On Wednesday morning, a Nashville teenager and her parents filed into the U.S. Supreme Court along with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and ranking Republican lawmakers. They filled its wooden benches as the nation's top justices heard arguments in a case that could have wide-reaching impacts across the country.

The scene outside the U.S. Supreme Court where the nation’s justices debated equal protection for transgender young people on Wednesday turned chaotic. As hundreds of people rallied in support of transgender rights,