President-elect Trump vowed to limit access to gender-affirming care, especially for children. But judges he appointed may have laid the groundwork to save it. The big picture: The first major post-election referendum on trans health care is happening Wednesday at the Supreme Court — and the issue has transcended the court's usual ideological divisions before.

The Supreme Court case centers on Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which trans patients call lifesaving and the state made illegal.

The court this week will consider whether Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional

At issue is a Tennessee law that bans access to hormones, puberty blockers, and other treatments for trans kids in the state.

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Wednesday over Tennessee’s law banning transition-related medical care for minors.

The Supreme Court will dive headfirst into the politically fraught issue of transgender rights when it hears a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the highest-profile case of the fall.

It is not lost on me that I will be standing there at the lectern at the Supreme Court in part because I was able to have access to the medical care that is the very subject of the case that we’re litigating,

The court will consider whether states can block doctors from prescribing gender treatments to patients under the age of 18, in its biggest case this term.