Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee temporarily blocked portions of bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth Wednesday, handing down the rulings shortly before the statutes were set to go into effect.
In both Kentucky and Tennessee, the judges blocked portions of the law that would have banned transgender youth from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapy. In the Tennessee case, the judge stopped short of also blocking the ban on gender-affirming surgeries for youth.
Hartman added that transgender children and their families were"living in fear" of the approaching date for the restrictions. "If Tennessee wishes to regulate access to certain medical procedures, it must do so in a manner that does not infringe on the rights conferred by the United States Constitution, which is of course supreme to all other laws of the land," Richardson wrote.
Tennessee's Republican-dominant General Assembly, as well as some Democratic lawmakers, quickly advanced the ban after Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center was accused of opening its transgender health clinic because it was profitable. Videos surfaced of a doctor at the private hospital touting that gender-affirming procedures are"huge money makers." Another video showed a staffer saying anyone with a religious objection should quit.
Beshear originally vetoed the measure in March, saying it allows"too much government interference in personal healthcare issues" but the state's GOP-dominated legislature overrode the veto.
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