While it was once rare for an administration to change its position in cases before the high court, Trump did so in his first term and has signaled he will do it again.

The Justice Department's new position was expected because President Trump had made opposition to transgender rights a central campaign theme.

An administration lawyer said a Tennessee law barring some medical treatments for transgender youths is constitutional and urged the justices to say so.

The U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump administration is withdrawing its challenge of a Tennessee law – argued before the U.S. Supreme Court – that blocks gender-affirming care for children. A deputy solicitor general for the Department of Justice notified the nation’s highest court Friday that it no longer believes the state law denies