The Constitution Protects Transgender People. The Supreme Court May Have Other Ideas

If the Supreme Court of the United States were a normal court applying long-established principles and precedents to the issues of the day, United States v. Skrmetti, which asks the justices to decide whether Tennessee’s wholesale ban on gender-affirming health care for youth is unconstitutional, would be an easy case. No, the controversy doesn’t require them to weigh in on whether this care is good or bad policy, to address the science behind it, or even to take sides on a political,…