{"id":1953252,"date":"2023-06-21T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-sex-change-treatments-for-minors\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:06:42","slug":"judge-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-sex-change-treatments-for-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-sex-change-treatments-for-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge halts Arkansas ban on sex-change treatments for minors."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-sex-change-treatments-for-minors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1953252&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>U.S. Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Prohibiting Sex-Change Treatments for Minors<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A U.S. judge on Tuesday struck down an <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Arkansas<\/span> law prohibiting doctors from providing sex-change treatments including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery to minors, a victory for families that had sued to challenge the law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The evidence showed that the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients and that, by prohibiting it, the state undermined the interests it claims to be advancing,&#8221; <strong>U.S. District Judge James Moody<\/strong> in Little Rock wrote in an order barring the state from enforcing the law.<\/p>\n<p>Moody had last year blocked enforcement of the law in a preliminary order while he considered the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;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,&#8221; 17-year-old plaintiff <strong>Dylan Brandt<\/strong> said in a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Brandt.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Arkansas<\/span> attorney general <strong>Tim Griffin<\/strong> said in a statement that he plans to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am disappointed in the decision that prevents our state from protecting our children against dangerous medical experimentation under the moniker of &#8216;gender transition,'&#8221; Griffin said.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Arkansas<\/span> in 2021 became the first U.S. state to <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">ban sex-change treatments<\/span> for minors. The Republican legislature passed the <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">ban<\/span> over the veto of then-governor Asa Hutchinson, also a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, a slew of other Republican-led states have passed similar laws. The measures have been challenged in court, and have so far been fully or partially blocked in states including Oklahoma, <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Arkansas<\/span>, Alabama, Indiana, and Florida.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Source:<\/h3>\n<p>(Reporting By Brendan Pierson in New York, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Sandra Maler)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. judge ruled against an Arkansas law that banned doctors from offering sex-change treatments to minors. Families who opposed the law celebrated the decision, as evidence presented in court demonstrated the positive impact of such medical care on patients&#8217; mental health and well-being. The ruling allows access to puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery for transgender minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1953253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7411,7008,4372,5387,7497,17031,8025],"class_list":["post-1953252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arkansas","tag-ban","tag-halts","tag-judge","tag-minors","tag-sex-change","tag-treatments"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}