Supreme Court Fails to Examine State Laws Barring Children From Counseling for Gender Dysphoria

Commentary California was the first state to make it illegal for counselors to help minors feel more comfortable in their biological sex. If a child is suffering from gender dysphoria, California law effectively says, “Too bad, embrace it.” More than 20 states followed, including Washington state, a ban which was challenged by a counselor and taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. But the court, which the left regularly trashes as a far-right tool of the Republican party, this week declined to review the law, letting stand the far-left Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling approving it. This same Supreme Court last year failed to overturn the Biden administration’s border policy which lets millions of illegal immigrants enter our country simply by asserting political asylum, even though they are no longer in the country from which they supposedly need the asylum. They are often handed a cell phone and assisted with travel in exchange for a promise to appear at a court hearing years down the road, at which time most will be determined not to qualify for asylum....