District Judge Jay Moody issued a permanent injunction against the Arkansas law.
Dylan Brandt testified in October that the hormone therapy he has received has transformed his life and that the ban would force him to leave the state. | Andrew DeMillo/AP PhotoLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional Tuesday, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states adopt similar restrictions.
In his order, Moody ruled that the prohibition violated the due process and equal protection rights of transgender youth and families. He said the law also violated the First Amendment rights of medical providers by prohibiting them from referring patients elsewhere. The ruling affects only the Arkansas ban but may carry implications for the fates of similar prohibitions, or discourage attempts to enact them, in other states.
Children’s hospitals around the country have faced harassment and threats of violence for providing such care.
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