Sarah Green

No. I don't think so. This is a story of how we got here. It's a story I've been reporting with my colleague Azeen Ghoreshi, a science and gender reporter, for nearly two years. And it's a story she's been reporting for much longer. And from the beginning, she's been telling me this is not just a story about politics.

about a new kind of treatment for a small group of kids. I was the first to put on blockers, normal blockers. How it was meant to help.

How it was codified into a protocol that spread around the world.

And how, in the time since, the medicine and the politics have become impossibly entangled.

Coming soon from The New York Times, The Protocol.

It's only been about two decades since trans and gender nonconforming kids in the U.S. have been able to get medical treatment to transition. Now, the federal government is looking to end it. And the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the issue in the coming weeks.