Arkansas cannot enforce ban on gender-affirming care for trans kids, court rules
by Reuters in Little Rock, Arkansas from US news | The Guardian on (#62XC0)
Federal appeals court affirms ruling stopping state enforcing 2021 law before trial on possible permanent block in October
A federal appeals court on Thursday said Arkansas cannot enforce its ban on transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care.
A three-judge panel of the eighth US circuit court of appeals affirmed a ruling temporarily stopping the state enforcing the 2021 law. A trial is scheduled in October before the same judge on whether to permanently block the law.
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