MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels welcomed Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern to Saturday’s installment of The Weekend to react to the Supreme Court upholding Tennessee’s law that bans so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors earlier in the week. As Stern would tell it, the Court refuses to block “bigoted” laws that are necessary for people to live.
Fumbling over his words, Daniels, who is still the president of the White House Correspondents Association, began with more of a declaration than a question, “Mark, the impact of this ruling on transgender youth, whether these kind of trigger laws are going to go into effect or they're feeling more as targets of this country, is what's happening here. That's the impact of what we're seeing.”
Stern began his series of lamentations by reminding people it isn’t just Tennessee, “Absolutely. And nearly half the states, as you said. There will now be laws in effect that prohibit minors from accessing gender-affirming care. And beyond that, a number of states, including big ones like Florida, are trying to extend this further to adults. To prohibit adults from accessing treatments that are considered necessary and sometimes lifesaving for transgender people.”
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