Read the Supreme Court’s Decision on Transgender Care for Minors

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UNITED STATES v. SKRMETTI

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting

espouse support for transgender individuals. 13
Transgender persons, moreover, have a defining charac- teristic (incongruence between sex and gender identity) that plainly “bears no relation to [the individual’s] ability to perform or contribute to society.”” Cleburne, 473 U. S., at 441. As a group, the class is no more “large, diverse, and amorphous,”” ante, at 4 (opinion of BARRETT, J.); ante, at 14 (ALITO, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment), than most races or ethnic groups, many of which similarly include individuals with “a huge variety”” of identities and experiences, ante, at 5…