for what she saw as a blow to sex-based discrimination protections in general—and for the impact it would have on transgender Americans across the country. “By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims,” she wrote. “In sadness, I dissent.”

The Tennessee law notes PBS News:

bans puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender minors, but it allows the same drugs to be used for other purposes.

The logical hoops the Court jumped through to reach this conclusion boggle the mind. The world continues to trample over transgender rights, and there’s no end in sight. It’s sickening.