Tennessee attorney general Jonathan Skrmetti hailed the Sixth Circuit’s decision to reinstate the state’s ban on gender-transition treatments for minors, explaining to National Review that Tennessee’s law was a proper exercise of the state’s police powers.
The Sixth Circuit was the first federal court to rule in favor of one of these bans and Skrmetti expects it will not be the last to reach this conclusion. According to the attorney general, the decision is “rooted in a careful examination of the historical foundations of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The plaintiffs in this case — three transgender minors, their parents, and a doctor — asserted both equal protection and due-process claims in their attempt to challenge the law.
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