US Supreme Court schedules transgender rights case for December

Lori Dee · October 18, 2024, 04:34:27 PM

Supreme Court schedules transgender rights case for December
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SCOTUSblog - Amy Howe (This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.)
Oct 18, 2024, at 12:05 pm

The Supreme Court's December argument session will feature the challenge to Tennessee's ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors, ...

The justices will hear oral arguments on Dec. 4 in one of the highest-profile cases of the term so far, United States v. Skrmetti. The case is a challenge to a law that Tennessee enacted in 2023 to ban gender-affirming care for transgender patients under the age of 18.

Three transgender teenagers and their parents went to federal court to challenge the law; the Biden administration joined the case under a law that allows the government to intervene in private cases alleging violations of the constitutional right to equal protection under the law. A federal judge agreed with them that the law's ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teens violates the Constitution because the law allows similar treatments for young people wishing to conform to the sex they were assigned at birth. But a federal appeals court reversed that decision, prompting the Biden administration to come to the Supreme Court, which agreed last summer to weigh in.

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US Supreme Court schedules transgender rights case for December

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