Remember when we all understood that God created us male and female? A lot of people seem to have forgotten that foundational truth.
In a return to sanity, this week, the Supreme Court recognized it anew. 6 justices ruled that the State of Tennessee has the right to protect children from life-altering medical “transition” treatments.
The Court’s decision in United States v. Skrmetti is a long-overdue affirmation of biological reality, parental rights, and common sense. In upholding Tennessee’s right to protect minors from irreversible medical interventions, the Court has delivered a major win for sanity, science, and the sacred dignity of the human body.
This is indeed a turning point, but it is not even close to the end of the fight.
There is still more work to be done to ensure our children are safe. We need to protect girls from having boys invade their locker rooms and their sports teams. And we need every state to pass laws ending these trans surgeries on minors.
As a former NCAA basketball player at the University of Notre Dame, this decision also speaks to me on a deeply personal level. I know firsthand the hard work, discipline, and sacrifice that women’s sports require – and the unique dignity of female athletic achievement. Protecting children from harmful ideologies and preserving fair competition for women and girls is not just a political stance. It’s a moral imperative rooted in truth and love.
This decision is about more than courtrooms and state legislatures. It’s about protecting the next generation – physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It’s about ensuring that parents have the right to care for their children according to their conscience, not according to activist dogma. And it’s about standing firm, as Catholics and as Americans, for the integrity of the human body and the beauty of the truth.
And what’s more… YOU helped to make this landmark ruling possible.
CatholicVote has been working for years to change the trajectory of the Supreme Court, and your support gave us the spiritual and financial means to do it.
You don’t always see what your individual votes actually accomplish in any one election cycle. But with this ruling, you can see what your support over 10 years has done to preserve the innocence of children.
Thank you! And congratulations on YOUR victory.
Everyone who has supported CatholicVote in prayer and through other means has played an essential role in creating the conditions for this Supreme Court decision.
And THAT is the strength of the CatholicVote community!