How the Supreme Court’s transgender care case could reverberate across health care Beyond implications for trans minors and adults, the court’s ruling could affect how states regulate health care

https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/04/supreme-court-transgender-rights-tennessee-bars-minors-from-gender-affirming-care/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8nCbeAhxHAI4OpBWnXnL9jXNxB43-tnmll4n82WZn1zAGC4ZbgZ9t40Ot7CiosvhLQFcqdFVQKMDZwR_Ro4JeKceE1ng&_hsmi=346446342&utm_content=346446342&utm_source=hs_email U.S. DOJ switches position on trans Supreme Court case In December, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, which challenges Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth. Under former President Joe Biden, the U.S. Department of Justice argued that the ban constituted sex discrimination and asked the justices to send it back to a lower court to be assessed with a higher level of judicial scrutiny. On Friday, the DOJ, now under the Trump administration, sent a letter to the Supreme Court reversing its position. While Trump’s DOJ has determined the ban is not sex discrimination, it is not asking for the case to be dismissed, deputy solicitor general Curtis E. Gannon writes. Rather, the court should decide the case, in part because the ruling could have an effect on other, similar cases currently in lower courts. The court is set to decide on the case later this spring. Before the arguments, I wrote about the implications the ruling could have, not just on access to gender-affirming care for trans people, but on how states are able to regulate health care more broadly. Read that story here. Conservative-led Supreme Court appears wary of weighing in on trans care bans Questions from the justices suggested they could kick the case back to a lower court https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/04/supreme-court-transgender-case-tennessee-ban-gender-affirming-care-minors/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-92R4fCPABa6ur9xy7ZqDmNsRgLu_SlUhrDMcG-pm4gzQJIj_IBcqtFS4NhDwGfviK_lpuGoyZJ0SjkIqtWTrg-p7ycCA&_hsmi=346446342&utm_content=346446342&utm_source=hs_email