Supreme Court heard arguments on Tennessee ban on transgender care. What does the science say?

Last year, Tennessee banned doctors from medically slowing down a teenager’s puberty or giving them hormones or surgery to alter their gender.

Families of transgender teens in the state sued to protect their right to make their own medical decisions, and now the case is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Oral arguments ended Wednesday and the court is expected to decide by the summer.

The Tennessee law says it has a “compelling interest in encouraging minors to appreciate their sex” and in prohibiting the procedures “that might encourage minors to become disdainful of their sex.”

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