The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Tennessee law that bans gender transition care for people younger than 18. The case will be the first opportunity the justices have to consider the constitutionality of such restrictions, which 23 states have passed since 2021.
Legal experts have long thought the Supreme Court would eventually have to rule on whether these bans violate the Constitution, but the court has great flexibility in deciding when and how to take cases. The Tennessee case had been on and off the Supreme Court's list of cases for consideration at their private conference for several months before the announcement Monday.
In a separate case in April, the high court allowed Idaho to broadly enforce its ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors while litigation continues before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The Supreme Court's brief order, which said the ban could not immediately apply to the two transgender teens who sued the state, did not address the overall constitutionality of prohibiting care.
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