In a decision that could inflame parts of Hollywood amid a growing number of states barring medical treatment for transgender youths, a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday a ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors.
The justices, in a 6-3 ruling, found that the 2023 law isn’t discriminatory. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. nodded to the “fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field” but said questions about the law should be “left to the people, their elected representatives and the democratic process.”
In a fierce dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the law “plainly discriminates on the basis of sex” while underscoring inevitable harm to transgender youth who’re being abandoned by the court to “political whims.”
The case has seen participation from Hollywood in a political climate that…
