Some advocates in Minnesota are concerned that more families with transgender children will seek refuge after the ruling affirmed Tennessee’s restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors.

Most forthcoming of the party’s potential 2028 contenders was Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, who has a transgender cousin, and who wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Illinois has protections to "meet this very moment.”

The conservative Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to transgender Americans on Wednesday, issuing a sweeping decision that may have implications beyond the medical care that was at center of one of the court’s highest-profile disputes this year.