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Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law banning sex-change surgeries, puberty blockers for kids

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The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Tennessee law banning body-mutilating surgeries and hormone drugs for trans-identified minors, affirming a lower court ruling.

In a decision released Wednesday morning in the case of United States v. Skrmetti, the high court ruled 6-3 that Tennessee’s law banning the controversial procedures, also known as Senate Bill 1, does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the majority opinion, joined by justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Justice Samuel Alito concurred with the judgment.

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