WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government no longer backs transgender minors and their families in Tennessee who are challenging a state ban on gender-affirming care, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court Friday.

While it was once rare for an administration to change its position in cases before the high court, Trump did so in his first term and has signaled he will do it again.

"The Department has now determined that SB1 does not deny equal protection on account of sex or any other characteristic," a top lawyer in the U.S. solicitor general's office told the U.S. Supreme Court Friday.