President Donald Trump's administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that Tennessee's Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors is not unlawful, reversing the position taken by the government under his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump’s administration is switching positions in a major Supreme Court case on transgender rights, backing away from the Biden administration’s opposition to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

The Trump administration told the US Supreme Court that states can constitutionally ban gender-affirming treatments for minors, flipping the federal government’s position in a high-profile case.

The federal government no longer backs transgender minors and their families in Tennessee who are challenging a state ban on gender-affirming care, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court Friday.

The U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump administration is withdrawing its challenge of a Tennessee law – argued before the U.S. Supreme Court – that blocks gender-affirming care for children. A deputy solicitor general for the Department of Justice notified the nation’s highest court Friday that it no longer believes the state law denies