Sat Oct 7, 2023 – 2:28 pm EDTSat Oct 7, 2023 – 2:35 pm EDT
TULSA, Oklahoma (LifeSiteNews) — U.S. District Judge John Heil issued a preliminary ruling on Thursday allowing Oklahoma to enforce its ban on gender “transitioning” drugs and surgeries for minors, on the assessment that the law’s challengers were not likely to succeed on the merits.
In May, Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law SB 613, which states that health care providers “shall not knowingly provide gender transition procedures to any child,” violators of which would face up to ten years in prison, $100,000 in fines, and/or loss of their medical licenses.
Exceptions would be permitted for rare cases of developmental disorders and physical injuries or diseases that threaten a minor’s life, and those already taking puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones are to be tapered off over a six-month period.
The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Lambda Legal sued the state over the law on behalf of families who claimed it was “discriminatory” and violated the right of parents to seek their preferred medical treatment for their children, Reuters reports. But Heil found their arguments unlikely to prevail.
SB
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors