Rights of trans minors: Arkansas law is void

Federal judge annul – rescind On Tuesday, the state of Arkansas passed a law prohibiting minors from transgender processing. It’s a ruling the first of its kind in a country where 19 Republican-run states are trying to prevent minors from getting hormonal or surgical treatments for gender transition.

In an 80-page decision, Judge James Mood found that Arkansas law discriminated against transgender people and violated doctors’ constitutional rights. He also argued that this conservative country failed to substantiate a number of its claims, including that care was experimental or prescribed carelessly for adolescents.

“Rather than protecting children or upholding medical ethics, the evidence has shown that prohibited Medicare improves the mental health and well-being of patients, and that by prohibiting it, the state undermines the interests it claims to defend,” Justice James Moody wrote, nominated by Barack Obama and endorsed by the House of Representatives. Elders a lot. “Moreover, the various assertions that underlie the state’s arguments that the law protects children and upholds medical ethics do not explain why the prohibition covers only gender-affirming Medicare — and all gender-affirming Medicare.”

In Florida and Alabama, federal judges recently blocked enforcement of laws that prevent minors from engaging with transsexuals. In his decision, the Florida federal judge cast a scathing look at local elected officials by concluding that the plaintiffs — the families — had “every chance of winning” in their argument about the law’s unconstitutionality and that “the terms were an exercise in politics, not good medicine.”

But an Arkansas federal judge, who had already suspended the disputed law in 2021, is the first to declare such an action unconstitutional. Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed the state would appeal the decision. “It’s not about sponsorship, it’s about activists pushing a political agenda at the expense of our children,” she said in a statement.

This debate will surely end one day before the Supreme Court of the United States.

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