Supreme Court Signals Support for Laws Curbing Trans Care (2)

The US Supreme Court suggested it’s likely to uphold laws that ban gender-affirming treatments for minors as the justices considered a case that could determine the rights of transgender children in two dozen states.

Hearing arguments in Washington, five of the court’s conservatives voiced skepticism at contentions by the Biden administration and affected families that a Tennessee law violates the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee.

“It seems to me that we look to the Constitution, and the Constitution doesn’t take sides on how to resolve that medical and policy debate,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh said.

The case comes at a fraught ...