WilmerHale submitted an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti on behalf of a coalition of foreign nonprofit organizations that advocate for the rights of transgender people in their home countries.
United States v. Skrmetti addresses whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1, one of a series of state laws that prohibit gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The amicus brief, co-written by Andrew Rhys Davies, Charles Bridge, Eric Hawkins, Emily Brody-Bizar, and Anna Mizzi, aims to ensure that the Supreme Court has the benefit of accurate information about the availability of gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth in the amici organizations’ home countries and to counter misleading assertions about how other developed countries are addressing that issue. The brief demonstrates that other developed countries in Europe, North America and Australasia have not enacted blanket bans on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth, and instead entrust healthcare decisions primarily to patients and their doctors, parents and guardians.