{"id":37956,"date":"2021-07-21T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37956"},"modified":"2021-07-21T17:31:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:31:48","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-arkansas-transgender-youth-treatment-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37956","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge blocks Arkansas transgender youth treatment ban\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Arkansas law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender youth as part of the state\u2019s legal battle with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge James Moody granted a preliminary injunction for the law that punishes physicians for giving gender confirming treatment to minors and recommending other providers for such care.<\/p>\n<p>Moody, an Obama appointee to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, also denied the state&#8217;s motion to dismiss the ACLU\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Holly Dickson, the executive director of ACLU Arkansas, praised the temporary injunction\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xrjsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdvhsrbd_tmblvvhzhklczcpwbbbw.html?a=&amp;b=40883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xrjsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdvhsrbd_tmblvvhzhklczcpwbbbw.html?a%3D%26b%3D40883&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626991272859000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEOzQgQUtVzf2XuFDC4HXUs_sFqZQ\">in a statement<\/a>, saying it \u201csends a clear message to states across the country that gender-affirming care is life-saving care, and we won\u2019t let politicians in Arkansas \u2014 or anywhere else \u2014 take it away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:\u00a0<\/strong>The law, which was set to go into effect July 28, passed earlier this year after the Republican-led Arkansas legislature overrode a veto from Gov.\u00a0Asa Hutchinson\u00a0(R).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next:\u00a0<\/strong>Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (R) announced that the state will appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will aggressively defend Arkansas\u2019s law which strongly limits permanent, life-altering sex changes to adolescents,&#8221; she said in a statement. &#8220;I will not sit idly by while radical groups such as the ACLU use our children as pawns for their own social agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37957,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956\/revisions\/37957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}