FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18, 2025
BOISE — Idaho Family Policy Center, a pro-family Christian ministry, celebrates the U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding a Tennessee law that prevents sex change drugs and surgeries for children.
Chief Justice Roberts explained in the majority opinion that the Tennessee Legislature “proclaimed a ‘legitimate, substantial, and compelling interest in protecting minors from physical and emotional harm’” when they found that “the prohibited medical treatments are experimental, can lead to later regret, and are associated with harmful—and sometimes irreversible—risks.”
This landmark decision comes more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened to allow a similar law called the “Vulnerable Child Protection Act” to go into effect here in Idaho.
The “Vulnerable Child Protection Act” was drafted and championed by Idaho Family Policy Center, and it was sponsored by Rep. Bruce Skaug (R-Nampa) and Sen. Lori Den Hartog (R-Meridian). The Idaho law went into effect on April 15, 2024.
A statement from Blaine Conzatti, President of Idaho Family Policy Center:
We celebrate the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Tennessee state law protecting children struggling with gender dysphoria.
State legislatures across the country are reviewing the data and coming to the conclusion that it’s time to ban mutilating sex change drugs and surgeries for gender-confused children.
The evidence is clear: these so-called ‘gender-affirming treatments’ wreak havoc on developing bodies. Laws like these are necessary to protect gender-confused children from medically unnecessary drugs and procedures that result in lifelong harms.
About Idaho Family Policy Center
Idaho Family Policy Center is a ministry that advances the lordship of Christ in the public square through engaging the church, promoting God-honoring public policy, and training statesmen.
