Tennessee front and center as US Supreme Court justices clash over transgender health care

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday morning, a Nashville teenager and her parents filed into the U.S. Supreme Court along with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and ranking Republican lawmakers.

They filled its wooden benches as the nation's top justices heard arguments in a case that could have wide-reaching impacts across the country. Not just for the teen and her family, but for transgender youth across the U.S.

The teenager, L, and her parents Samantha and Brian Williams sued Tennessee last year over the ban. Under the law, L can no longer receive prescriptions like puberty blockers or hormone therapy to treat her gender dysphoria. Her classmates, however, can receive the same prescriptions, as long as they're not transgender.
That was a central theme in more than two hours of arguments before the high court.

Though more than two dozen states have similar bans on the books, the Tennessee case is the first to rise to the high court and a ruling, expected in June, could set legal precedent for similar bans across the country.

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Tennessee front and center as US Supreme Court justices clash over transgender health care

A Nashville teen and her family traveled to Washington along with Gov. Bill Lee and leading Republicans.

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Arizona Couple Began ‘Transitioning’ Their Child as 1-Year-Old Boy


After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in U.S. v Skrmetti, the case that will determine whether states may ban transgender medical procedures for kids, one mother told The Daily Signal that her child began to transition as a baby.

“She knew since birth,” Michelle Callahan-DuMont said of her 10-year-old, a biological male who says he identifies as a transgender female and goes by the name “Violet.”

The family traveled from Arizona to Washington, D.C., to join the American Civil Liberty Union’s “Free to Be Ourselves” rally Wednesday outside the Supreme Court.

Arizona Couple Began Transitioning Their Child as 1-Year-Old Boy

Following oral arguments in US v Skrmetti, a mother told The Daily Signal her child started transitioning as a baby.

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California AG reaffirms state’s commitment to sex reassignment procedures on minors
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that his office will protect “the health and rights of transgender individuals to access medically necessary care.”

Bonta made this statement after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday about Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1. This bill prevents minors from receiving hormone and puberty blockers as well as getting surgery to identify as “a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex.”

In California, at least 2,024 minors received sex reassignment procedures between 2019 and 2023, The Center Square previously reported. This was the most in the country for a state. Families that underwent these procedures were billed almost $ 29 million

California AG reaffirms state’s commitment to sex reassignment procedures on minors

Following the oral arguments, several media outlets reported that the Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold Tennessee’s law.

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