City Journal has published my new essay, "The Transgender Tide Has Turned at the Supreme Court." This piece was largely inspired by the lopsided ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, but reflected some of my observations over the past year about Schilling, Skrmetti, Mahmoud, Orr, Mirabelli, and B.P.J. Here is the introduction:
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Progressive like to cite this maxim because, in their view, the arc inevitably bends in one direction: to the left. Except when it doesn't.
Over just six years, the American public's perception of transgender rights has swung like a pendulum from the left to the right. Perhaps nothing illustrates this movement more clearly than six recent Supreme Court decisions recognizing that parents and governments may indeed preserve traditional understandings of gender.
And the conclusion:
