The Supreme Court will hear a gender-affirming healthcare case this fall

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The Supreme Court has announced it is taking up another follow-up case.

Next year, the court could decide whether states can legally ban transgender minors from accessing hormone blockers.

This court decision will have a tremendous impact on countless families living in states with similar gender care restrictions and will set the tone for future debates about transgender rights in America.

“The decisions about the health of our children, the decision about the well-being of our children should be the responsibility of the parents or a doctor,” said Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign.

The nation’s leading LGBTQ organization is joining efforts to protect access to gender-affirming care.

The court says it will now hear a challenge from the Biden administration to a Tennessee law that bans treatments such as hormone blockers for transgender minors.

“Care that every major medical organization supports,” Robinson said.

Currently, 25 states restrict or ban gender-affirming care for teens.

Robinson mentions the prohibited discrimination.

“We must see this for what it is: this is a politically motivated attack designed to divide us,” Robinson said.

Conservative groups argue the bans are legal.

The Heritage Foundation says the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade increases their confidence that justices will agree that this is also a state matter.

“Listen to the states that have spoken, these laws have been constitutionally approved,” said Sarah Parshall Perry of the Heritage Foundation.

Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said the bans are no different than laws that prohibit minors from drinking alcohol.

“And the Supreme Court has recognized for decades that minors lack the capacity, judgment and maturity to make lifelong decisions,” Parshall Perry said.

The Supreme Court will hold oral arguments this fall.