Several states, including Louisiana, Sweden, Ohio, and Texas, have enacted laws or are planning to challenge laws that restrict or ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. These laws disrupt the healthcare needs of trans and nonbinary individuals, with Texas being one of over a dozen states with such restrictions. The ACLU of Ohio plans to file a lawsuit challenging the ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, while the Texas Supreme Court is hearing arguments for and against a law that bans hormone therapies and puberty blockers for minors under 18. The debate involves conservative advocacy organizations praising the laws as a method to regulate and effectively ban medical healthcare for trans minors, while attorneys with Lambda Legal and Transgender Law Center argue that these laws will do significant harm to trans minors.
After Gov. Greg Abbott signed the measure barring transgender Texas youth from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapies, some of their families filed a lawsuit seeking to block the law from going into effect. https://t.co/anF7Sk0EfG
Now, attorneys with Lambda Legal and Transgender Law Center are reiterating arguments that SB 14 will do significant harm to trans minors. https://t.co/R2DswDwubS https://t.co/yzpvfAlXQm
WATCH: ACLU holds press conference after Texas Supreme Court hears case on ban of gender-affirming care for minors. https://t.co/ukzyOEffhE
Outside the courtroom, Texas Values, a conservative advocacy organization, is praising SB 14 as a method to regulate and effectively ban medical healthcare for trans minors. https://t.co/LMfNiwQ9Rq https://t.co/yzpvfAlXQm
It all comes down to transition-related care, which state allows it and which doesn't. Texas is one of over a dozen other states with laws that restrict minors' access to this kind of care. https://t.co/K7akxIHmZe
The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments for and against SB 14, which bans hormone therapies and puberty blockers from minors under the age of 18. https://t.co/n3yKfvOIK6
The ACLU of Ohio is preparing a lawsuit challenging the state law, recently passed by an override of Gov. Mike DeWine's veto, that bans pediatric gender-transition treatment and restricts participation in girls and women's sports to biological females. https://t.co/Kl4qkAJtw3
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio says it plans to file a lawsuit challenging a new state law that bans gender-affirming health care for transgender minors https://t.co/sLjPdyIeL0 https://t.co/fj0NL9Tx9r
Sweden placed strict limitations on medical gender-affirming intervention for minors after a 14-year-old girl was found to have osteoporosis and spinal fractures from puberty blockers. The investigation concluded that “the risks of anti-puberty and hormone treatment for those…
Louisiana is one of 22 other states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for minors, disrupting health care needs for trans and nonbinary people. https://t.co/r442JDrGM7