This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Lydia Polgreen, an opinion columnist for the New York Times.
And I'm Masha Gessen, also an opinion columnist for the New York Times.
So Trump and the GOP will have a governing trifecta in the new year.
And amid the many policies that I think will hurt many Americans is a shift in the way the government
and the courts see equal rights,
particularly those for some of the country's smallest and most vulnerable minorities.
Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether or not Tennessee could ban gender affirming care for minors.
And we won't know for sure until June, but.
But there's already analysis that the court seems to be leaning toward upholding the state's ban.
Masha, you were there in the courtroom.
I wonder what it was like in the room.
I hadn't been to the Supreme Court since 2019, and 2019, I was there for the oral arguments in the Bostock case,
which is the last time the court took up the topic of trans rights.
And that was the amazing decision that Neil Gorsuch, of all people,
wrote that ruled that trans people are covered by Title VII for the purposes of employment discrimination,
which is the biggest judicial victory that trans people have ever had in this country.
So, and I remember, you know,