Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld a temporary order Moody issued earlier against the ban. Arkansas’ attorney general has said he plans to appeal Moody’s decision to the 8th U.S. Proponents of the bans said they’re not worried about the Arkansas decision, saying it’s an early ruling in what’s expected to be a long legal fight over the restrictions. In both rulings, the judge has said that “gender identity is real.” The same federal judge this week also struck down Florida’s rule denying Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care. The judge who blocked Florida from enforcing its ban on three children who sued was appointed by President Bill Clinton. Moody was appointed by President Barack Obama, and bans have been temporarily blocked by federal judges in Alabama and Indiana who were appointed by President Donald Trump. “There are two big problems with these laws: One is that they don’t necessarily survive constitutional scrutiny and the other is that they are based on very bad science,” said Elana Redfield, federal policy director for the Williams Institute at the the UCLA School of Law.Īdvocates said they’re also encouraged that the rulings so far on the medical bans have come from judges appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents.
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