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I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Thursday, December 5th.

The LPGA, the Ladies Professional Golf Association, said you have to have had gender affirming care before

puberty in order to be allowed to compete. The case that the Supreme Court heard yesterday

was about one of the states that has banned that care for anyone under 18. So for that group of

people, they're required to have it and they're

prohibited from having it. Now we'll take a closer look at the Supreme Court case specifically.

Yesterday, they heard oral arguments in United States v. Germetti, which will determine if Tennessee

can ban transgender care for minors. Yesterday's SB1, Tennessee's SB1,

that's what it's called SB1 in the legislature, ban surgery, puberty blockers, and hormone

treatments for the purpose of gender transition for people under 18, period. No matter how the

conservative majority Supreme Court rules,

the implications could be broad because almost half the states, 24 states, according to NPR,

have similar laws to Tennessee's, all passed in the last three years, by the way. So there's

been a rush to ban gender affirming care for minors as this has

become politicized. More than 110,000 teenagers live in states where restrictions or transgender

care exist. According to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, about 300,000

teens identify as transgender in the United States.

Joining us now to break down yesterday's oral arguments is Kate Shaw,

professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Carrie Law School,

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