Justice Sotomayor Compares Risks of Child Sex Changes to Taking an Aspirin
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday compared the risks of child sex changes to taking an aspirin.
J. Matthew Rice, Tennessee’s solicitor general who is defending the constitutionality of his state’s law banning children from receiving sex changes, cross-sex hormones and puberty stunters, asked the court: “How many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed [from these child sex change procedures] for unproven benefits?”
Sotomayor interjected, “I’m sorry counselor, every medical treatment has risk — even taking aspirin.”
