AR Times: “In 2021, Arkansas became the first state in the nation to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Little Rock struck down that 2021 ban, ensuring the state’s transgender young people can continue to receive the medical treatments they need.
U.S. District Judge James Moody determined Arkansas’s law to ban the medical treatments violates the Constitutional rights of transgender youth, their families and doctors. Arkansas’s ban violated the Equal Protection Clause, the Due Process Clauses, and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Moody found.
Moody issued a stay on the ban in July of 2021, meaning the law has never gone into effect, but today’s ruling scraps it entirely.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said he plans to appeal Moody’s decision to the Eighth Circuit.”