With the culture war blazing, not even the Supreme Court could agree on the medical facts of the case.
by Emma Camp
Reason.com
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning minors from accessing certain kinds of controversial gender-transition treatments. The lawsuit over the case hinged on whether the state’s ban on hormones, puberty blockers, and surgical interventions violated the Equal Protection Clause and required a stricter standard of scrutiny than the one a previous appeals court used.
The court made its decision along ideological lines, with three liberal justices dissenting. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the law, Senate Bill 1, “does not exclude any individual from medical treatments on the basis of transgender status but rather removes one set of diagnoses—gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, and gender incongruence—from the range of treatable conditions.”