The Supreme Court announced this week that they would take up a case challenging the constitutionality of Tennessee’s ban against gender-affirming care for minors. Their decision – whether affirming or denying the ban – will be a huge pivotal point impacting our culture and the physical safety of the next generation.

In America today, 26 states have laws banning gender-affirming care on minors claiming to be transgender. Typically, these bans prohibit minors from receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or sex change surgeries.

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In some states, their bans also include requirements for bathroom usage, sports participation, and informing parents of their child’s social transitioning at school.

Conflicting Lower Court Opinions

It’s common for the Supreme Court to be asked to decide for the nation when there are conflicting opinions from lower courts. For instance, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Tennessee’s ban, while a federal court in Arkansas struck down that state’s ban, finding it violated First and Fourteenth Amendments.

The ACLU, Lambda Legal, and other trans-activist groups asked the Supreme Court to review the Sixth Court’s decision and resolve the confusing legal uncertainty among the states.  The Department of Justice filed its own challenge to Tennessee’s ban claiming a violation of the right to equal protection under the law.

Huge Impact on our Culture and Nation

Whichever way the court decides, the decision will apply to every state’s ban. Like Roe v. Wade (1973) that legalized and nationalized abortion, and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) that legalized and nationalized same-sex marriage, this case, entitled United States v. Skrmetti, could have a huge an impact on our culture.

In addition to the equal protection question, the Court will resolve issues of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as a parent’s right to make medical decisions to provide transgender care for their children. (Oddly enough, transgender activists and many states are hostile to the rights of parents who refuse gender-affirming care for their child, going so far as to take away their children.)

So far, the Court has said very little about transgender rights. In 2020, the Court issued a 6-3 decision in Bostock vs. Clayton County that transgender people cannot be discriminated against in the workplace. But then in April of 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that Idaho can enforce its ban while its being challenged in the lower courts.

The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics oppose the bans, as to most medical organizations. If the bans are struck down, gender-affirming care as practiced in the United States will leave vulnerable, confused, often mentally ill children and young adults permanently and physically damaged and often sterile.

U.S. Out of Step with U.K. and Europe on Transgender Care

In March of 2024, the UK National Health Service released the Cass Report analyzing the care for gender-questioning children and young adults. The four-year study conducted by Dr. Hillary Cass, former president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, sent shock waves throughout Britain.

In 400 pages of devastating findings, Dr. Cass bluntly asserts that “the entirety of gender medicine for young people is built on shaky foundations,” and study results have been “exaggerated or misrepresented.”  She also states that children have been let down by a lack of research and evidence on standard gender care practices. As a result, the NHS has halted its practice of giving puberty blockers to children.

The U.K. is not alone. According to Forbes, European nations such as Norway, Finland, Sweden, and the Netherlands are limiting transgender care to minors after reviews have shown a “low certainty of benefits” for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Meanwhile, the United States current medical care remains focused on transitioning as many children and young adults as fast as they can. The coming Supreme Court decision will either put the brakes on gender-affirming care or open the floodgates.

Floodgates May Open to the Transgender Lie

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the fall with a decision to be released in June 2025. We must pray that the Supreme Court acts in accordance with God’s law and His righteousness.

Will the Supreme Court rule that transgender people are being discriminated against and open up the floodgates for irreversible damaging medical treatments for our children sterilizing them in the process?

Or will we return to commonsense, “do no harm” care for minor children suffering from gender dysphoria where 98% of children grow out of any gender confusion?

In addition to medical care, the coming Supreme Court decision could also drastically change our culture with unintended circumstances. For instance, if state bans are declared unconstitutionally discriminatory, this ruling could be the basis for more lawsuits to allow:

• increasing indoctrination of the LGBTQ agenda in public schools,
• the proliferation of LGBTQ graphic literature in libraries,
• biological males competing against females in sports, which is injuring women and destroying women’s sports,
• the grooming of children into dangerous sexual situations, such as pornography and pedophilia,
• the invasion of biological males into female spaces, such as bathrooms, locker rooms, spas, sorority houses and women’s prisons,
• the removal of children by the State from parents who do not support the transgendering of their child

As Christians, we know that God created each person male or female. This is a godly truth that cannot be altered. You are as God made you.

Yet Satan is deceiving our children, the mainstream media, medical professionals, lawyers, judges, and government officials, including many members of Congress and the President. This Supreme Court decision will be critical in this spiritual battle and could turn the tide in the spiritual battle for our children and the next generation.

Here’s How to Pray!

We must earnestly pray for godly wisdom to prevail in the Supreme Court and for justices to judge wisely and humbly.

• Pray for godly truth, wisdom, and revelation to be poured into each justice’s heart as they look to the wisdom above, not on worldly wisdom. Help them understand that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
• Pray that they will be guided by the Holy Spirit in analyzing the oral arguments and facts of this case and give them a godly perspective during their deliberations.
• Pray that each justice will look to God to make a righteous decision and the light of God’s truth and Word will shine in their written decision.
• Pray the justices will act courageously to defend the weak and gender-confused, and to do God’s will free from fear of the anger of the mob.
• Pray for the spiritual and physical protection of the justices and their families from the enemy.

Indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God (Proverbs 2:3-5).

Belinda Brewster analyzes cultural, political, and world events from a biblical worldview. Belinda’s passion is to equip, support, and encourage parents and grandparents who are courageously battling against the spiritual and cultural forces impacting children and grandchildren. Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.