The recent case of L.B. et al v. Premera Blue Cross, focused on threats against gender-affirming care for minors highlights the dangerous climate trans individuals currently live in. This case arose after Premera, a United States health insurance company, failed to provide transgender minors coverage for gender-affirming care.
L.B. et al v. Premera Blue Cross follows multiple attacks made on transgender individuals by Trump’s administration. With one executive order stating that sex is fixed at birth, and another prohibiting gender-affirming care for anyone under the age of 19, the current political and cultural climate is fostering violence towards transgender individuals. Expert Libby Adler, professor of law and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University, highlights how gender and the family are being used to not only create panic, but fuel the current autocracy.
The fate of the L.B. et al v. Premera Blue Cross case lies in the hands of a greater Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti, which is focused on whether or not a Tennessee law prohibiting gender affirming care for trans kids is a violation of the 14th amendment. The results of these cases will mark a great shift in the rights and safety of trans individuals.
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