Law Matters - Episode 19

LAW MATTERS EPISODE 19: Watch America’s Future LAW MATTERS with attorneys Alicia Kutzer and Bill Olson to stay informed about important legal issues, how our justice system functions, and how court decisions impact our daily lives and society.

In Episode 19, attorneys Kutzer and Olson address a challenge to a 2023 Tennessee law that prohibits healthcare providers from furnishing gender-changing items and services such as puberty blockers, hormone-altering drugs, and surgeries to minors. The case is now before the Supreme Court.

Listen and learn about the travel of the case and the legal issues the Court will consider regarding whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from enacting laws protecting children from sex-transition medical interventions with risks of lifelong harm. The ruling could have a national impact since roughly half of the states have passed laws regulating the provision of gender-changing surgeries and drugs to minors. The case is U.S. v Jonathan Skrmetti, Tennessee’s Attorney General.