SCOTUS Decides Skrmetti Case Holding that Trans Discrimination is not Sex-Based Discrimination Under Equal Protection

The decision is here: US v. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. ___ (2025).

Held. Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain medical treatments for transgender minors is not subject to heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and satisfies rational basis review. 

Not subject to heightened scrutiny because it does not classify on any bases that warrant heightened review, as is not a sex-based classification.

Guardian, US Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee on Youth Gender-Affirming Care

Slate, John Roberts’ Anti-Trans Opinion Is a Garbled Mess. It’s Easy to See Why.

MSNBC, What the Skrmetti Dissents on Gender-Affirming Care Say About the Supreme Court

See also NYT, How the Transgender Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost