North Carolina’s Gender-Affirming Care Ban Targeted in Suit (1)

Transgender youths, their parents, caregivers, and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups sued North Carolina officials Wednesday to stop enforcement of a law that bans health-care professionals from providing gender-affirming care to young people.

The law, passed in August over Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) veto, “has been devastating for North Carolina families with a transgender adolescent,” the plaintiffs say. Transgender youths’ inability to obtain evidence-based, well-researched, and widely accepted medical care for gender dysphoria—a serious medical condition caused by a mismatch between a person’s sex assigned at birth and their gender—could lead to anxiety, depression, and suicide, they say in a complaint filed ...