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Appeals court allows Arkansas to enforce gender-affirming care ban
The Eighth Circuit ruled 8-2 that Arkansas' SAFE Act does not discriminate based on sex and protects minors from experimental medical procedures, aligning with recent Supreme Court precedent.
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld Arkansas’s SAFE Act in an 8-2 decision, allowing enforcement of the law.
- In 2021, the Republican-led Arkansas Legislature overrode Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto to enact the SAFE Act, which was later blocked by U.S. District Judge James ‘Jay’ Moody and reversed by the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday.
- The court reasoned that Arkansas has a compelling interest in protecting minors’ health, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling upholding Tennessee’s similar ban, according to U.S. Circuit Judge Duane Benton.
- Opponents immediately condemned the decision, with Holly Dickson describing it as 'a tragically unjust result' that harms transgender Arkansans, and Rylie Couch warned of 'dead children'.
- Across the country, more than half the states now ban gender-affirming procedures for minors, following the Supreme Court’s Tennessee decision earlier this year.
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Circuit Court Supports Law on Minimum Age for Gender-Related Treatments
A full circuit court has affirmed Arkansas’s law that bans medical professionals from performing body-altering gender transition procedures on minors. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit delivered the ruling on Tuesday, upholding the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, or Act 626.
Court Upholds State Ban on Transing Kids.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: A federal appeals court overturned a block on an Arkansas law prohibiting transgender medical procedures for minors, allowing the legislation to take effect.WHO WAS INVOLVED: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Arkansas lawmakers, and Republican officials, including Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.WHEN & WHERE: The ruling was issued on August 12 and pertains to Ar…
Another Court Lets Another State Keep Cruel Ban on Trans Youth Health Care
In 2023, a district judge blocked Arkansas’s SAFE Act (SB49), a policy that banned transgender treatment for minors, ruling it unconstitutional. But in an act of lawfare on Tuesday, a federal court reversed the injunction–and upheld the ban in an 8-2 ruling. The “Save Adolescents from Experimentation” legislation, originally passed in 2021, prohibits doctors from providing gender-affirming treatments to Arkansans under 18. While the bill was in…
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