On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a major case on the rights of transgender children that could help uphold or dismantle dozens of laws across the country. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, explains how the questioning played out and how the justices are likely to rule.
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a major case on the rights of transgender children that could help uphold or dismantle dozens of laws across the country.
My colleague Adam Liptak listened in and explains how it played out and how the justices are likely to rule.
It's Thursday, December 5th.
Adam, welcome back to the show.
It's good to be here.
Adam, this case that we're going to talk about today has that feeling of bigness that comes when the Supreme Court takes up a defining social issue of our time at the precise moment when that issue is completely front and center.
That's right.
This is the biggest case of the term and would have been regardless.
But it hits the court just as we're coming off a presidential campaign in which trans rights played a central role.
So the Supreme Court confronts an important civil rights issue at just the moment in time when it's at the peak of public scrutiny.
Right.