Supreme Court Allows Idaho’s Gender-Affirming Care Ban — For Now

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Idaho to enforce a controversial ban on gender-affirming care to minors as the law is appealed, temporarily reintroducing one of more than a dozen state bans on gender-affirming care, an increasingly hot-button issue for the GOP.

The Supreme Court approved a stay on a federal District Court decision, allowing Idaho to enforce the ban, with the high court’s conservative justices forming the majority opinion and its three liberal justices dissenting.

The Supreme Court’s ruling comes three months after a U.S. District Court upheld a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking state officials from enforcing…