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A new term of the Supreme Court begins this week, and threats to LGBTQ people are already on the calendar. Several cases seem likely to build on several consecutive terms in which the court deployed a combination of procedural and substantive strategies to severely undermine the rights of sexual and gender minorities. In just a few years, the court allowed hurtful discrimination and infliction of harm on vulnerable LGBTQ individuals, and particularly children and youth, in a series of cases, including 303 Creative v. Elenis, U.S. v. Skrmetti, Mahmoud v. Taylor, Chiles v. Salazar, West Virginia v. B.P.J., and Mirabelli v. Bonta. Each of these conservative victories now supplies ammunition to the new lawsuits already scheduled for argument in the coming months and to those still pending.

Two cases that try to legitimize the use of public money and public institutions to promote this anti-LGBTQ drive are already scheduled for argument. On Nov. 3, the court will hear St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, brought by the Becket Fund, a conservative religious-rights advocacy group. The religious preschools petitioning the court in this case want access to Colorado’s public preschool funding, but insist they should be allowed to use the money while excluding LGBTQ families. Such discrimination is currently forbidden under Colorado’s antidiscrimination laws and........

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