“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.”

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.

Advocates said the high court's decision to uphold state bans on gender-affirming care is a major blow to transgender rights.