The Supreme Court has carried a heavy load in recent months, having to legally sort out issues that previous justices likely never thought possible.

In the aftermath of overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, the nation's most prestigious justices have also had to cope with the issues of the Second Amendment on multiple occasions and a number of gender issues, as the Daily Caller reported.

In a recent decision on gender ideology and kids, Justice Clarence Thomas called into question the court's willingness to accept the definitions ascribed to the individuals attempting to redefine the limits of society as fundamentally as that of gender.

From Thomas

In a concurring opinion with the majority decision in a recent case that was published on Wednesday, Thomas criticized the courts for making the assumption that "self-described experts" are always right.

The statute that prohibits child sex change procedures in Tennessee was maintained by the Supreme Court of the United States, which determined that the law does not violate the Equal Protection Clause.

“This case carries a simple lesson: In politically contentious debates over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty, courts should not assume that self-described experts are correct,” Thomas wrote in a concurrence.

Deference Where Due

According to Thomas, the courts ought to defer to legislative experts, particularly considering that medical professionals had already weighed in on what is almost certianly a matter of opinion.

Thomas pointed to the medical experts who “declared a consensus around the efficacy of treating children’s gender dysphoria with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.

“They have dismissed grave problems undercutting the assumption that young children can consent to irreversible treatments that may deprive them of their ability to eventually produce children of their own,” Thomas wrote.

“They have built their medical determinations on concededly weak evidence. And, they have surreptitiously compromised their medical recommendations to achieve political ends.”

When The Decision is Reversed

The judge then turned his attention to “detransitioners” who are individuals who regret undergoing medical procedures to change their gender, raising another cause for concern.

“States have an interest in ensuring that minor patients have the time and capacity to fully understand the irreversible treatments they may undergo,” he said.

The Trump Department of Health and Human Services reported in May that evidence-based medical interventions for gender dysphoria in children may cause harms such as infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret.

In a January executive order, Trump prohibited agencies from citing "junk science" standards from the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, resulting in reduced federal funding for kid sex modifications.