Supreme Court to decide whether states can ban transgender women & girls from sports
The decision is expected by next summer.
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July 3, 2025
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The decision is expected by next summer.
The Republican-led state is the first in the nation to take protections related to gender identity out of its civil rights code.
The president continues to use trans people as a scapegoat.
Nobody has heard from the young makeup artist since the Trump administration deported him in March.
While the justices upheld the coverage requirement for insurance companies to pay for preventive care at no cost to the patient, they also gave the HHS secretary more power.
Former Supreme Court clerk and co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast, Leah Litman, told The Advocate that bans on trans youth’s medical care are only the beginning after the Skrmetti ruling.
The Supreme Court dealt trans kids and their families a "devastating blow” by upholding states’ rights to ban gender-affirming care, advocates say.
Currently, there is no law protecting jurors from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Sen. Alex Padilla was just trying to ask a question.
The justices are expected to issue rulings on the most controversial cases of the term imminently.
“This is just another attempt by extremist Republican politicians to further their anti-transgender agenda,” U.S. Rep. Mark Takano said.
“We will not go back,” Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings told The Advocate.
Kansas' gender-affirming care ban "impermissibly infringes" on parents' "fundamental right to the care, custody, and control of their children," a new lawsuit asserts.
In 2023, the state legislature banned care for transgender youth “pending research.” The research is in — and inconvenient for Republicans.
“The Court finds that the public benefits from living in a country where rules are followed and where promises are kept,” Judge Brian E. Murphy wrote.
“To me, that sounds incredibly vague,” Judge Jon Tiger told Trump administration lawyers.
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
Alina Habba, the former personal attorney for Donald Trump, brought federal criminal charges against New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver.
Deporting people this way “surely does not pass muster,” the justices wrote.
The ban violates the rights to privacy and free speech guaranteed by the Montana Constitution, and it amounts to discrimination based on viewpoint, Judge Jason Marks wrote.
These trans folks explain why they're ready to serve like anyone else.