American supreme The conservative majority of the court on Wednesday confirmed the ban on the state of Tennessee on gender access for minors.

In a 6–3 Decision in United States c. SkmettiThe judges noted that the law of Tennessee is not unconstitutional. The central question of the case was where the prohibition of Tennessee violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, which stipulates that the government cannot discriminate individuals according to its race, its sex, other characteristics. The decision does not affect states where sexist secrecy care for young people remain legal, but establishes the preceding that these states can prohibit this type of treatment.

The trial was brown for the court by three transgender adolescents and their parents, as well as a doctor, the Ministry of Justice of the Biden Administration joining the complainants. They argued that the law of Tennessee discriminated against the basis of gender and gender status by refusing medical care to young transgender people available for other minors. This is the first case that the Supreme Court took care of the question of the care of the sexes for minors.

Gender care includes a belly of medical services intended to help Alig on the body of a person more closely with their gender identity. He can understand hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgeries.

Tennessee promulgated its law in 2023, which prohibits health caregivers from prescribing drugs or providing surgical gender warning procedures to minors whose gender identities are different from their abstain from birth. The law excludes procedures according to which adhered congenital anomalies or physical injuries, as well as medical care acade with sex for minors whose gender identity is in accordance with their designated sex at birth. It means, for example, that a cisgenre boy suffered from gynecomastia, a hormonal condition that causes an enlargement of the bad badast fabric, Couald has received medication or undergoes surgery with distant mammary fabric with their gender identity, but a transgender boost which does not receive the same treatment for dysmorphia between sexes.

Today Decision of the Supreme CourtDelivered by chief judge John Roberts, argues that the law of Tennessee is not discriminatory because it “prohibits health care providers from administering puberty blockers or a minor to treat gender dysphoria, gender identity disorders or gender strait, regardless of minor on the basis of medical treatment”. “On the contrary, it removes a set of diagnostics – dysphoria, gender identity disorder and gender donation – of the range of treatable conditions,” said the decision.

Since 2021, more than two dozen states have adopted laws or policies that severely prohibit or limit gender restoration for people under the age of 18. Many of these states also criminalize health care praorpants to provide or offer this type of care to minors. According to the Non -profit KFF health policy40 percent of young trans aged aged 13 to 17 live in the state that has promulgated a policy against strengthening gender care.

Although several states are faced with legal challenges with their prohibitions, the decision of the Supreme Court of Toray means that these laws will probably remain intact.

The main medical organizations – notably the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Obstractors and Gynecologists, and the World Health Organization – provide access to sex care for transgender and sex scientific evidence, which, according to them, are supported by scientific evidence. A Study from 2022 Studied nearly 12,000 young transgender and non-binary young people aged 13 to 24 and found that those they received from hormone therapy with sex-sample had lower depression, suicide thoughts and attacked suicide that had not received hormone therapy.

“The decision of the Supreme Court today is a devastating blow for young transgender people and families who love them,” said Kelley Robinson, president of the human rights campaign, an organization that promotes civil rights LGBTQ +, in a statement. “Families can now make the heartbreaking choice to leave their condition or divide their family, or assume large financial burdens, in order to ensure that their children can access the necessary medication.”