The decision also affirmed medical evidence supporting trans healthcare.
since July 2021, when Moody granted a preliminary injunction against the law.
Plaintiff Dylan Brandt, a 17-year-old trans boy, expressed gratitude in a statement released by the ACLU. “I’m so grateful the judge heard my experience of how this health care has changed my life for the better and saw the dangerous impact this law could have on my life and that of countless other transgender people,” Brandt said.
Holly Dickson, the executive director of the ACLU of Arkansas, similarly expressed relief and gratitude to the court. “This decision sends a clear message,” she said. “Fear-mongering and misinformation about this health care do not hold up to scrutiny; it hurts trans youth and must end. Science, medicine, and law are clear: gender-affirming care is necessary to ensure these young Arkansans can thrive and be healthy.
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