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Washington Post

The ACLU bet big on a trans rights case. Its loss was predictable.

It was clear from oral arguments that the ACLU was going to lose U.S. v. Skrmetti, a challenge to Tennessee's ban on gender transition treatments for minors. But really, it was clear long before that. The plaintiffs were facing six conservative justices who needed to be convinced that such treatments are so compelling — as the litany goes, 'lifesaving, evidence-based and medically necessary' — that states could have no good reason to ban them.