Early Transgender Care Challenge Wins Falter at Appeals Courts

Federal courts grappling with challenges to state transgender care bans are diverging on whether such bans run afoul of constitutional rights.

District courts have temporarily blocked bans in at least seven states, but two appeals courts are drawing narrower boundaries around US Supreme Court precedents. Those decisions, combined with a ruling from a different appeals court last year upholding a pause on one ban, make it increasingly likely that the issue will wind up before the high court.

“There’s a brewing circuit split,” Elana Redfield, federal policy director of the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles Law ...