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Natural Law Moment Episode 4: Avoiding the Central Question: Post-Skrmetti Analysis
Aug 12 2025
Join us for this fourth episode in our new Natural Law Moment podcast! Hadley Arkes and Gerry Bradley take up the challenge of analyzing the Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case about a Tennessee law prohibiting sex-transition surgeries and treatments for minors. They drill down to the core question, whether these surgeries are defensible or if they are child-mutilation, a question that the Court studiously avoided. They consider what this will mean for lower courts as they judge cases surrounding the issue, including medical malpractice, detransitioners, women's sports, parental rights, and more. Recognizing the real truths regarding gender and sex provides the clearest answer to all of these questions, but the Court has refused to follow that path.
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