The Supreme Court Has Ruled, and Idaho’s Trans Teens Will Suffer

This week, the Supreme Court allowed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors to go into effect in Idaho while legal challenges against the law proceed. Their decision is a win for those advancing anti-trans arguments in the sober guise of judicial process. It’s also a disturbing indicator of how much weight the conservative majority on the highest court afford such arguments. Four years ago, only one state had enacted a ban on providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries to affirm the gender of trans people under the age...