Families and Doctors Sue Over Trans Health Care Ban in Alabama
signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey last week, threatens health care professionals with up to 10 years in prison for violation.
It prohibits doctors from prescribing hormone treatment to trans youth and bans gender-affirming surgery on minors — though such surgeries are mostly unheard of.
The law also forces schools to tell a student's parents or guardians if a student's gender identity is different from that assigned at birth.Two doctors and two families with transgender children filed suit Monday in U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. They are represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Human Rights Campaign with King & Spalding LLP and Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC.The new law’s “prohibitions on the provision of safe, effective, and medically necessary care for transgender minors lack a rational foundation and serve no legitimate purpose,” their suit states.
