Conservative Christian political organizations, including the Heritage Foundation and Family Research Council are celebrating the Supreme Court’s June 18 decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti . The case upheld a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming healthcare—including hormone treatments and surgical interventions—for transgender minors.

Various conservative Christian leaders have similarly claimed that the high Court’s ruling affirms the scientific and divine reality of biological sex. The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, for example, issued a press release describing Tennessee’s law as “built upon the framework of biblical convictions” defending “the historical and biological definition of sex.” In an amicus brief filed for this case last spring, t

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