Supreme Court just threw out four pro-trans rulings

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Supreme Court just threw out four pro-trans rulings

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Story by John Russell (3 July 2025)

In the wake of its devastating anti-trans ruling last month in U.S. v. Skrmetti, the U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out pro-trans decisions in four states.

On Monday, June 30, the justices ordered appellate court judges in San Francisco, Denver, and Richmond, Virginia, to reconsider previous rulings that found that state laws and policies in Idaho, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and West Virginia violated trans people's right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment, according to the Associated Press.

The move follows the Court's 6-3 decision in Skrmetti, which found that a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors experiencing gender dysphoria does not violate the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause by discriminating on the basis of sex or transgender status, as plaintiffs in the case argued. The ruling allows 25 states to enforce similar bans and serves as precedent in other cases involving transgender people's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.

...the Supreme Court ordered the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reconsider its ruling that Idaho's ban on coverage for specific gender-affirming surgeries for low-income trans people on its Medicaid program violated the Equal Protection Clause.

...in Denver, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals must now revisit its June 2024 ruling in Fowler v. Stitt that Oklahoma's ban on trans people updating their birth certificates to reflect their gender identity also violated the Equal Protection Clause.