A more liberal Supreme Court would have looked at the recent record (trans people didn’t exist until recently, so there is no long pattern of official discrimination) and created a new suspect class for trans people. There was never any possibility the current conservative body would do that. In addition, there was a plausible, if not overwhelming, argument that the disputed classification in this case was based on age, not sex. Finally, the medical profession is not united on the proper care for teens with gender identity issues, even though trans extremists like to pretend it is. As a result, the Court’s decision in this case was completely predictable, and while I do not welcome it–I would prefer that medical decisions be made by doctors without coercion by either the state or influential activists–I am not outraged by it.