More than 20 states have moved to restrict gender-affirming care for youth. Now, the high court will weigh in on Tennessee’s law, and a decision could have wider implications.

When Tennessee banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth last year, Sarah began taking days off work to drive hundreds of miles from her home in Nashville to a North Carolina clinic that could treat her transgender son.

When the Supreme Court this week wades into the contentious issue of transgender rights, the justices will hear from an attorney with knowledge that runs deep. Chase Strangio will be the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the nation’s highest court,

The conservative-majority Supreme Court dives into the culture war issue of transgender rights as it weighs whether states can restrict gender transition care for minors.

The Supreme Court will dive headfirst into the politically fraught issue of transgender rights when it hears a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the highest-profile case of the fall.

Transgender rights will reach a legal turning point Wednesday as the US Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of state laws that ban gender-affirming treatments for minors.

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday in a dispute over a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatments for transgender children, in a case that could set the boundaries on gender identity policies for states and Congress.