Alabama Gets Go-Ahead to Enforce Minors’ Transgender Care Ban

Alabama’s ban on certain gender-affirming care for minors will take effect while an appeals court decides whether all its active judges will hear arguments in the case.

In a one-page order, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday halted an injunction that had prevented the state from enforcing the law. The provision was the second in the nation to bar the use of puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones for treating gender dysphoria in young people. There are now 22 states that prohibit some form of gender-affirming care.

The appeals court didn’t give its reasons for staying ...