BREAKING: Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Arguments On Ban Of Transgender Surgeries For Minors

On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to take up an appeal by Biden's Department of Justice challenging a Tennessee law that restricted the use of puberty blockers and sex change surgeries for minors. The case, United States v. Skrmetti, will have its oral arguments in the fall, and the resulting decision will have monumental consequences as dozens of Republican states pursue legislation to protect minors from transgenderism.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Tennessee's law last year. However, the Biden administration appealed the ruling and has insisted that it is a violation of the rights of "transgender adolescents" to receive medical care. "[T]his Court's intervention is urgently needed because Tennessee's law is part of a wave of similar bans preventing transgender adolescents from obtaining medical care that they, their parents, and their doctors have all concluded is necessary," the DOJ wrote in its petition to the Supreme Court. "Although such care has been provided to adolescents for decades, in the last three years, eighteen other States have adopted categorical bans like Tennessee's."

The state of Tennessee's Supreme Court brief argued that the surgeries and puberty blockers "carry serious and potentially irreversible side effects, including infertility, diminished bone density, sexual dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, and cancer."

This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly.

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