Justice Samuel Alito asked ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio whether gender identity is immutable, citing detransitioners and gender fluidity as reasons to suggest it is not. Strangio points out that there is strong evidence that the underlying basis of gender is strongly immutable and that in spite of individuals conceptions of their gender identities changing, what remains underneath is not something that can be willingly changed. The only thing that needs to remain immutable, he says, is that their gender is different from how their birth sex was assigned.Alito then compares trans people to those with schizophrenia, arguing how there can be different treatments. Strangio points out that these are fundamentally different issues and that regardless of any divergence from a typical understanding of how trans people exist, ones status as a trans person is immutable and does not shift in a way that can easily be compared to mental illnesses.This is just one update in a bigger story. Dont miss LIVE UPDATES: Supreme Court hears arguments in challenge to gender-affirming care ban on LGBTQ Nation for more context and updates.