Transgender-Rights Rulings Warrant New Look, Supreme Court Says

The US Supreme Court ordered reconsideration of rulings backing transgender rights in clashes over health care and birth certificates, while holding off saying whether the justices will take up a polarizing fight over sports participation in their next term.

The actions Monday came in a lengthy list of orders as the court disposed of dozens of appeals in the wind-down to its nine-month term. The reconsideration orders follow a June 18 ruling that let Tennessee and other states ban transgender minors from getting puberty blockers, hormone treatments and surgery.

The justices told a federal appeals court to revisit its ruling ...