The Supreme Court will hear a major case related to transgender treatments on minors. I'm

Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Monday, June 24th. forth. This morning the Supreme Court announced that it will hear a case that's related to a ban on gender treatments for minors in Tennessee.

In March of 2023, Tennessee passed a law that bans things like cross-sex hormones and puberty

blockers and other similar treatments on minors. Well, a lawsuit ensued and now the

Supreme Court will hear arguments likely in October to decide if the

Tennessee law is constitutional or not. Here with us to explain more is Heritage

Foundation Senior Legal Fellow.

Sarah partial Perry, Sarah, thanks for being with us.

Thanks for having me.

Sarah, if you would, just explain the legal arguments,

and I'm especially curious to hear, what is the legal argument that's coming from those that oppose

this law in Tennessee that protects minors from things like cross- sex hormones or puberty blockers.

Why do they claim that this law is something that goes against the Constitution and needs to remain in place.

Yeah, so this is it's an interesting case, but it's actually one of three that are currently at the Supreme Court.

This is a challenge brought specifically by the that are currently at the Supreme Court.

This is a challenge brought specifically

by the Department of Justice against the state of Tennessee

for its particular ban.

There is an opportunity for the federal government

to weigh in with its own suit if it determines a matter is of significant public importance, which obviously it did here.

The arguments against these bans are that basically they discriminate in

violation of what's called the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and

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