There was a clarifying moment late in Wednesday’s two-and-a-half-hour-long oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti, a history-making challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

In the first major transgender rights case to hit the Supreme Court, the justices are considering whether states can ban healthcare for trans minors.

The ruling could set a precedent for several challenges to state laws regarding sports participation, bathroom use and health care for adults.

In the first case over medical treatments for trans youth to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservative majority on Wednesday questioned the federal government’s argument that “overwhelming evidence” supports procedures like puberty blockers and hormone therapy.

In the biggest case of the term, the justices considered a challenge to Tennessee’s law banning certain gender transition medical treatments for minors.

The Supreme Court will consider if states can keep transgender adolescents from puberty blockers and hormone therapy, a major culture war flashpoint.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority Wednesday appeared willing to uphold a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors, rejecting a Biden administration challenge to that law.

The Supreme Court's conservatives said Wednesday they are inclined to uphold state laws in half the nation that prohibit the use of hormone treatments for transgender teens. Led by Chief Justice John G.