"Four years ago, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s first case on transgender rights..."

"... ruling that a federal civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers from employment discrimination. But he was silent on Wednesday, the only member of the court to ask no questions. That made it harder to predict how the court will rule, though there is reason to think that the five other members of the court’s conservative wing were not inclined to strike down the Tennessee law before them or to instruct lower courts to subject it to demanding judicial scrutiny. At the same time, it would be a mistake to read too much into his silence or his 2020 majority opinion, which was tightly bound to the text of the law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Justice Gorsuch is a committed textualist, meaning that he interprets the plain words of statutes without regard to their apparent purpose.... The case now before the justices does not turn on the Civil Rights Act but on the Constitution’s equal protection clause...."

From "Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Inclined to Uphold Tennessee Law on Transgender Care/Assessing the court’s ultimate direction was complicated by the silence of one justice in the conservative majority, Neil M. Gorsuch, the author of a key case on employment discrimination. The court’s decision is expected by June" (NYT).