Georgia can resume ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth, judge says
The US state of Georgia can resume its ban on hormone replacement therapy for trangender people under the age of 18, a judge ruled on Tuesday, 5 September.
It comes after US District Judge Sarah Geraghty two weeks ago blocked enforcement of the law after determining that a group of parents and trans minors would probably succeed in arguing that it violated the Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection.
However, after a three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower-court ruling blocking a similar law in Alabama, Judge Geraghty has stated that Senate Bill 140 can go back into effect in Georgia.
The panel in Alabama was made up entirely of judges appointed by Republican presidents. READ MORE: Texas Supreme Court allows ban on gender-affirming care to take effect In the wake of the ruling, Chris Carr, Georgia’s Republican attorney general, urged Geraghty to vacate her injunction.
