The Supreme Court is set to hear the first-ever case on the legality of bans targeting transgender procedures for minors.

The issue of transgender rights animated the presidential campaign. Now it has made its way to the Supreme Court, and in more ways than one.

When the Supreme Court hears an appeal Wednesday from transgender youths challenging a Tennessee ban on their medical care, fundamental principles forbidding sex discrimination will be on the line.

WASHINGTON — The conservative Supreme Court is poised to leap into another culture-war battle between red states and blue states, this time involving medical rights of transgender teens and their parents.

The transgender Tennessee teenager behind a historic hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court this week doesn't want to show her face on television but is eager to speak about a case she says has the potential to make thousands of American kids feel "seen" for who they are.

In order to protect access to transgender medical care, providers need to be trained appropriately, bans on care must be overturned, and insurance must cover treatments. Everyone—including transgender people regardless of their age—deserves access to the medical care they need.