Arkansas Transgender Care Ban Upheld by Full Eighth Circuit (2)

Arkansas didn’t violate the constitutional rights of minors, their parents, and medical providers by banning gender-dysphoria treatments for the youths, a federal appeals court said.

The full US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit overturned a lower court’s ruling that struck down the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, holding that the law didn’t infringe the equal protection rights of minors or the due process rights of their parents.

The Tuesday en banc ruling comes two months after a divided US Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law that outlawed certain medical treatments for transgender children, preserving similar measures in two ...