Supreme Court case on trans youth could impact Texas

Gay marriage supporters hold a pride flag in front of the Supreme Court before a hearing about gay marriage in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2015.We’re testing using AI-powered tools to provide an audio version of this story. While this audio recording is machine-generated, the story was written by human journalists.over a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors, wading into the issue of trans health care for the first time.

​​“The Texas Constitution provides stronger rights for parents, stronger rights in the guarantees of equality ... and much stronger rights with respect to the individual rights of autonomy,” Lambda Legal senior counsel Paul Castillo. “Those decisions that rest with parents are at their apex when they are made in consultation with physicians who recommend this medically necessary care.”

While the state has the right to regulate medicine, the law goes too far in infringing on a parents’ constitutional right to direct the care of their children, Kennon Wooten, a partner with Scott, Douglass & McConnico who argued on behalf of the families, said at the hearing. “It seems to be what the court is really asked to do is resolve what is ultimately a moral and philosophical question as opposed to a scientific question about the nature of men and women,” JusticeWhile Texas’ case is proceeding in state courts, federal judges have issued scattershot rulings on similar laws across conservative states.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals preliminarily sided with Tennessee and allowed that law to go into effect in July. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed an Idaho law to go into effect banning gender-affirming care for minors. Since that ruling was in response to an emergency application, it did not include the justices’ full thoughts on the merits of these cases, but the decision was sharply split along ideological lines, foreshadowing how future cases might unfold.

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