In a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, paving the way for other bans on trans healthcare to remain in effect in 24 other states. The Court’s right-wing justices rejected arguments on behalf of Tennessee trans kids and their parents, that the ban on those treatments discriminated on the basis of sex, because they remain permitted for other medical treatments. In her dissent Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused her conservative colleagues of “contort[ing] logic and precedent” and “abandon[ing] transgender children and their families to political whims”.

Trans activists rallied at a Washington, D.C. church after the ruling. This is Devon Ojeda of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Devon Ojeda: “They can say I’m a woman but I live as a man! I Iove as a man! I go through this world as a man and nothing they ever say will ever change that!”