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May 27, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block an Arkansas law prohibiting “sex-reassignment” surgery or hormone treatments to minors afflicted with gender confusion.
Enacted in April despite a veto from Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, the law bars physicians from performing or referring for “gender transition procedures” on residents under age 18, as well as taxpayer dollars from being spent on such procedures for minors. It encompasses “puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or other mechanisms to promote the development of feminizing or masculinizing features in the opposite biological sex, or genital or nongenital gender reassignment surgery performed for the purpose of assisting an individual with a gender transition.”
Representing four families who say their children are “transgender,” the ACLU claims that the law violates the equal-protection guarantees of the U.S. Constitution by allowing minors to undergo treatment “to help align their bodies with their (actual) gender, such as to address breast development in boys or facial hair in girls.”
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