Supreme Court to consider challenge to Tenn. law challenging gender-affirming case for minors
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans health care providers from offering gender-affirming care to transgender minors.
Tennessee lawmakers approved the law in 2023. A federal judge in Nashville issued a temporary injunction against portions of the statute before it was to have taken effect on July 1, 2023.
The 6th U.S. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last September rejected a request to block the law the Justice Department has also challenged. “The future of countless transgender youth in this and future generations rests on this court adhering to the facts, the Constitution, and its own modern precedent,” said Chase Strangio, deputy director for transgender justice at the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBTQ and HIV Project, on Monday in a press release. “These bans represent a dangerous and discriminatory affront to the well-being of transgender youth across the country and their constitutional right to equal protection under the law.
They are the result of an openly political effort to wage war on a marginalized group and our most fundamental freedoms.” “We want transgender people and their families across the country to know we will spare nothing in our defense of you, your loved ones, and your right to decide whether to get this medical care,” added Strangio.
