Little Rock: A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily prevented the enforcement of Arkansas’s prohibition on treatment that confirmed the gender for the transgender youth while the lawsuit challenged the prohibition process.
Union Liberties Civil American filed a lawsuit in May to ask the US district judge Jay Moody in Little Rock to attack the law that made Arkansas first country to ban doctors from providing hormone treatment that confirmed gender, pubertase blocking or sex assignment surgery to anyone year old, or From referring them to other providers for the treatment.
ACLU eases the preliminary order while the lawsuit continues.
Moody found that the plaintiff tended to succeed with their challenges and what enabled it would hurt the transgender youth currently receiving treatment.
“To draw this attention in the middle of this patient, or underage children, will cause irreparable damage,” Moody said.
The law has come into effect on July 28.
ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of four transgender youth and their families, as well as two doctors who provided care that confirmed gender.
The lawsuit believes that the prohibition will be very damaging to the transgender youth in the state and violating their constitutional rights.
“This verdict sends a clear message to countries throughout the country that treatments that affirm gender are saving care, and we will not allow politicians in Arkansas – or elsewhere – take it,” said Holly Dickson, executive director of ACLU Arkansas.
A lawyer for ACLU said the ban forced several families to consider the revocation of their homes to move to other countries where care was legal.
“This treatment has given me the belief that I don’t know I have,” Dylan Brandt, a 15-year-old transgender boy from Greenwood, who is one of the Plaintiffs, told a press conference after the verdict.
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Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a republican, said he planned to appeal the decision.
“I will aggressively defend Arkansas’s law, which greatly limits permanent sex change, changing life in adolescents,” Rutledge said.
“I won’t sit still with a temporary radical group like ACLU uses our children as a pawn for their own social agenda.” Moody took out the verdict shortly after hearing the argument from legal and state around one and a half hours.
The judge appeared skeptical against the state’s argument that the ban targeting procedures, not transgender people.
For example, he questioned why small children born as men must be allowed to receive testosterone but not a woman born “How did you justify giving it to one gender but not others and did not call it sex discrimination?” Moody asked.
Arkansas argues that the state has a legitimate interest in prohibiting procedures for minors.
Republical lawyers General of 17 countries asked Moody to enforce the ban.
Some major medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, submitted a Brief with the court challenging the ban.
The State Chamber of Commerce and Family Foundation Walton, which was founded by Walmart’s founder-based relatives, also asked the court to block the ban.