The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears prepared to uphold Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors, after more than two hours of wide-ranging arguments and questions on whether trans people can be constitutionally protected from discrimination.
Justice Samuel Alito grilled ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, the first-ever openly trans attorney to present at the high court, to repeatedly cast doubt on whether being transgender is “immutable” and thus protected by anti-discrimination laws.
