Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced the opening of a new transgender care clinic in 2018. Years later, conservatives called for an investigation.

Three families with transgender children and Memphis Dr. Susan Lacy sued the state, then the federal government intervened on behalf of the plaintiffs who are challenging Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy to allow minors to make a sex transition.

On Wednesday morning, a Nashville teenager and her parents filed into the U.S. Supreme Court along with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and ranking Republican lawmakers. They filled its wooden benches as the nation's top justices heard arguments in a case that could have wide-reaching impacts across the country.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote a major transgender rights ruling four years ago, was silent throughout the argument.

Tennessee’s attorney general is set to defend the state’s gender affirming care ban for minors in the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday against challengers who say the 2023 law endangers children. While attorneys for the plaintiffs claim the law violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause,

The Supreme Court's conservative majority Wednesday appeared willing to uphold a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors, rejecting a Biden administration challenge to that law.

The Supreme Court weighed whether Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors experiencing gender dysphoria violates the Constitution.