A federal appeals court has reinstated Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, marking the first time that such a ban has been allowed to take full effect.
After Sutton cited the aforementioned series of decisions halting multiple gender-affirming care bans around the country, he wrote: “We appreciate their perspectives, and they give us pause. But they do not eliminate our doubts about the ultimate strength of the challengers’ claims.”
“Nonetheless,” Geidner pointed out, “Sutton was okay with his court being the sole one in the nation toDissenting Judge Helene White said that she would have limited Richardson’s statewide injunction so that it applied only to the plaintiffs and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center where they sought care. But unlike Sutton and Thapar, White sided with the many judges who have ruled in similar cases, writing that “the law discriminates based on sex” and “is likely unconstitutional.
As discussed at the outset, Tennessee is now allowed to enforce S.B. 1, barring any further court orders.ACLU lawyer working on several challenges to anti-trans laws nationwide, including Tennessee’s — told Geidner that “things are moving quickly and for many families, waiting for legal relief is not an option. The untenable position that adolescents, their caregivers, and their doctors have been put in is not only illegal, but also deeply unethical and dangerous.
When asked whether the challengers would try to get the stay lifted, either by the full Sixth Circuit or the U.S. Supreme Court, Strangio stated, “We are still evaluating all our options with our primary concern of course being how can we help ensure that people in Tennessee are not cut off from the care they need.”Meanwhile, Kentucky falls within the Sixth Circuit. In a Saturday
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