Tennessee Gets OK to Enforce Ban on Transgender Care for Minors (1)

A federal appeals court Saturday gave the state of Tennessee the go-ahead to enforce temporarily a state law that bans gender-affirming care for minors.

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s motion for an emergency stay of a lower court’s injunction that had blocked the enforcement of S.B. 1. The law, which prohibits health-care providers from performing gender-affirming surgeries and administering hormones or puberty blockers to transgender minors, was scheduled to go into effect July 1.

The Tennessee law is among roughly 20 laws across the US that seek to limit ...