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Supreme Court schedules transgender rights case for December

By Amy Howe
on Oct 18, 2024 at 12:05 pm

SCOTUS NEWS
Supreme Court schedules transgender rights case for December
By Amy Howe
on Oct 18, 2024 at 12:05 pm

The Supreme Court’s December argument session will feature the challenge to Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors, as well as a case by survivors of the Hungarian Holocaust seeking compensation for the seizure of the property by the Hungarian government and a dispute over the Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to bar flavored e-cigarettes that are likely to appeal to young people.

The court on Friday released the calendar for the December argument session, which will feature eight hours of arguments over six days.

The justices will hear oral arguments on Dec. 4 in one of the highest-profile cases of the term so far, United States v. Skrmetti. The case is a challenge to a law that Tennessee enacted in 2023 to ban gender-affirming care for transgender patients under the age of 18.

Three transgender teenagers and their parents went to federal court to challenge the law; the Biden administration joined the case under a law that allows the government to intervene in private cases alleging violations of the constitutional right to equal protection under the law. A federal judge agreed with them that the law’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teens violates the Constitution because the law allows similar treatments for young people wishing to conform to the sex they were assigned at birth. But a federal appeals court reversed that decision, prompting the Biden administration to come to the Supreme Court, which agreed last summer to weigh in.

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Recommended Citation: Amy Howe, Supreme Court schedules transgender rights case for December, SCOTUSblog (Oct. 18, 2024, 12:05 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/10/supreme-court-schedules-transgender-rights-case-for-december/