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Federal judge strikes down Arkansas' ban on gender-affirming treatment for trans youth

www.cnn.com Federal judge strikes down Arkansas' ban on gender-affirming treatment for trans youth | CNN Politics

A federal judge on Tuesday struck down Arkansas’ ban on gender-affirming treatment for transgender youth, dealing the strongest blow yet to a state prohibition on such care.

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  • This is the right outcome for this court case. There is no conceivable way to interpret the equal protection clause that supports a ban on gender affirming care, especially in light of analysis that targeting trans people is specifically gender discrimination. If the care is available for a person, but for their gender, it seems plainly obvious that the discrimination is based on gender and doesn't, in my view, even meet a rational basis analysis, let alone the slightly heightened analysis for gender discrimination.

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