The Biden Administration has a new and unhinged constitutional theory: the 14th Amendment protects the right of a child to take puberty blockers. Bans on hormone treatments for children with gender dysphoria, such as the prescription of testosterone to a transgender 12 year-old, violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.

That’s the Administration’s position in LW v. Skrmetti, a lawsuit filed in a Nashville, Tennessee federal court by the families of three transgender children – a fifteen year-old transgender daughter (who thought he was transgender at age 12), a fifteen year-old transgender son, and a twelve year-old transgender son. They’re challenging a new Tennessee law that “establishes prohibitions related to the performance on minors of certain medical procedures related to gender identity, creates private causes of action for violations, and establishes additional penalties for violations.”

[Some of this is behind TF’s paywall, but there’s enough here to get a grasp of the argument. It’s insane, and by the way, it would then also contradict the Left’s big push to outlaw “conversion therapy” for LGB kids — a psychological approach rather than an irreversible pharmaceutical and/or surgical therapy. It’s too much to expect consistency from “all the feelz” lefties, but come on, man. — Ed]