A federal appeals court has reinstated an Arkansas law banning transgender procedures for individuals younger than 18 years of age.
On Aug. 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled 8–2 in Brandt v. Griffin, overturning a lower court ruling that held the law was unconstitutional. The circuit court found the law does not discriminate on the basis of sex.
In 2021, the Arkansas General Assembly enacted the Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act, which forbade health care professionals from providing “gender transition procedures to minors.” The statute also prohibited those professionals from referring minors for those procedures, according to the new majority opinion in the case known as Brandt v. Griffin….