The justices’ 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump’s Republican administration and state governments to roll back protections for transgender people.

A divided US Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law that outlaws certain controversial medical treatments for transgender children in a ruling that buttresses similar measures in two dozen states.

In a huge setback for transgender rights, the Supreme Court said Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors did not violate the 14th Amendment.