WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti regarding whether a Tennessee law that protects children from harmful puberty blockers, hormones, and irreversible mutilating surgeries is constitutional. The Justices focused their questions on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and whether blocking access to these interventions is sex-based discrimination. Several Justices also noted a lack of international medical consensus on gender procedures and displayed skepticism that the Constitution must take a side on unsettled medical issues.