Wed Sep 6, 2023 – 5:25 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A federal judge is allowing Georgia to enforce its ban on “gender-reassignment” surgeries and cross-sex hormones for minors in light of a federal appeals court weighing in on the legal question last month.
In March, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law Senate Bill 140, which bans physicians from prescribing “cross-sex” hormones and surgical procedures to individuals under age 18 for gender dysphoria. The law, less stringent than others of its kind, does not ban puberty blockers.
The Hill reported that last month that Judge Sarah Geraghty temporarily blocked the law from being enforced, writing that otherwise “the middle-school age plaintiffs will be unable to obtain in Georgia a course of treatment that has been recommended by their health care providers in light of their individual diagnoses and mental health needs.”
However, a day after Geraghty issued her ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a similar law in Alabama, with Judge Barbara Lagoa ruling that a lower court in that case had “abused its discretion in issuing this preliminary injunction because it applied the wrong standard of scrutiny,” and
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