The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming care for minors in a 6-3 ruling. Legal experts fear the ruling could set a tone for how the courts handle transgender rights and sex discrimination cases for years to come.
Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion while Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. In the ruling, the court held that the Tennessee ban was “not subject to heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause,” allowing the ban to remain in place.
This decision focused solely on Tennessee’s ban, foreclosing most medical care options to transgender youth in the state. It also marks the second blow the Supreme Court has dealt to transgender rights advocates recently, after the highest court allowed President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender service members in the military to take effect in May.
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