One of the most critical decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2025 involves a case argued before the justices in early December—U.S. v. Skrmetti. The high court will decide whether the state of Tennessee may protect minors from experimental, life-altering transgender medical protocols such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone injections and surgical manipulation. For many, transgender medicine is the largest medical scandal in our nation’s history, resulting in heart-wrenching stories of wrecked lives.
To be completely upfront, the reason for this article is a call to get on our knees and pray for a clear and decisive victory to protect children and youth in Tennessee and across the country from reckless, unsubstantiated, harmful and often irreversible medical experiments.
This case has massive implications for at least two reasons. First, if you have ever listened to the testimony of a sterile, regretful, broken 20-year-old detransitioning woman, and tears don’t pour from your eyes, you don’t have a heart. Young lives are permanently damaged, and no one warned them. Affirming parents, teachers, counselors and medical professionals drank the ideological potion, seemingly oblivious to the irreversible, life-altering consequences such as sterility. This in itself is enough reason to petition our Lord for mercy, goodness and righteousness to prevail in the Supreme Court’s decision, which is expected by July. The questions posed during the hearing by the conservative majority point to the likelihood of a favorable ruling, the Wall Street Journal reported, but there are no guarantees.
Will the court understand the plight of detransitioners whose lives are forever changed, abandoned by the “progressive” medical establishment that failed to warn them? Will the justices consider that children struggling with gender dysphoria will conform to their actual body 85% of the time by the end of puberty and over 90% of the time by adulthood? These factors alone show that Tennessee acted reasonably, honorably and wisely to protect minors from dubious hormone and surgical interventions with no good science showing helpful long-term outcomes.
Undeniably, this is a case of historical consequence for our nation. Tennessee desires to protect children and youth from medicalized transitions that have lifelong effects and hold reckless medical practitioners accountable. State lawmakers’ duty to love, care for and protect minors should never be trumped by elevating gender identity to a special, untouchable constitutional status. States should be free to legislate by the medical reality that biological sex matters and that medicalized transition does real, lasting harm. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
But even as it seems nearly impossible to make a living, there are blessings that should not be disregarded. By highlighting strong sponsors who share our America First worldview, we have been able to make lifelong connections and even a bit of revenue to help us along. This is why we enjoy symbiotic relationships with companies like MyPillow, Jase Medical, and Promised Grounds. We help them with our recommendations and they reward us with money when our audience buys from them.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
