The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti upheld Tennessee's ban on transgender health care for minors, a decision met with dismay by advocates. ACLU attorney Chase Strangio criticized the ruling as fundamentally flawed, noting it failed to recognize the law as a form of sex discrimination. The conservative justices withheld judgment on broader issues of trans discrimination, leaving many significant questions unanswered. Despite these setbacks, Strangio emphasizes the ongoing need for legal challenges to secure rights for trans individuals.
We think that the Court just got it absolutely wrong, and as a material matter, it's devastating for the people who are most affected.
Roberts seems to have unified all six conservative justices by declining to weigh in on the thorniest big-picture questions of whether discrimination against trans people in general is unconstitutional sex discrimination.
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