Judge Blocks Part of Alabama Law Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care
Judge Blocks Part of Alabama Law Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care
https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/5/14/judge-blocks-part-alabama-law-criminalizing-gender-affirming-care-trans-youth
A federal judge partially blocked Alabama’s law on Friday that criminalized providing gender-affirming care to trans youth.
The preliminary injunction by U.S. District Judge Liles Burke in the case of Rev. Eknes-Tucker v. Ivey prevents Alabama from implementing the ban on prescribing gender-affirming treatment including providing puberty blockers and hormone treatment to trans minors until a lawsuit against the law progresses.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bill into law last month. According to the Associated Press, she said the injunction was a “temporary legal roadblock.
The law, called the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, made it a felony for medical professionals to provide gender-affirming medication to trans minors. It also carried a prison sentence of up to 10 years. It's the first state to pass such a law.
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Not final, but still a bit of good news.