Supreme Court Justices Skeptical of Challenge to Ban on Gender Procedures for Minors

The Biden administration has challenged the law under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

People protest as the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case involving bans on gender procedures for minors, in Washington on Dec. 4, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Dec. 4 over Tennessee’s ban on transgender-related procedures for minors, teeing up a potentially game-changing decision for precedent on this issue.

American Civil Liberties Union attorney Chase Strangio and U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the court to remand or send Tennessee’s law back to a lower court for reconsideration. Prelogar said the law represented a form of sex-based discrimination that should be scrutinized more heavily under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.