A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week upholding a Tennessee ban on many gender-affirming treatments for minors could further strain Minnesota care providers. Minnesota’s protections for transgender youth remain in place under state law.

Most forthcoming of the party’s potential 2028 contenders was Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, who has a transgender cousin, and who wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Illinois has protections to "meet this very moment.”

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to transgender rights by upholding a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for adolescents, but legal experts said the ruling was narrower than it could have been and left open the door for challenges to the rising number of government restrictions aimed at transgender people.