Indiana Ban on Transgender Treatments for Minors Can Be Enforced, Court Rules

Published on February 28, 2024

An appeals court reversed a district court ruling against an Indiana law seeking to ban gender transition procedures for minors, allowing the regulations to come into effect. In April last year, Indiana Governor Eric Halcomb signed into law SB 480 prohibiting physicians and other medical practitioners from knowingly offering “gender transition procedures” to individuals below the age of 18, even if there was parental consent. The bill was set to become law in July. But in June, a federal district judge blocked portions of the law banning puberty blockers and hormone treatments after a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). It allowed the ban on gender transition surgeries....

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