Alabama Families Continue to Appeal to Block Transgender Care Ban
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled the ban can go into effect. The families want a rehearing by the full court.
September 13, 2023
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled the ban can go into effect. The families want a rehearing by the full court.
The state's Senate approved a bill Monday and the House had passed it earlier this month, so it now goes to Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
Officials with the clinic, which has served LGBTQ+ Bostonians since 1971, say they made the move to avoid losing federal funding under the anti-trans Trump administration.
The legislation would ban hormone treatment, puberty blockers, and gender-confirmation surgery for minors.
The law, banning hormone treatment and puberty blockers as well as gender-affirming surgeries, was set to go into effect July 28.
The state is just the latest one to pass such an anti-trans law.
The study comes at a time when opponents of this care have often exaggerated how common it is.
Lawmakers in Florida are currently considering legislation that would codify the rules that are now being challenged in court.
Gender-affirming care is banned for transgender youth when it's mainly cisgender people who use it, and when it has a significantly lower regret rate than all other major surgeries, tattoos, and children.
The reports seem to suggest further advances in the field of gender-affirming care can address shortcomings of treatments available today.
There is "quite good evidence" that people have benefited from the care, says scientist Gordon Guyatt.
The study also found that almost 150,000 trans youth live in states that protect transgender rights.
The threat was one of several made against the hospital following accusations of genital surgeries on minors.
Vivian Wilson said that before her transition, her father would often berate her as a young child for acting femininely.
House Bill 156 would define gender-affirming care to be "not in the best interest" of youth in the state. The bill affects guardianships, custody fights, and child protective services.
Did the Skrmetti ruling give states carte blanche to discriminate against all transgender people?
The new law also redefines sex, threatens doctors with the loss of their medical licenses, and allows minors to sue in court.
“The Heath Care Ban violates the constitutional rights of Tennessee adolescents and their parents, and — if it goes into effect — will cause severe and irreparable harm,” the complaint says.
A new post on the White House website calls this care "chemical and surgical mutilation" and "immoral, unjust, and disproven practices." None of that is true.
It's now the 20th state to ban gender-affirming care for minors.
As in the 1930s, opposition to trans medicine today is part of a broad reactionary movement against what some far-right groups consider the “toxic normalization” of LGBTQ people.