The justices will likely hear the case in the fall, close to the November presidential election.
Protesters of Kentucky Senate Bill SB150, known as the Transgender Health Bill, cheer on speakers during a rally on the lawn of the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky on March 29, 2023. | Timothy D. Easley/AP
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.
The Tennessee law, known as SB1, bans hormone treatments or surgeries that are intended to allow a minor “to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or to treat “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.”on such care, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Other states such as Illinois, Colorado and Minnesota have passed bills protecting health care for transgender youth.
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