“Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a catastrophic failure for our nation’s youth,” Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, an LGBTQ+ rights advocacy group said at the Center on Halsted. “By upholding Tennessee’s discriminatory ban on gender affirming care, the court has allowed dangerous double standards.”

People gather and react outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the day it heard arguments over an appeal by U.S. President Joe Biden's administration of a lower court's decision upholding a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors,