Mick Hartley

In a nutshell:

The ACLU think its cruel to give sex offenders drugs that chemically castrate them.
The same ACLU thinks it's a human right to give innocent children the same drugs to 'affirm their gender identity'.#DefundTheACLU https://t.co/9p8iMfpGaj pic.twitter.com/5KNeOSHMCM

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The ACLU has become a single-issue organisation, now almost entirely concerned with trans activism.

It was suggested by Judge Alito to ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio in the current SCOTUS trans rights case that the Cass Review blew a hole in the standard trans line that puberty blockers saved lives…."better a trans kid than a dead kid". Strangio admitted that maybe suicides weren't affected, but, um, "suicidality" was.

As far as I can see (and admittedly I haven't spent much time checking) the majority of the US mainstream press (NYT, WaPo, etc.) see the SCOTUS case as a brave move against nasty right-wing attempts to deny trans children the benefits of "gender-affirming care". For a start the use of that heart-warming phrase "gender-affirming care" skews the whole debate, because of course to call it by what it really is – the medical mutilation of troubled children and the denial of every child's right to go through puberty, in pursuit of a homophobic and regressive social contagion based on gender stereotypes – would be too unpleasantly clear about what's really going on here. 

The Nation, for instance, (OK not properly mainstream, but mainstream views here) with this embarrassing nonsense (via b&w):

Today, the Supreme Court will hear a case, United States v. Skrmetti, deciding whether to uphold these regulations of what trans medicine’s critics have unduly called “experimental” healthcare. To the contrary, leading medical associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) firmly support gender-affirming care for minors as “medically necessary” and potentially lifesaving. So, if the medical establishment isn’t driving this narrative of dangerous uncertainty, who is?

For the past several years, conservative political leaders and fringe medical voices have waged an often covert campaign against gender-affirming care. Borrowing from fossil fuel, tobacco, and Covid-19 science denial strategies, these agents of scientific uncertainty have cast doubt on trans medicine’s safety and efficacy. Just like those “merchants of doubt” who spread untruths about humanity’s impact on the climate and the dangers of secondhand smoke, extraordinarily well-funded groups have spread the idea that gender-affirming care’s evidence base is perilously uncertain.

"Fringe medical voices". You get the picture.