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The Guardian - US
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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

Revealed: trans rights case at US supreme court features doctors previously discredited by judges

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If the court upholds Tennessee’s ban, it will be siding with doctors LGBTQ+ advocates and trans healthcare experts say have repeatedly peddled misinformation. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images

The doctors have been dismissed by judges across the US as “conspiratorial”, “deeply biased”, “far off” and deserving “very little weight”.

But their testimonies were nonetheless submitted by the state of Tennessee in defense of an anti-trans law the US supreme court will consider in December, in one of the most important cases of the court’s session and among the most consequential LGBTQ+ rights cases in its history.

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