The Department of Justice’s Office for Civil Rights dismissed Monday a Biden administration-era lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-transition procedures for minors, a ban that was upheld last month by the Supreme Court.

The Biden administration had joined the lawsuit filed by three transgender teens and their parents challenging the 2023 Tennessee law that bans puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors. But in a 6-3 decision on June 18, the Supreme Court upheld the law, rejecting the arguments that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and that it should be scrutinized using a more stringent standard than the one used by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

“Last month, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee state law protecting vulnerable children from genital mutilation and other so-called ‘gender-affirming care,'” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a news release. “That was the right decision, and this Department of Justice will no longer be in the business of attacking laws like Tennessee’s that protect children.”

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