Supreme Court hears challenge to law banning gender-affirming care for trans kids [View all]
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Supreme Court hears challenge to law banning gender-affirming care for trans kids
DECEMBER 4, 2024 5:00 AM ET
HEARD ON MORNING EDITION
Nina Totenberg
Front and center at the Supreme Court on Wednesday is the battle over the rights of transgender children. At issue is a state law in Tennessee that blocks minors from accessing gender-affirming care in the state.
In the last three years, more than two dozen states have enacted laws that ban puberty blockers, hormones and other treatments for minors seeking gender-affirming care. The issue has become highly politicized, as anyone who watched election ads this fall can attest.
Challenging Tennessee's law in the Supreme Court are three trans kids and their parents.
LW, as she is known in legal documents, is one of them.
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-5179003/supreme-court-gender-affirming-care-trans-kids
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