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Tennessee, like other states, passed a law to bar puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital mutilation surgery for minors.
Individuals and organizations who advocate for the possibly permanent sterilization of minors — including parents of such minors — filed a lawsuit against these states. They claimed the ban violated children’s constitutional rights to Due Process and Equal Protection.
The case eventually reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which allowed the law to go into effect. Opponents appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court agreed to hear arguments.
Liberty Counsel said that presidents usually maintain the legal positions of previous administrations, but not President Trump. In his executive order against these procedures, he called them barbaric.
How did we get here? The Biden administration cited the Supreme Court case, Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), to support its mandates that medical providers damage children with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilation surgery. The three Trump-appointed justices voted with leftist justices to declare that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation and “gender identity.”
