Tennessee teens, doctor ask Supreme Court to take up transgender care ban
Transgender youths, their parents and a doctor in Tennessee asked the Supreme Court to block the state's ban on certain transition-related health care for minors.
Three transgender youths, their parents and a doctor in Tennessee asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to block the state’s ban on certain transition-related health care for minors.
If the court agrees to hear the case, it would be the first time it has considered a restriction on puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery for minors.
Tennessee is one of 22 states where such measures have become law.
“I’m fighting this law because I know how important this care is for tens of thousands of transgender youth like me,” one of the plaintiffs, a 15-year old referred to as L.W. in the lawsuit, said in a statement. “It scares me to think about losing the medication that I need and if this law continues, my family may have to leave Tennessee — the place I have lived and loved my entire life.”
L.W., a transgender girl, added that she doesn’t know where her family would go given how many states have passed similar legislation.
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