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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Thursday, December 5th, 2024.

This is the excerpt.

Today we break down yesterday's Supreme Court arguments over transgender care, plus

some new developments as a new administration takes shape, and the latest from the aftermath

of a brazen killing in New York. The Supreme Court yesterday debated whether states can prevent transgender adolescents from

using puberty blockers and hormone therapy.

And acted in 2023, a law in Tennessee bans doctors from giving such care to a minor

seeking treatment for gender dysphoria.

It's similar to bans approved in more than 20 other states.

I caught up with USA Today's Supreme Court correspondent, Maureen Gropi, for a look at what we

learned during the high court's oral arguments yesterday. Maureen, thanks for making some time today.

Thanks for having me on. What arguments did we hear from attorneys for the Justice Department

and the American Civil Liberties Union who are representing the families challenging Tennessee's ban?

They said that Tennessee's law does require greater scrutiny because it does discriminate.

And their main argument for that is the example of a teenager whose sex assigned at birth is male may be given testosterone to treat delayed puberty, but a teenager

assigned female at birth who wants testosterone to treat gender dysphoria may not have it.

Tennessee's lawyer said that the state is restricting treatments based on what they're being used

for and based on the patient's age, not because of their sex or transgender status.

So they say it's not discrimination.

And they say that they can do that because there's a difference in what these treatments do

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