Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that Arkansas will “fight” a federal judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s ban on gender transition procedures for minors.
U.S. District Judge Jay Moody, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, issued a permanent injunction against the Arkansas law on Tuesday, declaring the state’s ban on gender transition procedures unconstitutional.
The procedures, also known as “gender-affirming care,” include cross-sex hormone therapies, puberty blockers, and irreversible surgeries to remove sex organs. Arkansas’s law aimed to prohibit doctors from providing such treatments to anyone under the age of 18.
Arkansas’s Republican governor expressed her view that the state’s ban was about protecting children and declared her intention to challenge the permanent injunction….