During Pride Month, the Supreme Court delivered a major setback for transgender youth, upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors in a 6–3 ruling led by Chief Justice Roberts en.wikipedia.org+11sfchronicle.com+11thepinknews.com+11. The Court said the state’s law did not violate equal protection, a decision that could embolden similar restrictions in as many as 26 other states apnews.com.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration cut funding to The Trevor Project—an LGBT youth suicide prevention hotline criticized for promoting what it called “radical gender ideology” reuters.com. The nonprofit warned this could force the service to shut down, even as the DOJ maintained broader suicide support programs .
A federal judge, however, blocked the administration’s passport policy, preventing removal of gender-identity markers—calling the policy discriminatory under the Fifth Amendment washingtonpost.com+3reuters.com+3en.wikipedia.org+3.
These developments mark a fierce showdown over transgender rights at the Supreme Court and in federal policy—raising alarms among advocates as legal battles heat up nationwide.
