U.S. Department of Justice backs out of Tennessee transgender care case
The U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump Administration is withdrawing its challenge of a Tennessee law – argued before the Supreme Court – that blocks gender affirming care for children.
A deputy solicitor general for the Department of Justice notified the nation's highest court Friday that it no longer believes the state law denies equal protection based on sex or any other characteristic. In addition, the new administration wouldn't have intervened to challenge Tennessee's law or the high court's review of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that reversed a preliminary injunction against the law passed in 2023, according to a letter obtained by the Tennessee Lookout.
Yet the department is not requesting dismissal of the case, instead saying "prompt resolution of the question presented will bear on many cases pending in the lower courts."