The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.

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By Nicholas Confessore

Nicholas Confessore is an investigative reporter for The Times and a staff writer for the magazine. For this article, he reviewed thousands of pages of court documents and interviewed former Biden administration officials, lawyers at L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy groups and the A.C.L.U. and dozens of civil rights experts and current and former L.G.B.T.Q. activists.