The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider Tennessee's ban on child sex-reassignment surgery.

of caseUnited States Vs. ScrummettiTennessee Law “Minor[s] Laws that prevent minors from identifying or living with an identity that does not match their gender, such as through cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, or surgery, violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. The Department of Justice argued that laws like Tennessee's “cause serious anxiety and particularly severe harm to transgender youth and their families across the country.”

“[T]”The Supreme Court's intervention is urgently needed because Tennessee's law is part of a wave of similar bans that prevent transgender young people from receiving the medical care that they, their parents, and their doctors have all concluded they need,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) argued in the report. Plea “Although such care has been provided to juveniles for decades, in the past three years 18 states have adopted Tennessee-like blanket bans,” the Supreme Court filing said. (Related: Private footage reveals major medical organizations' efforts to “normalize” gender ideology)

“There is no question that these hormone therapies and surgical procedures have serious and potentially irreversible side effects, including infertility, reduced bone density, sexual dysfunction, cardiovascular disease and cancer,” Tennessee wrote in its Supreme Court filing.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had previously upheld the ban, saying transgender people are not a “politically powerless” or “immutable” group.

“Unlike existing suspect classes, transgender identity is not 'clearly identifiable at the moment of birth,'” the justices wrote. “As the stories of 'transgender people' show, and as plaintiffs do not contend, it is not necessarily immutable.”

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