A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to reconsider a temporary block on Arkansas’s enforcement of a ban on sex change procedures for minors. This means the ban continues to be blocked until a federal trial concludes.
The decision comes while a federal bench trial that is being heard by U.S. District Judge James Moody Jr. related to the matter is on hold until Nov. 28.
That trial will decide whether or not to permanently block or uphold the state’s law that bans transgender procedures for minors.
The 2021 law in question is called the Arkansas Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act, which has been challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing four minors and two doctors….