All laws discriminate. Laws against murder treat murderers differently than other types of people. All laws classify people like that. It's just that some classifications are legal, according to the Court, and some aren't.
Most classifications (like murderers) get standard scrutiny and are always upheld. But other classifications (race, national origin, religion) get strict scrutiny. Laws that discriminate on those bases must be very closely tailored to accomplishing a compelling state interest. In other words, you have to have a really good reason to discriminate and there had better be no other way to do it.
Gender has typically gotten a level of scrutiny in between strict and standard.
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