The Memphis gynecologist, one of the plaintiffs who challenged the law in a case going before theU.S. Supreme Courton Dec. 4, recalled the “hype and hysteria” as public debate coarsened over the issue. “Why all of a sudden it’s a problem is a little bit hard to understand,” sa...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a case involving a group of Wisconsin parents who sued their children’s school district over a policy meant to support transgender students, letting two lower court rulings dismissing the case stand. In a brief, unsigned order, the ...
The Trump administration has told the Supreme Court that the federal government no longer backs transgender minors and their families in Tennessee who are challenging a state ban on gender-affirming care.
“Since Title IX cases often look to cases decided under Title VII, these cases could have an impact on the way this case may be decided,” he said. Legal experts say that the issue could eventually end up back before the Supreme Court, with other cases also making their way through the...
Washington —The Supreme Court is set to convene Wednesday tohear arguments in a landmark caseinvolving access to gender-affirming care like puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors experiencing gender dysphoria.The case concerns the constitutionality of a Tennessee law that bans this medical ...
Transgender athlete JayCee Cooper should be allowed to compete as a womanUSA Powerlifting events because she's protected against discrimination by the Minnesota Human Rights Act, her attorneys urged the state Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court will dive headfirst into the politically fraught issue of transgender rights on Wednesday when it hears a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the highest-profile case of the fall. Attorneys for the Biden administration ...
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in just its second major transgender rights case, a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors.
Tennessee’s law bans puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender minors, but not “across the board,” lawyers for the families wrote in their Supreme Court brief. The lead lawyer, Chase Strangio of the American Civil Liberties Union, is the first openly transgender person to argue...
The justices, acting in a case from Eau Claire, left in place an appellate ruling dismissing the parents' lawsuit. Three justices, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, would have heard the case. That's one short of what is needed for full review by the Supreme Court. ...