Whether Alabama Senate Bill 184 prohibiting medical treatments for transgender minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether Alabama Senate Bill 184, which prohibits certain medical treatments if they are provided to “alter the appearance of or affirm [a] minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor’s sex” assigned at birth, Ala. Code § 26-26-4 (2022), violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (I)