Supreme Court schedules transgender rights case for December

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2. Ground is set for Dec. 4 arguments in SCOTUS case over trans care ban

Ground is set for Dec. 4 arguments in SCOTUS case over trans care ban
Chase Strangio will argue for the trans kids whose treatment Tennessee has banned. Also: The latest with Robert Roberson in Texas and the Virginia voter-purge lawsuit.

Chris Geidner
Oct 22, 2024

Over the past few days, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a set of orders that solidify the landscape for what will almost certainly be one of the most important cases the court decides this term: U.S. v. Skrmetti.

The case over Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming medical care — specifically, puberty blockers and hormone therapy — for transgender minors has been on the court’s docket for this term since June. At that point, the court granted review of the Justice Department’s case for the Biden administration, an argument that the law violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws and, as such, a 2023 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upholding Tennessee’s law should be overturned.

Under a Monday order from the justices, both the Justice Department and the private plaintiffs who originally challenged the law will have lawyers arguing against it in court, as they requested. Just a few days earlier, the court announced its December argument calendar, which included the news that it will be hearing Skrmetti on Wednesday, December 4.

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