The US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold a medical ban affecting trans youth
At oral arguments, the justices divided on ideological lines
IN 2020 Justice Neil Gorsuch delighted progressives and infuriated many on the right when he wrote, for a 6-3 majority, that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender employees. That ruling, Bostock v Clayton County, so alarmed Josh Hawley, Missouri’s junior senator, that he rose on the Senate floor to warn against the “end of the conservative legal movement....as we know it”.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “A restrictive majority”
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