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USA: Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Banning Gender Transition Care for Minors

web.archive.org Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Banning Gender Transition Care for Minors

The case had been closely watched as an important test of whether bans on transition care for minors, enacted by more than a dozen states, could withstand challenges.

Judge James M. Moody Jr. of Federal District Court in Little Rock said the law both discriminated against transgender people and violated the constitutional rights of doctors. He also said that the state of Arkansas had failed to substantially prove a number of its claims, including that the care was experimental or carelessly prescribed to teenagers.

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