Georgia Gets Go-Ahead to Enforce Gender-Affirming Care Ban

A federal judge in Georgia temporarily halted an order that had allowed minors to continue accessing certain types of gender dysphoria care despite a state ban.

The US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia’s Aug. 20 injunction prohibiting the ban’s enforcement pending trial couldn’t remain in place because its governing appeals court specifically rejected arguments Judge Sarah E. Geraghty previously found persuasive, she said Tuesday.

Geraghty said her only choice at this point was to let the law take effect, at least until the possibility that the full Eleventh Circuit would rehear Eknes-Tucker v. Gov. of Alabama has ...