Publications

Since 2021, 25 states have enacted laws or policies limiting access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Challenges to these laws have been brought in 17 states, with conflicting results. On June 24, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court granted cert in a case involving Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The Supreme Court will rule on whether this law violates equal protection. However, there remains an important additional argument against state prohibitions: that parents have a fundamental right to direct their children’s medical care, which includes the right to seek out certain medical treatments for their children. In this first issue of CAI’s Student Issue Brief, Grady Jensen (’24) makes this argument and offers additional strategies for supporting and protecting the health, well-being, and rights of transgender youth.