A federal judge in the United States has struck down Arkansas’s first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states adopt similar restrictions.US District Judge Jay Moody issued a permanent injunction against the Arkansas law, which would have prohibited doctors from providing gender-affirming hormone treatment, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18.The Arkansas law, which Moody temporarily blocked in 2021, also would have prohibited doctors from referring patients elsewhere for such care. In the wake of its passage, at least 19 other states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors and nearly all of them have been challenged in court.
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