The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on the Tennessee law that bans permanent gender transition surgery for minors.

The court is set to hear oral arguments in the case on December 4, The Daily Caller reported.

The law went into effect on July 1, 2023 and was signed by Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee on March 22, 2023.

“The bill followed a September 2022 investigation into Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) by The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, who exposed VUMC’s gender transition procedures for children and shocking attitudes towards gender transitions in general. Walsh and The Daily Wire found that the hospital regarded transgender procedures as a ’big money maker’ and pressured employees to ignore their ‘religious beliefs’ on transgender issues or face ‘consequences,’” the report said.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the administration of President Joe Biden and several teenagers joined together to sue the state over the law.

“The people of Tennessee, through their elected representatives, took measured action with Senate Bill 1 to protect kids from irreversible, unproven medical procedures,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in October. “Lawmakers recognized that there is little to no credible evidence to justify the serious risks these procedures present to youth and joined a growing number of European countries in restricting their use on minors with gender-identity issues.”

“The federal government, in its arguments to the Supreme Court, puts its faith in a false and manufactured consensus that ignores the many doctors, States, and countries who have looked at the evidence and determined these treatments are too risky for kids,” he said. “The Constitution does not prevent the States from regulating the practice of medicine where hot-button social issues are concerned. People who disagree with restrictions on irreversible pediatric procedures for gender transition are free to advocate for change through state elections.”

The ACLU originally brought the case on behalf of Samantha Williams and her teenage son who believes he is a girl.

“It was incredibly painful watching my child struggle before we were able to get her the life-saving healthcare she needed. We have a confident, happy daughter now, who is free to be herself and she is thriving,” the mom said.

“I am so afraid of what this law will mean for her,” the woman said.

“We don’t want to leave Tennessee, but this legislation would force us to either routinely leave our state to get our daughter the medical care she desperately needs or to uproot our entire lives and leave Tennessee altogether. No family should have to make this kind of choice,” he said.