Tennessee Solicitor General Matthew Rice appears on the floor, arguing in favor of restricting gender-affirming care and allowing Tennessees ban to take effect. He attempts to argue that gender-affirming care for minors has no benefits, something that does not reflect the opinions of leading medical organizations like the Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Psychological Association.Justice Sonia Sotomayor points out that every medical treatment has risks, even Aspirin, and that there is no basis for restricting gender-affirming care on this basis. She points out that ceasing the development of sex-based characteristics is inherently sex-based and thus is discriminatory. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson echoes this argument, immediately pushing back against Rices claims that this is not sex-based and not discriminatory by pointing out that aiming to restrict breast growth, for instance, is sex-based.The pushback continues after Rice makes the questionable claim that boys with gynecomastia a condition that causes males to grow enlarged breast tissue taking puberty blockers lack a medical purpose for doing so, leading to confusion from the Court in interpreting his argument. 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.