The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical services for children.
The justices will weigh an appeals court ruling that upheld the state’s ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgery for minors.
The court will take up the case during its next term, which starts in October and ends in June of next year.
Depending on the ruling, the decision could affect not only Tennessee’s ban but other state bans on the same transgender medical interventions for minors.
More than 20 states with Republican-led legislatures have similar bans.
This is not the first time the high court has waded into the raging controversies around trans-identifying minors. In April, the court allowed Idaho to enforce its ban on transgender medical interventions for minors except on the two teenagers who sued over the law.
However, the court has…
