The Supreme Court agreed Monday to enter the national debate surrounding gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
The justices will review the constitutionality of a Tennessee law, enacted last year, that bans hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender minors. The court’s decision will affect a wave of other state laws passed in recent years that restrict gender-affirming care for minors.
Families and a doctor, with the support of the Biden administration, challenged the Tennessee law. They argued that the law violates the 14th Amendment by discriminating on the basis of sex. After a federal appeals court upheld the law, the challengers and the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to weigh in.
Laws like Tennessee’s “inflict profound harms on transgender adolescents and their families,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in her petition to the high court last November. The laws deny medical treatment that families and doctors have determined “are appropriate and necessary to treat a serious medical condition,” Prelogar wrote
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