Transgender rights advocates' hope in Gorsuch fades after athlete ban ruling

Any hope among transgender rights advocates that Justice Neil Gorsuch could enable them to eke out wins before the conservative-majority Supreme Court has faded.

That optimism sparked in 2020, with Gorsuch's decision that employers can’t fire people because they are gay or transgender.

But over the past year, in major cases implicating LGBTQ issues, the appointee of President...