(18 Jun 2025)
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Nashville, Tennessee–18 June 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucas Cameron-Vaughn, Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee:
"This case was brought on behalf of three transgender teenagers and their families, as well as a doctor in Tennessee who provides gender-affirming health care. And one of the claims that we made was that the Tennessee law violates the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution. And this decision today was the Supreme Court saying this specific law, and we believe it’s wrong, but that the court said that this specific law does not violate the equal protection clause of The United States Constitution because it does not classify based on sex. But instead classifies based on age and medical use."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucas Cameron-Vaughn, Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee:
"We think it’s quite obvious that the law does classify based on sex and that the court in this case had to do a lot of backflips, uh, to get around the logic that they use that the case, uh that the law, um, doesn’t classify based on sex."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucas Cameron-Vaughn, Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee:
"This decision does not mean that gender-affirming care for young people is banned in all states. This case is very narrow and specific to Tennessee and Tennessee’s law. And the court left open many options and avenues that other laws that have been challenged could continue on their paths."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucas Cameron-Vaughn, Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee:
"I do think it’s important for people to realize that this does create a new kind of era where the court is saying that legislatures can pass laws that allow certain treatments for some people and deny it for a disfavored minority."
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STORYLINE:
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a jolting setback to transgender rights.
The justices’ 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump’s Republican administration and state governments to roll back protections for transgender people. Another 26 states have laws similar to Tennessee’s.
Lucas Cameron-Vaughn, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, explained the decision and offered comments.
He was the lead counsel for the ACLU of Tennessee on the case.
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