Supreme Court Signals Support for Tennessee’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled on Wednesday their willingness to uphold a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors in a major case that could affect various other state laws targeting transgender people.

The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, heard arguments in an appeal by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration of a lower court’s decision upholding Tennessee’s law barring medical treatments such as puberty blockers and hormones for people under age 18 experiencing gender dysphoria.

Read more at Reuters.