The Supreme Court decision Wednesday to uphold a Tennessee law restricting transgender care for youth intruded on parental rights and bowed to “popular hostility” toward transgender people, two legal advocates said.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a jolting setback to transgender rights.The justices' 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump's Republican administration and state governments to roll back protections for transgender people.

The justices ruled that Tennessee’s law, which prohibited some medical treatments for transgender youths, did not violate equal protection principles.