In 2023, Kentucky’s legislature passed SB 150, overriding the governor’s veto. The law bans all transgender medical care for minors and puts stiff penalties on medical professionals that provide such care. NCLR, along with the ACLU of Kentucky and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, have brought a case on behalf of trans youth and their parents to block the ban from going into effect. 

We won a preliminary injunction from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky in June of 2023, preventing the law from going into effect, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed that decision and allowed the law to go into effect.  

We filed a cert. petition directly with the Supreme Court to reinstate the preliminary injunction, and they decided to take up the case in consolidation with a similar case in Tennessee; renamed U.S. v. Skrmetti. On December 4, 2024, the U.S. Solicitor General and ACLU attorney Chase Strangio argued for our side before the Supreme Court. We now await the Court’s decision which will decide whether these medical bans are constitutional.