Is This the Next Supreme Court Case on LGBTQ+ Rights?
The ruling from the Sixth Circuit is the first court decision in favor of a ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors.
July 11, 2023
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The ruling from the Sixth Circuit is the first court decision in favor of a ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors.
The same judge has blocked restrictions affecting trans youth.
This is the second defeat for Gov. Ron DeSantis's anti-LGBTQ+ agenda this week and the third this month.
A judge has already temporarily blocked the ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and now trans adults are seeking to block restrictions affecting them.
The law had been on hold until the judge could decide whether to block it while a suit against it is heard.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued its ruling Thursday, but the lawyers representing trans youth and families note that the fight is not over.
These aren't final decisions on the bans, but they can't be enforced while lawsuits against them are heard.
This follows a similar filing on a ban in Tennessee.
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Judge Robert Hinkle trashed the rationale behind Florida's ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors.
The Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful made the comment in a Time interview in which he also defended the numerous anti-LGBTQ+ laws he has supported.
Florida cannot enforce the ban on drag shows while the state appeals an earlier decision by a federal judge who ruled the ban unconstitutional.
The judge partially stopped the law from being enforced.
The families are plantiffs in one of the two lawsuits that have been brought against the Florida law.
The Orlando restaurant Hamburger Mary's, which hosts drag brunches, sued the state over the drag ban earlier this year.
A lower court had ruled that the law should be permanently blocked, but this decision reverses that.
A federal judge has ruled that a trans woman teacher forced to go by "Mr." can return to going by "Ms." and use female pronouns in the classroom.
A federal appeals court blocked enforcement of two Florida laws banning use of the practice on minors, saying they violate free speech rights, with Trump judges in the majority.
With the ruling, LGBTQ+ students are at risk of discrimination at school in the majority of states.
The Sixth Circuit had ruled similarly in a case out of Tennessee.