The Supreme Court on Thursday will confront the next frontiers of the legal battles surrounding transgender rights now that the justices have signed off on Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

After the justices announce opinions from the bench, they’ll meet behind closed doors to discuss how to proceed with more than a half-dozen petitions concerning states’ transgender athlete bans, bathroom restrictions and prohibitions on gender-affirming surgeries in Medicaid plans.

Transgender rights advocates are holding out hope that the conservative majority’s ruling last week upholding the Tennessee law is limited and they can still eke out victories as the cases press ahead.

“As frustrating an answer as it is, I don’t actually think this tells us much at all of how those other contexts will proceed before this court,” said Karen Loewy, senior counsel and director of Lambda Legal’s constitutional law practice. “In as much as I think we can try to read tea leaves and find doctrinal through-lines, this is one of those instances where the court made clear that they were just doing something different and specific here.”

The Supreme Court issued its 6-3 ruling along........

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