United States v. Skrmetti

United States v. Skrmetti
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 4, 2024
Full case name	United States of America v. Jonathan Thomas Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al.
Docket no.	23-477
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Preliminary injunction granted in part and denied in part, L.W. v. Skrmetti, 679 F. Supp. 3d 668 (M.D. Tenn. 2023) Preliminary injunction stayed, L.W. v. Skrmetti, 73 F.4th 408 (6th Cir. 2023) Reversed and remanded, L.W. v. Skrmetti, 83 F.4th 460 (6th Cir. 2023)
Questions presented
Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1), which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow "a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex" or to treat "purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity," Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-33-103(a)(1), violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh Amy Coney Barrett · Ketanji Brown Jackson

United States v. Skrmetti (Docket No. 23-477) is a pending United States Supreme Court case on whether bans on gender affirming care (including puberty blockers and hormone therapy) for minors under the age of 18 violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.