This Amy Coney Barrett question may offer trans activists a silver lining

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This Amy Coney Barrett question may offer trans activists a silver lining
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Press Relations Manager for Advocates for Trans Equality Ash Orr joins Chris Jansing to discuss the issues impacting the trans community and the impact of today's Supreme Court arguments.

It’s always dangerous business to read too much into Supreme Court justices’ questions at oral arguments, but in United States v. Skrmetti, the case of a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors, a majority of the court didn’t appear willing to agree that the ban violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett picked up on Prelogar’s remark and said, “Even if we decided that this wasn’t a sex-based classification that triggered intermediate scrutiny, that would not prevent parents from still asserting the substantive due process , right?” In 1923, the Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska law that prevented teachers in public or private schools from teaching “any modern language, other than English.

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