A Lawyer's Take on Pediatric Gender Medicine

It's more logical than anything you'll hear from the doctors

Last updated June 19, 2025

This is an index of essays and X threads by Glenna Goldis about pediatric gender medicine (PGM) in the US, broken out by state.

General Background

• Free to Ban

  • The US Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s PGM ban in June 2025, all but assuring that other states’ bans are safe … except from attacks under their state constitutions.

• Chase Strangio’s Legal Narrative (Oct. 2024)

  • The trickery at the heart of the ACLU’s legal strategy

  • Note: in 2025, the ACLU revamped its strategy for newly-filed cases. It’s still trickery.

• Can Science Take Down Gender Doctors?

  • The role of evidence-based medicine in litigation

• David v. Goliath and the ACLU

  • The giant corporate law firms that partner with trans rights advocates in most PGM lawsuits

• Idaho Comes for the American Academy of Pediatrics

  • States are investigating the AAP over its pro-PGM “Policy Statement”

• The “Transgender Child” Is Born

  • How Americans got the idea to socially transition their young children

• The Assessment Sham

  • The Dutch Protocol is no more scientific than the affirmation model

• The Trans Teen Illusion (Part 1, Part 2)

  • Adults have been failing “trans” teens since the 1960s

Alabama

• Lawyers for “Trans Kids” Face Sanctions in Alabama (March 2024)

• ACLU Cover Up in Alabama? (June 2024)

• Court Sanctions Three Trans Rights Lawyers (Feb. 2025) (X thread)

• The bedraggled plaintiffs dropped their challenge to Alabama’s PGM ban on May 2, 2025.

Arkansas

The PGM Ban Trial (published as “The Brandt Files”)

• Introduction

• #1: Don’t Say Gay at the LGBTQ Rights Trial

  • Gayness

  • Gender nonconformity

• #2: On “Gender Identity”

• #3: Before the First Shot

  • Dan Karasic (psychiatrist)

  • WPATH guidelines

  • ROGD

• #4: Side Effects? Haven’t Seen ‘Em

  • Deanna Adkins (endocrinologist)

  • Side effects, risks, and complications

• #5: Mom and Dad Ace Obedience School

  • The pressures that parents face

  • Suicide myth

• #6: A Race-Baiter Takes the Stand

  • Jack Turban (psychiatrist)

  • Expert witness law

• #7: Our Heroes Scale the Hierarchy of Oppression

  • Equal protection law

  • Defining trans

• #8: Why not make a logical argument?

  • Gender dysphoria

  • Disability law

  • Past trans litigation

• #9: The ACLU’s Deal with the Doctors

  • Past trans litigation

  • ACLU lawyers

• #10: How Judge James M. Moody, Jr., Disposed of Arkansas

  • Stephen Levine (psychiatrist)

  • Religion

  • Media coverage

• #11: What They Didn’t Argue

  • Paul Hruz (endocrinologist)

  • Passing

  • The mythical biological basis of gender identity

The Appeal

• Arkansas Doesn’t Contest the “Facts”

  • Oral argument at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

  • We’re now waiting for the decision

Florida

• “Unrestrained Puberty”: Notes on the Florida Loss

• The ban is back in effect — for now. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the trial court’s ruling. We’re now waiting for oral argument in that court.

Minnesota

Tim Walz’s Sanctuary Law Could Bankrupt Families and Enable Domestic Violence

Missouri

In Nov. 2024, a state court upheld Missouri’s ban after trial. It’s headed to appeals now.

Ohio

The good guys' first trial win in Ohio state court (X thread)

Rhode Island

RI Dems Try to “Shield” Ivy League Gender Doctors

Tennessee

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Tennessee in June 2025. (Last link below.)

• Podcasts after oral argument at the Supreme Court

  • LGB Alliance USA with Candice Jackson, Carol, Arianne, Sylvia, and Jos

  • Unmuted with Jenny Poyer Ackerman

  • DIAG X Space with Hon. Elspeth Cypher (ret.) and Kara Danksy

• Who’s Who in US v. Skrmetti (published before oral argument)

• Biden administration’s brief (X thread)

• Historians’ amicus brief (X thread)

• Healthcare lobbyists’ amicus brief (X thread)

• Even more amicus briefs (X thread)

• Free to Ban

Texas

The plaintiffs dropped their challenge to Texas’ ban on PGM in November 2024.

Washington State

Testimony Reveals Fraud in Washington Gender Clinics