Trump administration flips government’s stance on Tennessee law
MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The federal government no longer backs transgender minors and their families in Tennessee who are challenging a state ban on gender-affirming care, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court Friday, Feb.
7. The federal government has changed its position in U.S. v. Skrmetti and is now aligned with the Tennessee respondents in the landmark case challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming hormone therapies for transgender adolescents.
The court’s conservatives, at arguments in December, had already seemed likely to uphold the state ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments.
A decision is expected from the court by June. The challenge to Tennessee’s ban was originally brought on behalf of three transgender adolescents, their families and a Memphis-based physician by Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Tennessee and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
