Georgia Retains Ability to Enforce Ban on Minors’ Trans Care

Georgia’s ban on minors’ access to gender-affirming medical treatments will remain in place until the US Supreme Court decides whether a similar ban in another state likely violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.

Judge Sarah E. Geraghty, of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, on Sept. 13 paused a lawsuit over the provision’s constitutionality pending US Supreme Court review of a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that presents the same issue. The justices are expected to rule by the end of June 2025 on whether Tennessee’s substantially similar law ...