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Federal courts have splintered over the issue, intensifying pressure on #SCOTUS to intervene.
The move comes as states around the country have pushed to curtail #transgender rights. #Conservative lawmakers have prioritized #legislation in recent years that targets #gender #transition care & at least 20 #Republican-led states have enacted measures restricting access to such #medical care for minors.
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The #Biden admin had asked the justices to take up the case, United States v. Skrmetti, arguing that the measure outlaws treatment for #gender dysphoria in youths & “frames that prohibition in explicitly sex-based terms.”
In the government’s petition to #SCOTUS, Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar wrote that the #law bans #transgender #medical care but that it “leaves the same treatments entirely unrestricted if they are prescribed for any other purpose.”
#SCOTUS Will Hear Challenge to #Tennessee #Law Banning #Transition Care for Minors
The state law bans #HealthCare providers from offering #gender transition care to children.
The #SupremeCourt agreed on Mon to decide whether a Tennessee law that bans certain #medical treatments for #transgender minors violates the Constitution.