AL Political Reporter: “Civil and LGBTQ legal rights advocates announced they have filed a legal challenge in federal district court against Alabama SB184, which criminalizes the medical treatment of minors experiencing gender dysphoria.
The doctors challenging SB184 in Ladinsky v. Ivey are Dr. Morissa J. Ladinsky and Dr. Hussein D. Abdul-Latif, both providers at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama and members of the medical staff at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital and the teaching staff at UAB School of Medicine. Under SB184, they both face criminal penalties including up to 10 years in prison if they continue to provide medical treatment to transgender children.
“By signing SB184 Governor Ivey has told kind, loving, and loyal Alabama families that they cannot stay here without denying their children the basic medical care they need,” Ladinsky said. “She has undermined the health and well-being of Alabama children and put doctors like me in the horrifying position of choosing between ignoring the medical needs of our patients or risking being sent to prison.”
The Alabama family plaintiffs are proceeding anonymously to protect their children, the plaintiffs said in a statement Monday. They include Robert Roe, and his 13-year-old transgender daughter Mary, of Jefferson County; and Jane Doe and her 17-year-old-transgender son John, of Shelby County.”