NewYorkPost: Supreme Court signals intent to uphold Tennessee ban on trans surgeries for minors, defer to states

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices displayed deep skepticism of pleas to quash a Tennessee ban on transgender surgeries for minors, with several moderates on the bench seemingly hinting at an inclination toward deference to states during oral arguments.

Appearing to largely splinter along ideological grounds over Tennessee’s sweeping ban against performing operations on minors to alter their sex in the case United States v. Skrmetti, potential swing members sounded wary of scuttling the law.

“We may think that we can do just as good a job with respect to the evidence here as Tennessee or anybody else, but my understanding is that the Constitution leaves that question to the people’s representatives,” Chief Justice John Roberts contended at one point.