Supreme court lgbtq+ 2025

The decision in Skrmetti v. U.S. is not the end of the road. We can, and must, reveal up for transitioned youth in the courts and in our communities.

The decision in Skrmetti v. U.S. is not the end of the road. We can, and must, exhibit up for transitioned youth in the courts and in our communities.

Last week, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to trans youth, their families and the communities that sustain them. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court commanded in Skrmetti v. U.S. that SB1— Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors —does not illegally discriminate against individuals on the basis of sex or transgender status. This allows Tennessee, and any other states that may choose to trail its discriminatory head, to ban medically-necessary health care for minors.

As one of the Tennessee parents challenging this disallow put it, “the Supreme Court’s judgment on Wednesday will make it even harder for our daughter to find lifesaving health nurture. It will injure the lawsuit’s unnamed families and those that come after us, with younger kids just starting to understand and express themselves.”

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Supreme Court Sides With Parents in Homosexual Curriculum Opt-Out Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday governed that parents include a religious free exercise right to have their children excused from the use of LGBTQ+-themed storybooks in schools.

The 6-3 decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor is significant for schools across the nation as it will allow parents with religious concerns to remove their children or possibly raise other objections to a range of curricular decisions. The court said the school board’s refusal to grant opt-outs unconstitutionally burdened the parents’ right to direct their children’s religious upbringing.

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. emphasized that the Constitution protects parents’ rights to guide their children’s religious training.

“We have elongated recognized the rights of parents to direct ‘the religious upbringing of their children,’” he wrote. “And we contain held that those rights are violated by government policies that substantially interfere with the religious development of children.”

The decision, joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Bar

Quick Hits

A federal district court recently vacated parts of the EEOC’s guidance related to workplace harassment of LGBTQ+ employees.
Despite the Supreme Court’s holding in Bostock that discrimination based on sex in hiring or firing decisions violates Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination, the district court vacated the guidance based on the guidance’s “expanded” definition of sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
The court dictated that the EEOC exceeded its statutory authority by requiring accommodations related to bathrooms, dress, and pronouns, which it found changeable with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and recent Supreme Court precedent.
This decision follows President Trump’s executive order recognizing sex as binary and immutable, which has created uncertainty for employers regarding compliance with federal, state, and local antidiscrimination laws.

Background

In vacating the EEOC’s guidance related to LGBTQ+ workplace harassment, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas held that the EEOC’s April 2024 “Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace” overstepped by stating Title V

2025 Legislative Session: LGBTQ+ Rights and Trans Justice

Each year, we see the anti-LGBTQ+ movement become stronger and more calculated, building upon restrictive laws to proceed loosening the threads of our democracy. Emboldened by a federal government antagonistic to the LGBTQ+ people, we know attacks on transgender and queer folks will continue escalating in the coming months and years.

Next year, we predict many anti-LGBTQ+ bills will resurface, likely with a more determined approach. We anticipate continued attacks on trans folk’s ability to exist and express themselves, such as a kingly ban and restrictions around birth certificates. We also foresee increased attacks on the entire LGBTQ+ society, with a likely reintroduction of legislation like HJM 1, which requests the U.S. Supreme Court overturn gay marriage.

While the Queer community is currently facing the brunt of these discriminatory attacks, such endeavors are laying the groundwork for a large-scale assault on everyone’s rights. We will not allow our constitutional freedoms to grow a thing of the past.

For more than 30 years, the ACLU of Idaho has withstood unfriendly environments to protect the rights of all