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Supreme Court to Decide on Trans Rights

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will decide if states can prohibit gender-affirming care for minors. This decision, expected next term, will affect laws in over two dozen states that restrict or criminalize transgender minors’ access to healthcare. The ruling will also determine if laws targeting transgender individuals are constitutionally questionable.

There is a chance the Supreme Court could surprise by mandating equality for trans Americans and their families. However, it seems more likely that the court will uphold bans on gender-affirming care for minors, potentially stripping constitutional protections from all transgender people across the country. This significant case marks the next civil rights showdown, coinciding with the second anniversary of Dobbs.

The case, U.S. v. Skrmetti, challenges a Tennessee law that prevents healthcare professionals from providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors based on sex. These treatments, endorsed by leading medical associations, are essential for children with gender dysphoria. Tennessee’s ban is part of a wave of legislation by Republicans to enforce a narrow definition of gender, accompanied by laws banning drag performances and penalizing those who assist minors in obtaining gender-affirming care out of state.

Last year, transgender minors and their parents sued to block Tennessee’s healthcare ban, arguing it violates their 14th Amendment rights. The plaintiffs claimed the state ban infringes on parents’ right to make medical decisions for their children and discriminates against minors based on sex. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit rejected these claims by a 2–1 vote, stating the due process clause does not protect the right to gender-affirming care and the equal protection clause is not violated as the law does not constitute sex discrimination.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the ACLU litigated this case, with the Supreme Court granting only the DOJ’s petition. The DOJ argued that Tennessee’s ban discriminates based on sex. The Supreme Court’s decision will address whether anti-trans discrimination constitutes sex discrimination under the 14th Amendment, requiring stringent justification for such laws.

A broad decision could affect not just gender-affirming care but also other laws limiting transgender rights in sports, public bathrooms, housing, education, and more. If the court rules that anti-trans laws trigger heightened scrutiny, these measures will be constitutionally suspect. A decision otherwise could uphold most discriminatory laws, erasing constitutional protections for transgender people.

There is cautious optimism based on the 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County ruling, where the Supreme Court found that discrimination against transgender individuals is based on sex. However, this case involved a statute, not the Constitution. While there is a possibility the court could extend Bostock’s reasoning, the current conservative majority may be reluctant to expand LGBTQ+ rights.

Both the DOJ and the ACLU urged the Supreme Court to take up Skrmetti as the last hope against the proliferation of restrictive laws. Despite the risks, they hope the court will recognize Tennessee’s law as sex-based discrimination. However, given the court’s conservative leanings, it is uncertain if they will protect the rights of transgender individuals.

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BCAMS Magazine, the 31st issue

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Cloudflare: Google Cloud Outage Disrupts Spotify, Discord, and Chaturbate for Thousands

June 12, 2025 – Thousands of users across Spotify, Discord, Google Cloud, and several adult camming platforms experienced service disruptions Thursday, as Cloudflare confirmed a third-party issue caused by a Google Cloud outage.

The incident, monitored by Downdetector, peaked with outage reports from 46,000 Spotify users, 14,000 Google Cloud users, and 11,000 Discord users. Additionally, services such as Snapchat, Character.ai, and major adult streaming platforms, including Chaturbate, Stripchat, and CamSoda, also saw widespread downtime.

A Cloudflare representative clarified that their core services were not impacted, but that “a limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were affected.” One of the affected components was Cloudflare Workers KV, a backend data storage tool that temporarily went offline.

Google Cloud, which accounts for 12% of the global cloud services market, acknowledged the problem, stating: “We are currently investigating a service disruption.” Users were referred to the public Google Cloud status dashboard for ongoing updates.

By Thursday afternoon, recovery began across several platforms. Cloudflare confirmed progress on their status page, and Spotify redirected users to Google’s dashboard for context. Similar recovery signals were noted across impacted camming sites, which rely on Google Cloud and Cloudflare infrastructure to deliver low-latency, high-reliability streaming.

This outage highlights the broad dependence on cloud giants like Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure. Past incidents — including an AWS outage in 2021 and a Cloudflare disruption in 2020 — have shown how interconnected platforms, including those in the adult entertainment industry, are equally exposed to upstream failures.

The incident serves as a reminder that platform resilience and service redundancy remain crucial in today’s cloud-powered digital ecosystem.

Source: Downdetector, CNN, Chaturbate

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Pornhub Exits France Over New Age Verification Law

Aylo, the operator behind major adult platforms including Pornhub, announced it is halting operations in France starting this Wednesday. The decision comes in response to a newly enforced French law requiring pornographic sites to implement enhanced age verification measures for their users.

An Aylo spokesperson described the legal requirements as posing a significant privacy risk, suggesting that age verification should be conducted at the device level rather than through invasive personal data collection.

Pornhub, the world’s most visited adult site, counts France as its second-largest market after the United States. The regulatory pressures facing Aylo and similar companies continue to grow globally, with the European Union now investigating whether platforms like Pornhub are sufficiently safeguarding minors.

Aylo has also withdrawn services from several U.S. states for similar reasons related to age verification mandates. In the UK, upcoming legislation will soon enforce stricter “age assurance” standards for all adult content providers.

The company, formerly known as Mindgeek and now owned by Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners, operates other well-known sites such as YouPorn and RedTube, which will likewise become inaccessible to French users.

Solomon Friedman, vice president of compliance at Aylo, criticized the French law as “dangerous,” “potentially privacy-infringing,” and “ineffective.” He argued that major tech companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft already have the capability to verify user age at the device or operating system level.

While Aylo supports the concept of age verification in principle, executives have expressed concerns over the collection of sensitive data, such as credit card information or government-issued IDs, as part of the verification process.

In response to the platform’s withdrawal, French Minister for Gender Equality Aurore Bergé commented “au revoir” on X, adding that the move would reduce minors’ exposure to “violent, degrading, and humiliating content” in France.

Source: bbc.com