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Supreme Court’s Skrmetti Decision Redefines Legal Landscape for Gender-Affirming Care for Youth

Woods Rogers on 6/19/2025

On Wednesday, June 18, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, directly addressing the constitutionality of state laws banning gender-affirming care for...more

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Transgender Care Ban

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/19/2025

In a widely awaited for decision, the Supreme Court in a 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Roberts held that a Tennessee law which prohibits certain medical treatments (puberty blockers and hormones) for transgender minors,...more

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Law Prohibiting Gender-Affirming Care for Children

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/19/2025

On June 18, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors does not classify on the basis of sex in ways that would require heightened scrutiny under the Equal...more

The Supreme Court Update - June 18, 2025

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/19/2025

The Supreme Court of the United States issued six decisions today: United States v. Skrmetti, No. 23-477: This case addresses a constitutional challenge to Tennessee’s Prohibition on Medical Procedures Performed on Minors...more

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/19/2025

On June 18, 2025, in the case of United States v. Skrmetti, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care—concluding that the law does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth...more

Health Care Executive Orders And Legal Actions: Part One

McGuireWoods Consulting on 3/5/2025

This is part one of a series of executive orders related to health care. Transgender Care - Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation...more

The Uncertain Future of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors, Part 1: United States v. Skrmetti

ArentFox Schiff on 2/20/2025

Gender-affirming care (GAC) is a model of care encompassing medical, surgical, mental health, and non-medical services to support transgender and nonbinary individuals in affirming their gender identity. Advocates argue that...more

U.S. Supreme Court to Review Tennessee State Ban on Gender-Affirming Care

Hall Benefits Law on 9/30/2024

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that upheld a Tennessee state law banning gender-affirming care for minors and overturned a lower court injunction that...more

In the Case of Public School Bathrooms: Separate Is Equal

Rumberger | Kirk on 1/13/2023

Eleventh Circuit Says School’s Policy of Assigning Bathrooms Based on Biological Sex Does Not Violate U.S. Constitution - The issue on appeal for the Eleventh Circuit to decide was whether separating the use of male and...more

Eleventh Circuit Extends Bostock to Protect Transgender Students under Title IX

TNG Consulting on 1/7/2021

Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cty., 968 F.3d 1286 (11th Cir. 2020). Factual Summary: Drew Adams is a transgender male who was prohibited from using the boys’ restroom at his public high school. In the eighth grade,...more

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Argument on LGBTQ Rights

Stoel Rives - World of Employment on 10/10/2019

This week the United States Supreme Court commenced its 2019-2020 term, during which it will examine significant questions related to the scope of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yesterday, on October 8th, the...more

Exploring the Origins of Pride Month and Taking Stock of LGBTQ+ Rights

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 6/27/2019

Across the country each June, communities come together to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month. This month of events honors the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan while also...more

Supreme Court Not Likely to Rule this Term on Issues Affecting Transgender Students’ Access to Restrooms that Correspond with...

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/24/2018

The Supreme Court recently lost an opportunity to address important issues affecting transgender students. On August 25, 2017, the Kenosha Unified School District filed a petition for certiorari after the Seventh Circuit...more

Breaking: Supreme Court to Weigh in on Transgender Restroom Access in Schools

Ruder Ware on 10/31/2016

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday accepted a closely watched case over restroom access for transgender students. Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., will examine whether the Title IX education code’s prohibition on “sex”...more

Bills and Cases and Executive Orders, Oh my! Following the Road to LGBT Equal Protection

Baker Donelson on 8/20/2014

This summer has been hot in temperature, but also in topics especially when it comes to balancing equal protection with sincerely held religious beliefs. A recent bill, Supreme Court decision, and Executive Order each show...more

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