Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson is hopeful the Supreme Court will uphold the ban he helped write on transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for minors.

Tennessee’s attorney general is set to defend the state’s gender affirming care ban for minors in the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday against challengers who say the 2023 law endangers children. While attorneys for the plaintiffs claim the law violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause,

The Supreme Court will consider if states can keep transgender adolescents from puberty blockers and hormone therapy, a major culture war flashpoint.