HB 1570 was the first law passed in the U.S. that would ban doctors from prescribing treatment for the purposes of gender transition for minors. Now it’s being challenged in court.
The fate of necessary health care for transgender teenagers in Arkansas is to be decided in a court case starting next week.
“If the law was struck down? We would celebrate in the streets,” Brandi Evans, the mother of a transgender teenager, told The Daily BeastEvans’ son Andrew is 17, meaning if he were to suddenly lose access to all his care, the family has begun to make plans to prepare for the next year of his ongoing medical transition before he is legally allowed to make medical decisions on his own.
Contrary to many narratives around gender-affirming care, he did not start Hormone Replacement Therapy right away. In fact, Phoenix’s first health-care provider was targeted by lawsuits, forcing the family to relocate to another clinic in order to continue his medical transition. “We have 98 percent of young people who had gender dysphoria,” said Rutledge. “That they are able to move past that and once they had the help that they need, no longer suffer from gender dysphoria.”are part of a broader reactionary backlash to transgender rights, which this case hopes to provide legal precedent to halt, Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice, ACLU, said in a conference call.
The results of the trial will almost certainly be appealed, Strangio said. While Cooper said it was too early to determine what a positive verdict would mean for similar laws around the country. Currently, the case is being tried in District Court, meaning a verdict would apply state-wide, and the initial appeal would only be in the Eighth Circuit, which covers the Dakotas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas.
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