Federal judge blocks much of Indiana's ban on gender-affirming care for minors

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge issued an order Friday stopping an Indiana ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors from taking effect as scheduled July 1.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law, which was enacted this spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights.

The order from U.S. District Court Judge James Patrick Hanlon will allow the law’s prohibition on gender-affirming surgeries to take effect. Hanlon’s order also blocks provisions that would prohibit Indiana doctors from communicating with out-of-state doctors about gender-affirming care for their patients younger than 18.

The ACLU filed the lawsuit within hours after Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the bill April 5. The challenge, on behalf of four youths undergoing transgender treatments and an Indiana doctor who provides such care, argued the ban would violate the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection guarantees and trampled upon the rights of parents to decide medical treatment for their children.

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By TOM DAVIES
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/transgender-care-ban-indiana-lawsuit-3d9a3a456d7c0a06941f02e8998a6f56

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[bsiebs]

2. Good news... was appointed in 2018 by that indicted guy...

[republianmushroom]

3. Good

[LiberalFighter]

4. There are some in Indiana that need it. Pence, Rokita are two names come to mind.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Good People

Spending so much time, money, effort trying to undo the cancer that conservative values bring to every community.

[SouthernDem4ever]

6. Donate to the ACLU!

I do

[Initech]

7. Good, we really need to start fighting back against this shit.

Are we just going to let the MAGA conspiracy theorist nutjobs steamroll over us? Fuck no!

[IndyPepper]

8. Clear as mud

I live in Indiana and our lame-brain governor, Eric Holcomb, literally said the bill was clear as mud but signed it anyway. Not that it would have mattered since only a simple majority would have been needed to override any veto. This state is so gerrymandered that Republicans garnered 56 percent of the statewide vote for the General Assembly in the last election but came away with 74 percent of the seats.

BTW, Holcomb is the genius who once said he was against legalizing marijuana because it was illegal.

[Delphinus]

9. Welcome to DU!

(I'm also in Indiana.)

[paleotn]

10. Why are they is such a twist over it? Do they think transgender therapy is abuse?

In my mind, bringing up children in fundy religion IS abuse.

[Eugene]

12. Not raising kids according God's Plan(tm) is child abuse, the Christian right says.

It's been a long-time rallying cry on Pray TV. Now, politicians in states like Texas are enforcing that belief as official policy.

[IndyPepper]

11. Glad to be here

Thanks, Delphinus! I've been a longtime lurker and finally joined recently so I could add my 2 cents to the conversation. I'm a Hoosier native currently living in an Indy suburb. The best experience of my life was the six years I lived in Los Angeles.

Also, paleotn, you are exactly right. The right wingers lie through their teeth to defend their defenseless positions, crying that minors are too young to decide anything of importance while at the same time dragging their own children to church every Sunday to make sure they are good and indoctrinated in "Christian" values. Yes, it IS a form of child abuse.

[Pacifist Patriot]

13. Excellent!