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Fallout from Dobbs seen as equal protection dominos appear to fall in anti-trans Supreme Court case

The lawyer defending Tennessee’s anti-trans law, and conservatives on the Supreme Court engaged in a “blizzard of wordplay” to pretend that the law pertaining to gender-affirming care is not sex-based discrimination, an extension of the reasoning Supreme Court conservatives used in deciding the Dobbs case about abortion. Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate Magazine, and Leah Litman, University of Michigan law professor and co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast talk with Alex Wagner about how Donald Trump’s Supreme Court is eroding anti-discrimination protections.