State Anti-Trans Laws Aimed at Minors Flounder in Federal Court

A recent series of federal court decisions blocking states’ enforcement of bans on gender-affirming care for minors demonstrate that the laws can’t stand up against constitutional challenges, attorneys who represent transgender people told Bloomberg Law.

An attorney on the other side, however, doesn’t think all the decisions will stand once the appeals courts weigh in. There undoubtedly will be a circuit split and, possibly, a fast-tracked appeal to the US Supreme Court, said Sarah Parshall Perry, senior legal fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation.

So far, though, federal courts ...