The new ruling came after the high court upheld a Tennessee ban on transgender procedures for minors.
The Supreme Court on June 30 threw out several lower court rulings, directing judges to take a second look at their decisions in light of a recent ruling that upheld Tennessee’s ban on transgender procedures for minors.
Three of the cases—from West Virginia, North Carolina, and Idaho—concern whether a state may exclude transgender surgeries from coverage under various health insurance plans. A fourth case concerns whether Oklahoma is violating the U.S. Constitution by stating that birth certificates reflect a person’s sex at birth.
The new orders were announced on the court’s order list.
On June 18, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on providing such interventions as cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors experiencing gender dysphoria.
In a 6–3 decision, the nation’s highest court disagreed with the Biden administration’s argument that the law should face higher legal scrutiny than had been applied by an appeals court.
Sam Dorman contributed to this report.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
