The Trump administration has switched the federal government’s position by stating Tennessee’s law banning gender transition treatment for minors is lawful, reversing the position taken by the Biden administration.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in December, with many of the justices reportedly leaning toward upholding the 2023 law, known as SB1, which restricts pharmaceutical and surgical interventions for gender transition until a person turns 18. The Biden administration argued the law violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

“The Department has now determined that SB1 does not deny equal protection on account of sex or any other characteristic,” Deputy Solicitor General Curtis Gannon wrote Friday in a letter to the clerk of the high court. “Accordingly, the new Administration would not have intervened to challenge SB1 — let alone sought this Court’s review of the court of appeals’ decision.”

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