SCOTUS to hear arguments on gender-affirming care for minors

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments concerning the legality of gender-affirming care for minors, a practice that is currently banned in Tennessee and 25 other states. Tennessee’s law prohibits puberty blockers and gender-transition surgeries for children who identify as transgender.

The Tennessee ban was passed after investigative reporting by The Daily Wire revealed that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville was providing hormone therapy drugs to children as young as 13 and performing double mastectomies on teenage girls.

Dr. Shayne Taylor, who works at Vanderbilt’s Clinic for Transgender Health, said on camera that hormone therapies and surgeries for transgender individuals are a “money-making operation.”

“Some of our VUMC financial folks in August of, I’m sorry, October of 2016 started a couple of years ago, put down some costs of how much money we think each patient would bring in,” Dr. Taylor said in a video streamed to Facebook. “And this is only including top surgery, this isn’t including any bottom surgery, and it’s a lot of money. These surgeries make a lot of money. So, female-to-male chest reconstruction could bring in $40,000. A patient just on routine hormone treatment who you may only see a few times a year can bring in several thousands of dollars through a lot of visits and labs that actually makes money for the hospital.”

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