Not even feigned impartiality comes through in transgender activists’ interactions with the Supreme Court’s recent United States v. Skrmetti ruling. To the legacy media and the dissenting justices, the decision is strictly unreasonable.

After Skrmetti’s arguments in December 2024, justices released their opinions this past Wednesday, revealing a 6-3 ruling in favor of upholding Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1, which restricts transgender procedures on minors. The state implemented restrictions on the practice in 2023, prohibiting puberty blockers and hormones from being administered for the purpose of sex transition to anyone under the age of 18. The American Civil Liberties Union then filed a lawsuit against Tennessee’s attorney general, and the U.S. government joined to argue that the law is unconstitutional under the equal protection clause.